<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733</id><updated>2012-01-09T11:42:15.615+01:00</updated><category term='boring'/><category term='neuchatel'/><category term='psychology'/><category term='LCO'/><category term='first'/><category term='conference'/><category term='observatory'/><category term='browser'/><category term='Observations'/><category term='pancake'/><category term='Ostrowik'/><title type='text'>When astronomers have nothing to do...</title><subtitle type='html'>This is (or rather will be, or rather we would like it to be) a blog describing 

not-so boring life of nowaday astronomers. Please leave comments if You enjoy reading it.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Gorzelnia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08687191317668715367</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>53</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-5506901267895379783</id><published>2011-03-31T21:13:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2011-03-31T21:20:05.256+02:00</updated><title type='text'>observation log - animals</title><content type='html'>From time to time it happens here to meet some animals. Not very often since it is a half-desert, but it happens. Sometime it's cute springbook just behind your window&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g-ey69DLFVU/TZTTgykzhaI/AAAAAAAAATQ/3e290Tc9WjI/s1600/IMG_4546.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g-ey69DLFVU/TZTTgykzhaI/AAAAAAAAATQ/3e290Tc9WjI/s320/IMG_4546.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590325597759047074" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;but sometimes not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ybskXfyoZlk/TZTTx4HWUaI/AAAAAAAAATY/_Knpv7uVWjA/s1600/IMG_4549.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ybskXfyoZlk/TZTTx4HWUaI/AAAAAAAAATY/_Knpv7uVWjA/s320/IMG_4549.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590325891303887266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-5506901267895379783?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/5506901267895379783/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=5506901267895379783' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/5506901267895379783'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/5506901267895379783'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2011/03/observation-log-animals.html' title='observation log - animals'/><author><name>Gorzelnia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08687191317668715367</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g-ey69DLFVU/TZTTgykzhaI/AAAAAAAAATQ/3e290Tc9WjI/s72-c/IMG_4546.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-7802170663013733173</id><published>2011-03-31T14:08:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2011-03-31T14:52:04.404+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Observations log day #3</title><content type='html'>Yes, we had a little pause in writing on thins blog, but since I am 'observing' now in Sutherland, South Africa I may try to write something.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I am here 3 days, here is summary of these 3 days:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- There are shop that sells electricity, I thought about buying a bucket of this, but I didn't have time to go into that shop. Exact sign was "Here we sell electricity"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- They drink decaff coffee in observatory. That's just weird.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- I asked a driver (transport from Cape Town to Sutherland) what should I do with my room key, since I am leaving. He said, very surprised: "WHO are you?!". &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- I talked to another astronomer, just usual blablabla, what he's observing, how is the weather, he asked where am I from. I said "I'm from Poland" of course, and he replied "A ja jestem z Poznania". (for english-only speaking readers - it means that he was from Poland too).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- In a pub in Sutherland they know polish people, especially one lady. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- A bartender in Cape Town didn't believe me that it's possible to drink a shot of vodka (and only vodka), he heard of it but couldn't believe me. Then he gave me 3 shots to teach him. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The best bartender in the world! (the left one):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jBUrKXJvFJQ/TZR282dHv1I/AAAAAAAAATA/6EptH83SDgw/s1600/IMG_4513.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jBUrKXJvFJQ/TZR282dHv1I/AAAAAAAAATA/6EptH83SDgw/s320/IMG_4513.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590223825255513938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Now I start to think I am coursed - a year ago, when I was here to observe during two weeks we had maybe 6 'good' nights. It's raining for two days now, and forecast says that it will be raining until Friday...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The picture is made toward the plateau, where is SALT and other domes. Not visible now...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NU-kIaBQTjA/TZR4KVjCbdI/AAAAAAAAATI/gx7daLNvr7w/s1600/IMG_4527.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NU-kIaBQTjA/TZR4KVjCbdI/AAAAAAAAATI/gx7daLNvr7w/s320/IMG_4527.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590225156451757522" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-7802170663013733173?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/7802170663013733173/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=7802170663013733173' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/7802170663013733173'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/7802170663013733173'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2011/03/observations-log-day-3.html' title='Observations log day #3'/><author><name>Gorzelnia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08687191317668715367</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jBUrKXJvFJQ/TZR282dHv1I/AAAAAAAAATA/6EptH83SDgw/s72-c/IMG_4513.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-5392013357145458182</id><published>2010-10-11T23:02:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-10-11T23:07:45.598+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='first'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='boring'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='browser'/><title type='text'>We are the first</title><content type='html'>at least if you type "boring astronomers" in your browser:D&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NK-21lcyv4Q/TLN7wxNrusI/AAAAAAAAMAU/7UEwUHhbu_Q/s1600/Zrzut+ekranu+2010-10-11+(godz.+23.00.59).png"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NK-21lcyv4Q/TLN7wxNrusI/AAAAAAAAMAU/7UEwUHhbu_Q/s320/Zrzut+ekranu+2010-10-11+(godz.+23.00.59).png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526897245488396994" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;might not work in boring browsers...