Thoughts about January and February 2014

Hello everyone! Early 2014 (January and February) have been extremely busy time for me. I'm currently working on my M.Sc. thesis, and it should be finished in March-April. Besides this, I have had many other urgent projects going on. From astronomical point of view, early 2014 hasn't offered me much. There was a supernova in …

November things

November 2013 is soon over, and I haven't made any post to this blog during this month. So I thought, that I'll make this post to summary few thoughts about this November from astronomical point of view. Few words about observing conditions: mostly this November seemed to be quite a crappy month, it has been …

Observing season 2011-2012 – a retrospective view

Overall view of the observing season Summer solstice 2012 happened just a few days ago here in the Northern Hemisphere (21.6.2012). It means that the days are getting shorter and nights are getting longer again. It also means the change of observing season for me, the moment of summer solstice is the boundary between the …

SQM vs. NELM – preliminary results

I started making regular observations of NELM and SQM in late March last year when I bought a SQM-L device for myself. Then I started a project about collecting these measurements and comparing NELM vs. SQM. Here's a preliminary graphical presentation of my results. In this graph, there is SQM plotted vs. NELM. This dataset …