“The bright sun was extinguish’d, and the starsDid wander darkling in the eternal space.”(Lord Byron George Gordon) Muzika uz post: Mesa (Hans Zimmer) Danas su mi iz Španije (Oria, Almería) poslali 100 min LRGB signala za galaksiju M66. Ova neobična galaksija koja sadrži 200 milijardi zvijezda, koju gledamo iskosa u pravcu Lava, od nas je […]

“The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.”(Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy) Muzika uz post: Tears in the Rain (Hans Zimmer) Dobio sam danas set podataka (LRGB) za maglinu “Tamna igračka” koja se vidi sa južne […]

“It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.” (Plato) Muzika uz post: Supernova Sonata Juče sam poručio sam iz Čilea (opservatorija “El Sauce (Vrba)”) sirove snimke skupa 157 galaksija Hydra, vidljivog sa južne hemisfere. Danas su snimci […]

“Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles […]

“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero […]

“The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject… And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will […]

“Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to […]

“Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements – […]

“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.”(Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature and Selected Essays) […]

“Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.” (Socrates) Muzika uz post: ZAYN – Dusk Till Dawn (Official Video) ft. Sia Često možemo vidjeti različite noćne pejzaže sa Mliječnim putem (tzv. nightscape), ali koliko su takve slike realne? […]

“Prošetao sam šumom i izašao sam veći od drveća.” – Henry David Thoreau Muzika uz blog post: Across The Universe (The Beatles) Sinoć smo testirali opremu za novu astrofoto sezonu i usput smo nanišanili magline Orion i Maratonac, sa rejona Bjelašnice (Štinji do). Snimali smo različite frejmove od po 30 s pa sve do 15 […]

“The Earth has music for those who listen.” (William Shakespeare) “The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.” (Galileo Galilei) Muzika uz post: FM-84 – Running In The Night (feat. Ollie Wride) […]

“Zaklinjem vas, braćo moja, ostanite vjerni Zemlji!” (F. Nietsche) Now We Are Free • Hans Zimmer & Lisa Gerrard Neki od boljih “daylight” uradaka tokom prethodnih 20-tak godina. Mnogo lijepih uspomena i kvalitetnih druženja. Više slika na ovom LINKU. Za astrofoto portfolio posjetiti ovaj LINK. Za poručivanje mojih knjiga, posjetite ove linkove: NAŠ SVEMIR, ALHEMIČARI […]

“The fog is a magician who performs the art of erasing things without actually erasing them!”― M. M. Ildan Muzika uz tekst: Tiho (L. Močević) Sinoć smo malo snimali maglu iznad Sarajeva. Nevjerovatan prizor koji nikoga ne ostavlja ravnodušnim. Jedno more magle, a obronci Sarajeva izgledaju kao plaže. Snimali smo sa rejona Grdonja, u blizini Špicaste […]

Muzika uz post: Dropkick Murphys “I Wish You Were Here” Opozicija (lat. oppositio: suprotstavljenost), u astronomiji je položaj nebeskog tijela u Sunčevu sistemu kada se ono, posmatrano sa Zemlje, na nebeskoj sferi nalazi na strani suprotnoj od Sunca. Tada se u ekliptičkom koordinatnom sistemu ekliptičke longitude Sunca i tijela razlikuju za 180°. U opoziciji mogu biti samo ona nebeska tijela koja se nalaze dalje od Sunca nego […]