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 …
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Recurrent nova V3890 Sgr
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.
Week of Astronomy on Madeira 2018
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
New observing program – Active Galactic Nuclei
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 …
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var.kozmos.sk is back
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.
GK Per outburst
Nova Persei 1901 use to show regularly dwarf nova outburst. The last one started in August 2018. More details on AAVSO alert notice.