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Monthly Archives: January 2009

2009: International Year of Astronomy

2009 is the International Year of Astronomy. Finally an unmissable, long-awaited opportunity has come: that of sharing the knowledge and passion for the wonders of the Universe with the general public. I am a not a professional astronomer, but as a long-time amateur, I am really excited about it. For this reason, I will strive to give my small yet passionate contribution to this big collective effort!

By Emmanuele Sordini Astronomy: news 22 January 2009 0

DEVOXX 2008

Ok, I know: I should have written this post more than a month ago. But I’ve been very busy lately and I have to process my backlog of work, including new updates to this website. After all, they say better late than never So, here we go: the 2008 edition of the Devoxx conference (formely JavaPolis: by the way, why the heck did Sun have this name changed?) was held (as usual) in Antwerp, Belgium, from December 10th to 12th, […]

By Emmanuele Sordini Computing 22 January 2009 0

M1 The Crab Nebula

On December 21, 2008, I went on a short observing session, which was haunted by several problems with my setup. However, I did manage to pull off a picture of M1, aka the Crab Nebula, with my Vixen refractor and my Canon EOS 350D digital reflex. This object is just a smudge of light of about 7 x 5 arcminutes across, so it’s really small compared with the whole frame, which I had to heavily crop. Here is the result: […]

By Emmanuele Sordini Astronomy: website and activity updates 22 January 2009 0

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