ISS Jupiter Moon

ISS passing by Jupiter, Moon at 17:17 MEZ

exposures 1/3s at ISO 800

Combination of 12 exposures  from this slideshow

Almost total eclipse cruise

Almost booked and 100 percent satisfied.

In June, 2012 my eclipse buddy Christian found this ad by P&O Cruises which looked like a bargain.  He almost completed booking, stumbled on insecure online payment procedures with "Bestcruises".

In hindsight, that saved us a lot of money and annoyance.
"Late arrival wrecks eclipse cruise. A special cruise ship set up to view the total eclipse ended in total disaster"
Cruise Ship Law Blog

Telegraph
Perthnow

Solar eclipse cruise message thread on cruisecritic  and here


Total eclipse of a cruise for P&O - Thursday, 15 November 2012

P&O Cruises on Facebook:
"Pacific Jewel and Pacific Dawn were in perfect position to view today’s total eclipse of the sun in northern Australia!"
Actually, from the Pacific Dawn just offshore from Pt. Douglas, viewing conditions were suboptimal, clouds during totality.

ISS passing through Zenith

ISS passage 19:27 -19:28

Mission Zukunft

Mission Zukunft  - Von Baden-Württemberg ins All
2. Raumfahrttag am 05.10.2012 im Haus der Wirtschaft, Stuttgart

More pics

1 List-Saal

2 List-Saal

3 Schülerwettbewerb

4 Rolf-Jürgen Ahlers, Astronaut Reinhold Ewald

Golden Gate of the Ecliptic

Moon and Jupiter in the Golden Gate of the Ecliptic
together with airplane trail

Animated gif, 4 exposures 5 sec each

2012 Oct 05 01h 16m MESZ

Exposure 5 sec, ISO 1600, Lumix G3

Der Ahnert

Heute und damals - Paul Ahnert 's Astronomisches Jahrbuch

Druckfrisch , mein Twittergewinn von Sterne und Weltraum

1988, 40. Jahrgang zum 90. Geburtstag von Paul Ahnert

1988

1988

1989, Redakteur Reiner Luthardt

1989, Vorwort Luthardt

Anaglyphs of Gale crater canyon

Simulated views of the canyon in Gale crater, ultimate destination of MSL Curiosity.
HIRISE DTM DTEEC_009149_1750_009294_1750_U01.IMG processed with Microdem

Real stereo images expected  soon  
"This stereo pair taken about 33 feet (10 meters) apart will provide three-dimensional information about distant features and possible driving routes."

Download and view in full size with red/green viewer.

line of sight from current MSL position, 100m up



view into the canyon from 500m up, 100m contour lines




view into the canyon from 1000m up



More Curiosity site mapping

Supplementing the new images by MSL of Aeolis Mons in Gale crater and the discussion,
here are some visualizations created using Microdem and the MOLA DTM.


1 The crest in the direction of the secondary peak is 37 km away from MSL and at 6 deg elevation angle



2 - MOLA DTM with contour lines 200m apart
range circles at 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 km from MSL

3 Perspective view from 100m above MSL landing site

Original size 2400x600 here

5 Google Mars view with Microdem overlay

6 Google Mars view

7 Google Mars view

8 Google Mars view

Google Mars and Curiosity Update

Scenes created using an overlay of the color-enhanced view presented yesterday
The slope map by Tesheimer is here

The 360 degree high-res panorama has been added to Google Mars already.
Google Mars updated! from 2009, scientific use, still interesting.

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ISS and Perseids

Streaks in the night sky

ISS passage 22:05 - 22:14 MESZ animated slideshow

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Perseid at 00:24 MESZ, Aug 12 in Andromeda
 4 minutes earlier there was one brighter than the ISS in the same direction leaving a smoke trail

ISS passage

ISS passage from Stuttgart at 21:30 MESZ
Animated gif 4MB, individual exposure times 1 sec

Google Mars - Curiosity

These Google Martians are fast! Highres coverage of the MSL site freshly added since yesterday.
Intended to create an overlay from the ustream screenshot below, not necessary anymore.



















pedestrian view, line towards hidden summit of Aeolis Mons





from JPL press conference 9:00 PDT, intended to create an overlay



Mars Landing

Google Mars scenes with the Curiosity touchdown site and Aeolis Mons in Gale crater.
The mountaintop is not visible from the MSL landing site at 137.44deg East 4.59 deg South

Arianespace TV

50th Ariane5 launch
Why is the altitude decreasing for several minutes after reaching about 160 km?
Look here "The imperative is to gain speed, even at the expense of some altitude"

City Star Party 2012

City Star Party am 28.07.2012, Schwaebische Sternwarte Stuttgart

Gallery 25 pics