The Very Black Hole

New comets on map

Ivan Boldyrev — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:39:17 +0000

I’ve added to map C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) and C/2012 S1 (ISON). See http://www.skyandme.com.

Patrick Moore died

Ivan Boldyrev — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:54:54 +0000

Today

Novosibirsk Astrophysical center (“Large Planetarium”)

Ivan Boldyrev — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 06:22:31 +0000

There was a Planetarium day celebration at Large Planetarium on 24 of March. This a view from Foucault pendulum tower:

The day was windy and rainy, but about 500 people (as estimated by one of Center’s employee) attended the event.

Novosibirsk Astrophysical Center was open today

Ivan Boldyrev — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:10:10 +0000

“Astophysical” means here “related to both astronomy and physics”, not “related to astrophysics”. This an educational center with planetarium, observatory, meteo station, Foucault pendulum etc.

Observatory has 360mm Ritchey–Chrétien by Astrosib and 200mm APOLAR refractor by NPZ.

See video at Russia 1 channel.

Meeting with amateur astronomers is planned tomorrow, and I am invited too, but cannot participate because of health problems

Upd:

New StarchartJS demo

Ivan Boldyrev — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:33:39 +0000

Now you can select your location with Google Maps:
http://www.skyandme.com/dev/starchartjs/.

Selected coordinates are remembered by browser if localStorage is available.

StarchartJs going open source

Ivan Boldyrev — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:16:12 +0000

Happy New Year!

As a New Year gift I’ve released sources of StarchartJs under MIT license.

https://bitbucket.org/monoid/starchartjs/overview

Going to Sibastro-2011

Ivan Boldyrev — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 07:54:05 +0000

Weather forecast is promising.

Bye-bye!

Sibastro 2011

Ivan Boldyrev — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 05:35:36 +0000

The 6th Siberian Astronomical Forum Sibastro will be held on 16-18th of September 2011.

http://www.sibastro.ru

Hooray!

Lunar eclipse of 16th of June 2011

Ivan Boldyrev — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 06:00:54 +0000

Very sleepy after observing eclipse whole night. I tried to make some photos, by my cheap cam gave me very poor images.

I also observed two passes of ISS during the eclipse. It seems it was first time when I do planned ISS observation

As January solar eclipse was at sunset, this eclipse was at “moonset”.

I was observing with binocular and telescope sitting on a sofa on parent’s balcony

New old book

Ivan Boldyrev — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:46:42 +0000

Yesterday I received copy of “Observing Earth Satellites” by Desmond King-Hele (1982). It was advised on SeeSat list, and I found a copy affordable for me.

Yesterday event was successful. Andrey’s 75mm refractor displayed nice images of Sun with spots, and my 130mm reflector displayed the rising Moon. The Moon was low-contrast on daylight sky, but children enjoyed it anyway (though some were unable to spot it, but many managed to see lunar maria).