2007-11-10

2007-11-04

A trip to Macocha

Macocha is an abyss near Blansko town (approximately 30km far of Brno).. cold evening, .. clear sky .. hight humidity .. Holmes near zenit... Milky way... really nice .. we had concentred to pointed photographing by our fish-eye .. The images covers practicaly full sky sphere. A lot of interesting objects can be identified. For example, Andromeda galaxy (M31), M33, NGC 456, Holmes, California... the large image (1/2 of original) shows optical quality of Canon's fish-eye f15. The picture is perfect at center while small triangles appears at borders. A light polution due to Brno (on south) and Blansko (west-north) is clearly visible...

The Sky (Canon EOS 5D, fish-eye 15mm, 127 sec)

The sky (Canon EOS 5D, fish-eye 15mm, 618 sec)


A large format of deep_macocha , A large format of deeep_macocha.

We still need the correct white balance of our camera....

The romantic time of the evening is illlustrated by images:

Staff at work (Canon EOS 5D, fish-eye 15mm, 30 sec)
Ground view (Canon EOS 5D, fish-eye 15mm, 30 sec)


Large versions: ground and staff.

Thx Mif, codel, RAMka and Kocka.

17P/Holmes on the sky of HaP MK Brno

I'm introducing images acquired during our historical first star photo party using by a paralactic mount with a siderical driver. There are a few images taken during evenning 2007-10-31/11-01 on a terace of a building of HaP MK Brno. I and codel...

Wide field (Canon EOS 30D, f=18mm, 134 sec)


Detail of comet location (Canon EOS 30D, f=170mm, 244 sec)

Pleiades (Canon EOS 30D, f=400mm, 50 sec)


Orion's nebula (Canon ESO 30D, f=400mm, 30sec)



Don't be confused by background gradient (especially on wide field). It's due to a strong light-pollution by Brno. The observatory is located near center of 400th thousands town. Look also on codel's blog.

Munipack update

I'd updated Munipack's configure.in to fit a "modern" way to search for fortran's 90 compiler by simply application of AC_PROG_FC macro.

This is a really great step, while last five years the compiler were detected by my own macro (four years ago) or by detecting of various specified compilers (up to today).

By the way, I'm suppose that Munipack compilation will more portable on modern distributions (Ubuntu?).

The macro's change will result in prefer of use of gfortran (not g95, ifc,..) compiler. One is pretty g95-compatible so it has implied changes in munilist's main and it remind me that the main is still non-wraped via C. I started rewrote it. The different compiler to compile can be specified via ./configure FC=ifc.

A problem has been reported under Mandriva Linux 2007.1 distribution. The compilation aborts with:

aflat_bin-autoflat.o: In function `MAIN_':autoflat.f90:(.text+0x8ce): undefined reference to `ftopen_'

(libcfitsio is installed corectly) which means that cfitsio is probally uncorrectly builded. The test with a simple C code is linked correctly, a simple code of fortran reveals the described problem. Specification of -fno-underscoring remove underscoring without expected effect.... (thx to petos).

A ghost (second test post)


The in-line image of the ghost:



A ghost

A ghost relevation on our image of the night sky acquired during excelent evening on Thu 1. november.


A ghost image

Test of gnome-blog

An amazin test of gnome-blog...

First entry...

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