*&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;*FF, SF, OP, CH&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-5392013357145458182?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/5392013357145458182/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=5392013357145458182' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/5392013357145458182'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/5392013357145458182'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2010/10/we-are-first.html' title='We are the first'/><author><name>Mariusz Slonina</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/110983114939611199878</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NK-21lcyv4Q/TLN7wxNrusI/AAAAAAAAMAU/7UEwUHhbu_Q/s72-c/Zrzut+ekranu+2010-10-11+(godz.+23.00.59).png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-2306019864584682212</id><published>2010-06-08T19:14:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2010-06-29T11:00:30.326+02:00</updated><title type='text'>year-end summary</title><content type='html'>As You probably are aware there is an end of the academic year now. Most of the scientific institutes connected with academic life make some summaries. E.g. our institute counted number of publications since 1997. Only publications to refereed journals are taken.&lt;br /&gt;As You can see there is fast growth in last 3 years. Maybe it's improvement in a scientific level of workers, but there are also some voices that it's just when those huge consortiums (CTA, LIGO etc) began to write their publications. The other fact is that in those consortiums publications are made very slowly...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If You have similiar data, please, feel free to submit!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/TA5-ODtRcSI/AAAAAAAAAPY/xTynnhXpSYI/s1600/pub.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/TA5-ODtRcSI/AAAAAAAAAPY/xTynnhXpSYI/s320/pub.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480456576534933794" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-2306019864584682212?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/2306019864584682212/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=2306019864584682212' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/2306019864584682212'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/2306019864584682212'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2010/06/year-end-summary.html' title='year-end summary'/><author><name>Gorzelnia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08687191317668715367</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/TA5-ODtRcSI/AAAAAAAAAPY/xTynnhXpSYI/s72-c/pub.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-5791601800594996152</id><published>2010-05-06T04:11:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2010-05-06T04:41:56.621+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='observatory'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='LCO'/><title type='text'>Que telescopio es polaco?</title><content type='html'>Opción 1.:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lyxIbbW0uM/S-Ir5HABpcI/AAAAAAAAAC0/-kM-SMfJ9q0/s1600/img_6956a.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lyxIbbW0uM/S-Ir5HABpcI/AAAAAAAAAC0/-kM-SMfJ9q0/s320/img_6956a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467981157712897474" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Opción 2.:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__lyxIbbW0uM/S-Ir41ptDjI/AAAAAAAAACs/iS7tNFu1T0I/s1600/img_6955a.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__lyxIbbW0uM/S-Ir41ptDjI/AAAAAAAAACs/iS7tNFu1T0I/s320/img_6955a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467981153055870514" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Opción 3.:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__lyxIbbW0uM/S-Ir4rjFr2I/AAAAAAAAACk/6GIkA3e8ct8/s1600/img_6954a.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__lyxIbbW0uM/S-Ir4rjFr2I/AAAAAAAAACk/6GIkA3e8ct8/s320/img_6954a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467981150343769954" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="result_box" class="short_text"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(230, 236, 249); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" title=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-5791601800594996152?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/5791601800594996152/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=5791601800594996152' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/5791601800594996152'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/5791601800594996152'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2010/05/que-telescopio-es-polaco.html' title='Que telescopio es polaco?'/><author><name>RA_Dec</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14209688247596384316</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lyxIbbW0uM/S-Ir5HABpcI/AAAAAAAAAC0/-kM-SMfJ9q0/s72-c/img_6956a.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-4740024067213202169</id><published>2010-05-01T12:31:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-05-01T12:37:26.601+02:00</updated><title type='text'>clock and Mr R.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CZy7mU4onJY/S9wEBiDvgeI/AAAAAAAAHkY/qa5l6kn8AKw/s1600/Zdj%C4%99cie0080.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; 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margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CZy7mU4onJY/S9wDld3qWWI/AAAAAAAAHkA/a0VWmWdjm6M/s400/Zdj%C4%99cie0081.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466247989929072994" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-4740024067213202169?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/4740024067213202169/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=4740024067213202169' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/4740024067213202169'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/4740024067213202169'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2010/05/clock-and-mr-r.html' title='clock and Mr R.'/><author><name>Moniś</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02873223233248428684</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CZy7mU4onJY/S9wEBiDvgeI/AAAAAAAAHkY/qa5l6kn8AKw/s72-c/Zdj%C4%99cie0080.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-5974178891429142321</id><published>2009-12-04T01:53:00.009+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-04T02:51:37.776+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Why Santa Claus is correlated with Aids?</title><content type='html'>Probably this in one of the most sirius post in this blog!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok, so, what "science" is all aboute? Well, partly about finding correlations. The other part is to discover if that correlation is real. For example people that are talking about "global warming" mostly forget about second part.