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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 the virus. We are still on the island performing observing sessions and preparing project proposal “MadAstra – Reviving the Observational Astronomy on Madeira”. Just a preliminary summary can be found in the traveling section.

Although the low declination the 2019 explosion of this recurrent nova was observed intensively with low resolution spectrograph on Celestron C11″ telescope. Below are examples of our spectra and all low resolution spectra collected in ARAS database. The result was presented at the Telč conference by Francois Teyssier.

[Read more…] about Recurrent nova V3890 Sgr

Invited by Group of the astronomy on Universidade da Madeira I take part of the week of astronomy organized from 11 to 17 November 2019.

The final report was compiled by Dr. Laurindo Sobrinho.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/wNQuh1DtUAXtcPpP7

Participation in the radio – optical search for short term variability, i.e. Intro Day Variability and Inter day Variability (IDV)

Institutes involved:

• Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre, Latvia
• Astronomical Observatory, Odessa National University, Ukraine
• Odessa observatory URAN-4 Radio-astronomical Institutes NAS Ukraine

Targets:

Designation	Type	N	filters, exposures
OJ 287 (Cnc)	BLLAC	7	VRI, 120s
3C 371 (Dra)	BLLAC	16	VRI, 90s
3C 273 (Vir)	AGN	0
3C 454.3 (Peg)	AGN	0

[Read more…] about New observing program – Active Galactic Nuclei

Today the new personal webpage was published. There was webpage dedicated to variable stars observations in Slovakia on this URL several years ago. Now personal webpage focused on one observer appears.

Nova Persei 1901 use to show regularly dwarf nova outburst. The last one started in August 2018. More details on AAVSO alert notice.