Lo-tech astronomy and improving bikepacking skills
Another clear night so I tried again on the 31st of March. The transparency was a bit better but not much. I could see the mag 5 stars but the mag 6 stars remained...
… that quote sums up the conditions on this clear night. Transparency was horrible. Mag 5 stars where hard to detect and so doing an easy starhop was nearly impossible. (I do not have...
I stayed on the island of Ameland for a couple of days this week. Out of 4 nights no less than three were clear. Unfortunately no room for the 8″ telescope so I brought...
Three days of clear (enough) weather in The Netherlands somehow means there’s also a moon out. We haven’t seen a new moon in about 3 months now. But I needed to testdrive my dobson...
Not much going on right now when it comes to astronomy. Biking, working, family and studying are more important to me at the moment. But still… there’s a robotic telescope on Tenerife I can...
Rejoice for I got my primary mirror back! The new coating did not turn out perfectly. #sadpanda Something’s wrong with the coating but what exactly is going on is unknown. It looks like oxidation...
I printed out my digital copy of Objects In The Heavens, sixth edition. Got it in the mail a few days ago. Especially the section on the Moon and what to see during it’s...
This year’s Perseids were not visible in The Netherlands due to lots of clouds. I had better luck because I was in the Belgian Ardennes region on a pretty dark campsite. It’s on a...
From Thursday the 2nd of August til Saturday the 4th I had the opportunity for a bikepack. I couldn’t go far so it ended up being a sort of backyard bikepack in my local...
Quick session in a field near Renkum through a 10×50 which I brought along on a 3-day bikepack trip: M13 – easily found. Big! M3 – hard to find because it was in the...
On the 28th of July I visited the Lunar eclipse meeting the public observatory Sterrenwacht Midden-Nederland organised in a field near Leusden, South of Amersfoort. I am a member of the board there but...