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How dose it work? How can We find correlation betwean Santa Claus and Aids?&lt;br /&gt;It's easy, You have to compare two curves. You can use google trends - it shows how often topics have been searched on Google over time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ok, just try SANTA (claus) and AIDS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SxhiXKAz2lI/AAAAAAAAAyI/-uPGFRAQiwk/s1600-h/s-a.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 143px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SxhiXKAz2lI/AAAAAAAAAyI/-uPGFRAQiwk/s320/s-a.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411183102249917010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;santa is blue, aids - red.&lt;br /&gt;correlation - obvious!!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why? Does that mean that people think of Santa Claus as filthy, immoral, obscene old man with aids?&lt;br /&gt;No, so why there is correlation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's start with comparing google trends curves for CHRISTMAS and SANTA:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SxhlwZ4PWYI/AAAAAAAAAyQ/QEf2bihq6Q0/s1600-h/s-c.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 143px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SxhlwZ4PWYI/AAAAAAAAAyQ/QEf2bihq6Q0/s320/s-c.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411186834540550530" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;natural,&lt;br /&gt;next step is CHRISTMAS and SEX&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SxhmUjTxg7I/AAAAAAAAAyY/VfN3ysY7jIU/s1600-h/c-se.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 143px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SxhmUjTxg7I/AAAAAAAAAyY/VfN3ysY7jIU/s320/c-se.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411187455547245490" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;christmas is red, sex blue. Correlation isn't so perfect, but We belive it exist. &lt;br /&gt;Last step is:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SEX vs. AIDS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/Sxhm9Ieh1SI/AAAAAAAAAyg/HhvWpbiC_K0/s1600-h/s-aid.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 143px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/Sxhm9Ieh1SI/AAAAAAAAAyg/HhvWpbiC_K0/s320/s-aid.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411188152719234338" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and that is why we have correlation SANTA (claus) - AIDS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SxhnPkMpZjI/AAAAAAAAAyo/97Pudjs4z-Q/s1600-h/s-a.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 143px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SxhnPkMpZjI/AAAAAAAAAyo/97Pudjs4z-Q/s320/s-a.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411188469398070834" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so, do You belive and undarstand now? &lt;br /&gt;YOU SHOULDN'T!!!! It's an illusion. There IS NO real correlation between SEX and AIDS. &lt;br /&gt;The trick is, that 1 December is World AIDS Day. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Show some compassion to astronomers, almost all their work is finding correlations!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ps.&lt;br /&gt;Find out why there is anticorrelation with VODKA - POLAND !!!!!!!! XD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SxhqVm_96_I/AAAAAAAAAyw/MPFRv1_2-w4/s1600-h/v-p.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 143px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SxhqVm_96_I/AAAAAAAAAyw/MPFRv1_2-w4/s320/v-p.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411191871764294642" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-5974178891429142321?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/5974178891429142321/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=5974178891429142321' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/5974178891429142321'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/5974178891429142321'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2009/12/why-santa-claus-is-correlated-with-aids.html' title='Why Santa Claus is correlated with Aids?'/><author><name>Mr. R</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15990376471004412280</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SxhiXKAz2lI/AAAAAAAAAyI/-uPGFRAQiwk/s72-c/s-a.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-6314783492771879699</id><published>2009-11-24T18:23:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-24T18:32:12.326+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>To prove how hard we are working we started on-line streaming from our workplace, OAUW.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/~mgochna/cam.html"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SwwW-Ge_a4I/AAAAAAAAAyA/h66RRwT-NSk/s1600/stream2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SwwW-Ge_a4I/AAAAAAAAAyA/h66RRwT-NSk/s320/stream2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407722508713421698" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/~mgochna/cam.html"&gt;Watch here!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-6314783492771879699?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/6314783492771879699/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=6314783492771879699' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/6314783492771879699'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/6314783492771879699'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2009/11/to-prove-how-hard-we-are-working-we.html' title=''/><author><name>Mr. R</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15990376471004412280</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SwwW-Ge_a4I/AAAAAAAAAyA/h66RRwT-NSk/s72-c/stream2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-6133038451414208069</id><published>2009-11-15T18:30:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-16T14:13:37.586+01:00</updated><title type='text'>sediment?</title><content type='html'>Very soon there will be another astronomers meeteing. This time it's OSAD - meeteing specially designed for PhD astronomers.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;here is &lt;a href="http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/~phdstud/osad/"&gt;THE link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#333333;"&gt;and exlusively for our most observant readers here is a very hot gossip: there will be a premiere of "In the land of evil Seeing"!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-6133038451414208069?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/6133038451414208069/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=6133038451414208069' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/6133038451414208069'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/6133038451414208069'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2009/11/sediment.html' title='sediment?'