Happy New Year!
As a New Year gift I’ve released sources of StarchartJs under MIT license.
StarchartJs going open source
December 31st, 2011 by Ivan BoldyrevGoing to Sibastro-2011
September 16th, 2011 by Ivan BoldyrevWeather forecast is promising.
Bye-bye!
Sibastro 2011
August 10th, 2011 by Ivan BoldyrevThe 6th Siberian Astronomical Forum Sibastro will be held on 16-18th of September 2011.
Hooray!
Lunar eclipse of 16th of June 2011
June 16th, 2011 by Ivan BoldyrevVery 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
April 13th, 2011 by Ivan BoldyrevYesterday 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).
Happy Cosmonautics Day and Yuri’s Night!
April 12th, 2011 by Ivan BoldyrevToday my fellow Andrey and I will bring out telescopes to show Sun and Moon to schoolchildren at city museum.
ESO’s Hidden Tresures Contest: congratulations to Igor Chekalin, Russia
January 14th, 2011 by Ivan BoldyrevMy congratulations to Russian astrophotographer Igor Chekalin, winner of ESO’s Hidden Treasures 2010 competition. You may see his artwork.
Igor visited SibAstro event twice and conducted workshops on astrophotography (unfortunately, I haven’t managed to visit them). But I know him personally anyway, as I bought his optical finder for my dob and we met on SibAstro 2009 🙂
Berd river on APOD :)
January 12th, 2011 by Ivan BoldyrevThere is a nice eclipse photo by Aleksandr Yuferev published recently on APOD: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110107.html.
Description states that it was made from the bank of Berd river. Berdsk, the town where I live, is named after Berd river 🙂
Unfortunately, I don’t know Aleksandr personally, but I suspect he is rather photographer than astronomer 🙂
Eclipse photos
January 5th, 2011 by Ivan Boldyrev
Solar eclipse on sunset in Berdsk, Novosibirsk region, Russia
Zoom from the above image.
Solar eclipse today
January 4th, 2011 by Ivan BoldyrevI will observe it with my friend on top of high building.
Eclipse will be on sunset at our location.
Outdoor temperature is about -35C (-31F), sky is almost clear.
