Compass Calibration Nexus5 – GPS Essentials 1. Try to stay away from magnetic fields as far as you can 2. Open GPS Essentials and tap on compass (calibration will not work when the compass is not showing) 3. Put the phone on a flat surface with the display pointing up 4. Move the phone slowly,...
Anleitung für das Einscheinern eines auf der Nordhalbkugel und einer “Deutschen Montierung” stehenden Refraktors mit Zenitspiegel . Ein Refraktor, sowie alle Spiegelteleskope mit zwei Spiegeln (Newton, Schmidt-Cassegrain, Maksutov etc.) drehen das Bild – gegenüber dem Himmelsanblick mit dem bloßen Auge – um 180 Grad. Das bedeutet, durch das Okular geschaut, befindet sich Süden nun oben...
I decided to add a new DSLR specialized for Astrophotography. Following a compilation of Canon 60Da Settings for Astrophotography; My intention is to note down a starting point; after that they could go on and modify them per their needs, imaging results, and experience. SLR has live view, the 10x magnification of which is excellent...
Credit Photogruppe. Am 16Zoll SC
This picture of Orion was imaged on Thursday evening 20th Feb 2014 a Canon 5 D Mark II DSLR with an 50 mm 1.4 and is a stack of 4 X 3 sec (1 not 30) exposures because of light pollution. Cold came in fast, so I was lucky to get this many. Stacked with...
A document obtained by The Associated Press on Friday shows Pope Benedict XVI defrocked nearly 400 priests over just two years for molesting children. An AP review of the reference books shows a remarkable zero tolerance policy in the Holy See’s in-house procedures to discipline pedophiles since 2001, when the Vatican ordered bishops to send...
The Ursids meteor shower is nearly here — the noted meteor shower will be reaching its peak only a week from now, on the night of December 21, 2013. While the exact peak will be on the night of December 21, 2013, any night between the 17th and 25th…
Unser Interesse ist auf Komet C/2012 S1 (ISON) gerichtet, der am 28. November knapp über der Sonnenoberfläche vorbeirast. Verglichen mit einem anderen, vor wenigen Wochen entdeckte Komet hat er eigentlich nach den letzten Prognosen wenig zu bieten: C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy) ist ab Mitte November dagegen mit blossen Augen südlich des Grossen Waagen zu finden, sogar am frühen Abend. Geschieht bei...
In the geocentric world view of the Middle Ages, comets did not belong to the heavenly sphere – they were seen as Doom Bringer, as God’s punishment. Like the vaiable star Algol, considered evil unpredicablity had not been trusted. The archtypical fear fear of comets is as old as mankind is evident with the comet...
2013Q4_biking I reached today 70 bike days going to work. Living in Munich you bike – period. Good bike lanes, most car drivers reasonable, lots of parks, little hills and distances are comparatively small. During rush hours, however, even Munich’s streets can be scary places, when you’re on a bike and trucks and cars are rushing by. Our streets can also...
At the end of the 1960s under the politically active left discussed the theory of state monopoly capitalism, where the interaction of the state with the economy became so intertwined, that it ultimately leads a domination of a financial oligarchy.There are two fundamentally different philosophies about the role of the State. The “left” utopia state...