/><author><name>Gorzelnia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08687191317668715367</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-6271966314969517409</id><published>2009-11-08T10:27:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-08T10:33:24.560+01:00</updated><title type='text'>CLOAOtW</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;One of our readers sent to us another picture of cosmic latte obseravatory. This one is an Observatory  of the University of Zielona Gora. The plague is spreading.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Thanks Bartek!!!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SvaQKzRYhxI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/2QFbetFOPvk/s320/Wie%C5%BCa+jesieni%C4%85.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 210px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401663318313699090" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-6271966314969517409?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/6271966314969517409/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=6271966314969517409' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/6271966314969517409'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/6271966314969517409'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2009/11/cloaotw.html' title='CLOAOtW'/><author><name>Gorzelnia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08687191317668715367</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SvaQKzRYhxI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/2QFbetFOPvk/s72-c/Wie%C5%BCa+jesieni%C4%85.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-8520859767544884616</id><published>2009-11-02T12:48:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-02T13:33:53.960+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Comsic Latte Observatories All Over the World?</title><content type='html'>Did you see 1st November (2009) Astronomy Picture of a Day? &lt;a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap091101.html"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is it:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0910/cosmiclatte_jhu.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 900px; height: 600px;" src="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0910/cosmiclatte_jhu.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;They say it's an average color of The Universe (named "cosmic latte"), but only this?&lt;br /&gt;Some unanswered questions:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Is this color also an average color of all observatories?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sholud we rename our project to "Comsic Latte Observatories All Over the World"?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How long astronomers know this color?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Is it some kind of conspiracy?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Previous question can be reduced to: what is the very first astronomical observatory painted in that color?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-8520859767544884616?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/8520859767544884616/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=8520859767544884616' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/8520859767544884616'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/8520859767544884616'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2009/11/comsic-latte-observatories-all-over.html' title='Comsic Latte Observatories All Over the World?'/><author><name>Gorzelnia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08687191317668715367</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-7693586792317320699</id><published>2009-10-06T11:05:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-06T11:09:16.825+02:00</updated><title type='text'>"In the Land of evil Seeing" - second trailer</title><content type='html'>So, soon we will publish full movie (we need just to record audio track), but now, watch "the" trailer - the full one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/w4YuKCcoDI4&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/w4YuKCcoDI4&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-7693586792317320699?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/7693586792317320699/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=7693586792317320699' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/7693586792317320699'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/7693586792317320699'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2009/10/in-land-of-evil-seeing-second-trailer.html' title='&quot;In the Land of evil Seeing&quot; - second trailer'/><author><name>Gorzelnia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08687191317668715367</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-4662072750335493700</id><published>2009-09-21T15:24:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2009-09-21T15:26:15.820+02:00</updated><title type='text'>In the land of evil Seeing - trailer</title><content type='html'>Coming soon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/POdiTSAY2bo&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/POdiTSAY2bo&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-4662072750335493700?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/4662072750335493700/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=4662072750335493700' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/4662072750335493700'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/4662072750335493700'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2009/09/in-land-of-evil-seeing-trailer.html' title='In the land of evil Seeing - trailer'/><author><name>Gorzelnia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08687191317668715367</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-15211376408433311</id><published>2009-08-07T07:14:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2009-08-07T07:25:19.491+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Try once more!</title><content type='html'>Has anybody seen differences between pictures on my last post? At least nobody wrote them in comments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now it's time for second part! Two cars are used by our observatory staff and students. Can you find any differences?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__lyxIbbW0uM/Snu52TLdeZI/AAAAAAAAAAs/dfo5DzJI07Q/s1600-h/DSC02217+%282%29.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__lyxIbbW0uM/Snu52TLdeZI/AAAAAAAAAAs/dfo5DzJI07Q/s320/DSC02217+%282%29.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367087723454495122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__lyxIbbW0uM/Snu6A_kLXzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/iNarwtHpcls/s1600-h/IMG_4810.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__lyxIbbW0uM/Snu6A_kLXzI/AAAAAAAAAA0/iNarwtHpcls/s320/IMG_4810.