Thanks to a fortunate time-space configuration, signals about several interesting phenomena in our Galaxy reached Earth during 2022. In this post I will summarize the basic information about some of them. First of all, novae that exploded in the period of 2020, 2021 were still active. Of them, I will mention two completely opposite objects. …
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Greatest hits 2021
Unprecedented rate of novae for northern observers. Final count is six in one year included the recurrent symbiotic nova RS Oph as the most important event. The photometric an spectroscopic coverage made at the Kolonica observatory is also unprecedented. The first results were presented at the Bezovec conference and will be published in the proceedings. …
Final report of the first season of Stars Above Ponta do Sol
The pandemy of the new coronavirus gave me the possibility to extend the season from planned two months to more than half year period. Many astronomical activities were performed between 11/01/2020 and 31/07/2020 on Madeira island. In the following I summarize activities with my personal participation as a representative of the Observatory and Planetarium M.R. …
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May 2020 – still in Madeira
The winter stay became the spring one. However after many clear nights in April only one in May until now. We had spectacular green flash on 1st of May (see astro-gallery ), then practically nothing special. In the meantime new section appeared in this web. In Photogrammetry – you can find several 3D reconstructions of …
YY Her
Nice example of co-operation of visual and electronic observations. YY Her is symbiotic variable showing periodic variations connected with the orbital motion. Porb = 589.5 d. Sometimes the outbursts occurs. See the long term light curve below:
Madeira 2020
Another winter stay in the island of eternal spring. Between 10. January and 12. March 2020. Two main objectives: To put the University Meade LX200 telescope in operation. To start up the local astronomical community in Ponta do Sol You can follow the process on https://www.facebook.com/stars.above.pontadosol/ The adventure continues after 12 of March because of …