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This art [astronomy]which is as it were the head of all the liberal arts and the one most worthy of a free man leans upon nearly all the other branches of mathematics. Arithmetic, geometry, optics, geodesy, mechanics, and whatever others, all offer themselves in its service.
Nicolaus Copernicus, Introduction to De Revoluntionibus, 1543. |
Image by Oleg Toumilovitch, 2012
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02 February 2012
The International Space Station as seen from Johannesburg.
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Update: 30 January 2012
A 40 seconds exposure produces a unique and unpredictable autograph-like graphics. Intrigued? Find out about how Comet Lovejoy was photographed from an ocean cruise liner. Click here: COMET LOVEJOY PAGE
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22 January 2012
Another rocket fuel dump has been captured! This time it is from Sutherland, South Africa, by Willie Koorts, who writes: "I was alerted by a group of enthusiasts, who specialise in tracking down launches, that I may be able to spot the fuel dump of the Delta 4 WGS 4 satellite launch from Sutherland, even though it is nearly 12,000km away. Unfortunately it meant getting up at 03h00 local time, but the view was worth it! I managed to track the cloud of fuel to ~20,000km, then only 2.6 degrees above my local horizon from SAAO Suterhalnd. Around 03h40, I noticed a bright blob to the left and below the Moon, in between the cloud layers! Now, checking the camera's display as every new picture appeared, it was seen to be slowly moving! So, this was where I was hijacked since I continued shooting until ~04h00 by which time it disappeared into the cloud, but dimmed substantially as well."
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January 2012
Welcome to Astronomical.co.za 2012 website - your prime source of astronomical news and images from Southern Africa! As always, we are looking forward to all the surprises the universe has for us and to your astro-images. Big THANK YOU to all our visitors and to everyone, who provided us with unique material for this website during 2009-2011 period, it's been a wonderful journey, let's see what is waiting for us in 2012.. This is a very special year, which promises us a lot of "out of this world". Maybe good place to start is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon ?
Couple of years ago, during one of my talks on astro-photography, I've shown the image of the Sun, setting over Johannesburg. A fellow astronomer asked: "But what does it have to do with astronomy?". My answer is a question: "What doesn't it have to do with astronomy?" So, let's start this year with the sunset over the Indian ocean, as was seen from aboard of an ocean cruise liner.
Comet Lovejoy photographed from an ocean cruise liner. Click here: COMET LOVEJOY PAGE
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Waterberg Planetary Festival
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Last flight of Atlantis
Comet C/2009 P1 Garradd
FOTON AstroCam V1:
Saturn at "opposition"-April 2011
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