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367087907168018226" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Answer: there is no valid car insurance for &lt;a href="http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2008/10/observatory-car.html"&gt;red arrow&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-15211376408433311?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/15211376408433311/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=15211376408433311' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/15211376408433311'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/15211376408433311'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2009/08/try-once-more.html' title='Try once more!'/><author><name>RA_Dec</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14209688247596384316</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__lyxIbbW0uM/Snu52TLdeZI/AAAAAAAAAAs/dfo5DzJI07Q/s72-c/DSC02217+%282%29.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-4957020458943278149</id><published>2009-08-03T17:24:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2009-08-03T17:41:56.028+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Is there a difference?</title><content type='html'>It's normal to see some animals when you're in the observatory, because usually observatories are built in isolated places. Can you found 10 differences between these photos taken in Ostrowik Observatory and Las Campanas Observatory?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__lyxIbbW0uM/SncEpdgRCII/AAAAAAAAAAc/eeWk_MCWJ1Q/s1600-h/Ostrowik_animal.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__lyxIbbW0uM/SncEpdgRCII/AAAAAAAAAAc/eeWk_MCWJ1Q/s320/Ostrowik_animal.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365762591376345218" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__lyxIbbW0uM/SncExOTFPzI/AAAAAAAAAAk/LnfXbylPWK8/s1600-h/LCO_animal.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__lyxIbbW0uM/SncExOTFPzI/AAAAAAAAAAk/LnfXbylPWK8/s320/LCO_animal.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365762724733468466" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-4957020458943278149?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/4957020458943278149/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=4957020458943278149' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/4957020458943278149'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/4957020458943278149'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2009/08/is-there-difference.html' title='Is there a difference?'/><author><name>RA_Dec</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14209688247596384316</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__lyxIbbW0uM/SncEpdgRCII/AAAAAAAAAAc/eeWk_MCWJ1Q/s72-c/Ostrowik_animal.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-1588668460826293153</id><published>2009-08-03T17:12:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2009-08-03T17:54:15.963+02:00</updated><title type='text'>ICYA - preparations &amp; arrangements</title><content type='html'>ICYA, International Conference of Young Astronomers will be held in Krakow, but organizers are from different Polish cities, Krakow, Zielona Gora, Torun and Warsaw. So from time to time we have to arrange meetings of organizing committee.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SncC50LS7oI/AAAAAAAAAuY/gQsH9mabCO0/s1600-h/dscf2894.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SncC50LS7oI/AAAAAAAAAuY/gQsH9mabCO0/s320/dscf2894.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365760673317056130" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This time it was in Krakow, so we had opportunity to check lecture hall and other conference devices. As can you see we had real hard-working time. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And the questions are:  &lt;br /&gt;Who the hell is paying for it?&lt;br /&gt;What color of identifier should we have?&lt;br /&gt;How to escape in case of conference failure... :p&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.icya2009.org/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-1588668460826293153?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/1588668460826293153/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=1588668460826293153' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/1588668460826293153'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/1588668460826293153'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2009/08/icya-preparations-arrangements.html' title='ICYA - preparations &amp; arrangements'/><author><name>Mr. R</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15990376471004412280</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SncC50LS7oI/AAAAAAAAAuY/gQsH9mabCO0/s72-c/dscf2894.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-7789083135615813722</id><published>2009-07-18T19:01:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2009-07-18T19:43:19.076+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Is it dark enough?</title><content type='html'>Astronomers tend to situate their telescopes in places where are no artificial light sources - they want to observe dark sky. One of such places is Las Campanas Observatory in Chile where twin 6.5 m Magellanic telescopes, 2.5 m Du Pont telescope, 1 m Swope telescope and of course 1.3 m Warsaw telescope operate. There are some smaller telescopes like ASAS or Pi of the Sky. It isn't true that we don't like physicists from our faculty, we just don't like the way they treat dark sky. Their telescope during observations looks like that:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lyxIbbW0uM/SmIAWkgb2LI/AAAAAAAAAAM/E2oiXGove1g/s1600-h/img_1500ss.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lyxIbbW0uM/SmIAWkgb2LI/AAAAAAAAAAM/E2oiXGove1g/s400/img_1500ss.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359846894281152690" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are you able to find any unnecessary light on that picture?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Clue: there is one in camera casing)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-7789083135615813722?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/7789083135615813722/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=7789083135615813722' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/7789083135615813722'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/7789083135615813722'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2009/07/astronomers-tend-to-situate-their.html' title='Is it dark enough?'/><author><name>RA_Dec</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14209688247596384316</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lyxIbbW0uM/SmIAWkgb2LI/AAAAAAAAAAM/E2oiXGove1g/s72-c/img_1500ss.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-7903756600097303866</id><published>2009-07-14T20:47:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2009-07-14T21:04:48.032+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Man on the Moon</title><content type='html'>Since last week I work in Warsaw Planetarium. This job is so boring, because I have to sit there on a chair and watch visitors if they're not doing anything nasty. Also, from time to time, I have a speech about what You can see on a nightsky now. Today I took a camera and made some very unique pictures of landing on the Moon. Here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SlzUmKnhFII/AAAAAAAAAE0/ciFizEADV9Y/s1600-h/moon2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SlzUmKnhFII/AAAAAAAAAE0/ciFizEADV9Y/s320/moon2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358391408814265474" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SlzUl9qfwjI/AAAAAAAAAEs/avjSaGScUqU/s1600-h/moon3.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 329px; height: 220px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SlzUl9qfwjI/AAAAAAAAAEs/avjSaGScUqU/s320/moon3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358391405337100850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-7903756600097303866?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/7903756600097303866/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=7903756600097303866' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/7903756600097303866'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/7903756600097303866'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2009/07/man-on-moon.html' title='Man on the Moon'/><author><name>Gorzelnia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08687191317668715367</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SlzUmKnhFII/AAAAAAAAAE0/ciFizEADV9Y/s72-c/moon2.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-2550362103679800285</id><published>2009-06-18T10:39:00.010+02:00</published><updated>2009-08-15T20:16:40.712+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='psychology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pancake'/><title type='text'>Psychological portrait of an astronomer or an astronaut</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NK-21lcyv4Q/Sob3Rkfgo1I/AAAAAAAAIeM/_c8eer8zrC4/s1600-h/DSC00016.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 379px; height: 256px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NK-21lcyv4Q/Sob3Rkfgo1I/AAAAAAAAIeM/_c8eer8zrC4/s320/DSC00016.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370251486911570770" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Few weeks ago, at the small pancake-party we discovered our psychological portraits. I present you my own, which is some kind of an ideal portrait, and I'm proud of it:D (not the best quality, but I'm testing bluetooth connection between Ubuntu 9.04 and my K510i).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Notice small dotted line, this is a zero-line of my profile. Scale is relative, my minimum is 1 and maximum is 8, so zero-line is about 3-4. Now, you can see all pros and cons of my character.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For an ideal astronomer/astronaut it is important to (my result in brackets):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;be keep watching at high level (7)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;be a loner at medium level (5)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;be non-usual at medium level (5)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;be rowdy at zero level (4)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;be changeable at low level (1)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;be dramatic at low level (2)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;be self-sure at medium or high level (5, ok, I have to work on it)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;be sensitive at zero level (3)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;be devoted at zero/medium level (5)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;be hard-working at high level (8)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;be a "comfortable" person at low level (2)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;be an autocratic person at low level (1)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;be offering at zero/medium level (5)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;be serious and medium/high level (6)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you can see, I am almost an ideal astronomer;p&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our pancake-party finished at half of "La Dolce Vita" by F. Fellini. The half means here: 1h30m without any action. We gived up with the movie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No more "La Dolce Vita"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-2550362103679800285?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/2550362103679800285/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=2550362103679800285' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/2550362103679800285'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/2550362103679800285'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2009/06/psychological-portrait-of-astronomer-or.html' title='Psychological portrait of an astronomer or an astronaut'/><author><name>Mariusz Slonina</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/110983114939611199878</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NK-21lcyv4Q/Sob3Rkfgo1I/AAAAAAAAIeM/_c8eer8zrC4/s72-c/DSC00016.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-7899106358762867426</id><published>2009-05-24T19:50:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2009-05-24T19:56:37.407+02:00</updated><title type='text'>ICYA - conference</title><content type='html'>The International Conference of Young Astronomers (ICYA) is a scientific meeting of undergraduate, graduate, and PhD students of astronomy and physics as well as more advanced astronomers. We, as young scientists, feel a big need to contribute our share to this year’s International Year of Astronomy 2009 and use this opportunity to establish global, annual conference for all scientists, researchers and advanced amateur astronomers who could meet in future and work together in projects which will develop modern astronomy.   &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;For this reason we aim to arrange an international conference to broaden our minds and to discuss challenging issues of astronomy. Furthermore, and most important, the meeting gives a chance to get in touch with other young scientists, with whom we might cooperate in the future.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Our goal is to establish ICYA as a regular conference, held once a year in different countries, connecting young astronomers from all over the world. Let's make it happen!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;This year ICYA is organised by the Polish Astronomical Society in collaboration with Polish universities (Jagiellonian University of Cracow, University of Warsaw, Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań, Nicolaus Copernicus University of Toruń, University of Zielona Góra, University of Szczecin and Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre of Polish Academy of Sciences) and hopefully will be supported by foreign universities and astronomical societies as well as international astronomical organizations.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The conference will take place in Cracow, Poland, September 7 – 13.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;(I)CYA there!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.icya2009.org/"&gt;http://www.icya2009.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-7899106358762867426?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/7899106358762867426/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=7899106358762867426' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/7899106358762867426'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/7899106358762867426'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2009/05/icya-conference.html' title='ICYA - conference'/><author><name>Mr. R</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15990376471004412280</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-5055940594542713593</id><published>2009-05-12T14:20:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2009-05-12T14:39:56.055+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Astronomer's plant</title><content type='html'>Certainly astronomers like flowers and other plants. In fact recently we have grown our own plant... or rather we think it's a plant. For few weeks we have cultivated it in proper temperature, humidity, hiding from sun light. Today it has bloom... we think... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SgltoIKhi-I/AAAAAAAAAfU/9OvTLP9JddM/s1600-h/firstII.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SgltoIKhi-I/AAAAAAAAAfU/9OvTLP9JddM/s320/firstII.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334915769750883298" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/Sglt1AQ6rgI/AAAAAAAAAfc/2Q4LWfoY2ss/s1600-h/sekend.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/Sglt1AQ6rgI/AAAAAAAAAfc/2Q4LWfoY2ss/s320/sekend.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334915990968512002" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-5055940594542713593?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/5055940594542713593/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=5055940594542713593' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/5055940594542713593'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/5055940594542713593'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2009/05/astronomers-plant.html' title='Astronomer&apos;s plant'/><author><name>Mr. R</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15990376471004412280</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SgltoIKhi-I/AAAAAAAAAfU/9OvTLP9JddM/s72-c/firstII.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-5346128778254659670</id><published>2009-05-02T16:12:00.010+02:00</published><updated>2009-05-02T19:57:22.907+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Astronomer 's day</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SfyJXffO6xI/AAAAAAAAAe0/h7ewWZtlztc/s1600-h/1small.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SfyJXffO6xI/AAAAAAAAAe0/h7ewWZtlztc/s320/1small.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331287095582321426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the most important message this year!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/~phdstud/dzien_astronoma_2009/"&gt;Astronomer's day - 9 may 2009&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-5346128778254659670?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/5346128778254659670/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=5346128778254659670' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/5346128778254659670'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/5346128778254659670'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2009/05/astronomer-s-day.html' title='Astronomer &apos;s day'/><author><name>Mr. R</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15990376471004412280</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SfyJXffO6xI/AAAAAAAAAe0/h7ewWZtlztc/s72-c/1small.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-3294643376782648295</id><published>2009-04-08T14:22:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2009-04-08T14:26:18.846+02:00</updated><title type='text'>The Day The Earth Stood Still?</title><content type='html'>So we have to choose when to organize this years Astronomers Day...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's poll:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="300" height="250" frameborder="0" src="http://doodle.com/summary.html?pollId=api6ar4eqx7axfv9"&gt; &lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-3294643376782648295?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/3294643376782648295/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=3294643376782648295' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/3294643376782648295'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/3294643376782648295'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2009/04/day-earth-stood-still.html' title='The Day The Earth Stood Still?'/><author><name>Gorzelnia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08687191317668715367</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-7347159079233337782</id><published>2009-04-06T15:34:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2009-04-06T15:44:40.996+02:00</updated><title type='text'>YOAAW project</title><content type='html'>Despite all gossips one of ours scientific projects - Yellow Observatories All Over the World- is gathering more data. (The truth is that for now its the only working project...)&lt;br /&gt;Here is picture of observatory in Barcelona sent to us by Ania. (Thanks!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SdoGTiZBa-I/AAAAAAAAAC0/HxDgRBWXdbQ/s1600-h/obserwatorium.PNG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 220px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SdoGTiZBa-I/AAAAAAAAAC0/HxDgRBWXdbQ/s320/obserwatorium.PNG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321572842410699746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-7347159079233337782?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/7347159079233337782/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=7347159079233337782' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/7347159079233337782'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/7347159079233337782'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2009/04/yoaaw-project.html' title='YOAAW project'/><author><name>Gorzelnia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08687191317668715367</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SdoGTiZBa-I/AAAAAAAAAC0/HxDgRBWXdbQ/s72-c/obserwatorium.PNG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-3411511581205740831</id><published>2009-03-05T19:15:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-03-06T18:24:26.266+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Astronomers Day</title><content type='html'>If You want to help organizers in organizing Astronomers Day please vote in this poll:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="300" height="250" frameborder="0" src="http://doodle.com/summary.html?pollId=wirmde6y6q5sxgf8"&gt; &lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NOTE: This is not official programme of this party, and some of activities may be cancelled or added.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-3411511581205740831?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/3411511581205740831/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=3411511581205740831' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/3411511581205740831'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/3411511581205740831'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2009/03/astronomers-day.html' title='Astronomers Day'/><author><name>Gorzelnia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08687191317668715367</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-5011596625970746299</id><published>2009-02-08T23:32:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-02-08T23:39:17.533+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Observations</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SY9d6AEJaVI/AAAAAAAAALw/OYuh0jj0xYE/s1600-h/DSCF1970.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SY9d6AEJaVI/AAAAAAAAALw/OYuh0jj0xYE/s320/DSCF1970.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300558537469552978" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Gorzelnia is preparing "&lt;a href="http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2008/10/observatory-car.html"&gt;Red Arrow&lt;/a&gt;" for trip to Ostrowik. The plan is to make observations for &lt;a href="http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/~mgorski/oco.html"&gt;OCO&lt;/a&gt; project! What's wrong with that picture? :D&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-5011596625970746299?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/5011596625970746299/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=5011596625970746299' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/5011596625970746299'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/5011596625970746299'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2009/02/observations.html' title='Observations'/><author><name>Mr. R</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15990376471004412280</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SY9d6AEJaVI/AAAAAAAAALw/OYuh0jj0xYE/s72-c/DSCF1970.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-644594217923897265</id><published>2009-01-10T12:51:00.008+01:00</published><updated>2009-01-10T17:04:35.216+01:00</updated><title type='text'>How to make use of a good weather, when you can't observe</title><content type='html'>Sometimes it happens, that you can't observe despite good weather. It may be caused by full moon, some hardawre failure or too much alcohol drunk. It just happens. But if you'd like to make some use of weather conditions here are some tips:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can make profile picture for social websites, like Facebook:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SWiOHX5MXhI/AAAAAAAAACM/EckUcgzgInc/s1600-h/img+029.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SWiOHX5MXhI/AAAAAAAAACM/EckUcgzgInc/s320/img+029.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289634019670777362" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can make another boring picture of Orion:&lt;br /&gt;(This is a stack 5x15sec, ISO 1600, without bias, flatfield, dark correction)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SWiO-qbvpgI/AAAAAAAAACU/TeNva823lRk/s1600-h/orion_stack_copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SWiO-qbvpgI/AAAAAAAAACU/TeNva823lRk/s320/orion_stack_copy.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289634969540339202" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can try to make some charming pictures using fullmoon, such as "moonset":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SWiPgZ3rp1I/AAAAAAAAACc/kscg831AwEs/s1600-h/img+012.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SWiPgZ3rp1I/AAAAAAAAACc/kscg831AwEs/s320/img+012.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289635549209667410" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;or forest road iluminated by moon:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SWiQE4WKfzI/AAAAAAAAACk/_hrE6wzc1so/s1600-h/img+037+copy+2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SWiQE4WKfzI/AAAAAAAAACk/_hrE6wzc1so/s320/img+037+copy+2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289636175865872178" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And finally, you can just make some pictures of telescope and stars, but remember that it's so predictable...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SWiQ7GX-TOI/AAAAAAAAACs/jJYRMs_Js9Q/s1600-h/img+062+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SWiQ7GX-TOI/AAAAAAAAACs/jJYRMs_Js9Q/s320/img+062+copy.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289637107344493794" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-644594217923897265?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/644594217923897265/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=644594217923897265' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/644594217923897265'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/644594217923897265'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-to-make-use-of-good-weather-when.html' title='How to make use of a good weather, when you can&apos;t observe'/><author><name>Gorzelnia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08687191317668715367</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SWiOHX5MXhI/AAAAAAAAACM/EckUcgzgInc/s72-c/img+029.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-5560599418402133415</id><published>2008-12-28T15:31:00.009+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-28T16:20:27.408+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Cerro Tololo</title><content type='html'>I've just returned from &lt;a href="http://www.ctio.noao.edu/"&gt;Cerro Tololo, Inter-American Observatory&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SVeOXlSfG0I/AAAAAAAAAKA/cvtFkUkI9Fo/s1600-h/soar.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SVeOXlSfG0I/AAAAAAAAAKA/cvtFkUkI9Fo/s320/soar.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5284849223540349762" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was observing on SOAR telescope (above). It was my first visit in Chile, and also first observations on a such class telescope. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SVeO4t_3hOI/AAAAAAAAAKI/ntuoavF6tNs/s1600-h/telp1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SVeO4t_3hOI/AAAAAAAAAKI/ntuoavF6tNs/s320/telp1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5284849792813860066" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Main mirror has more than 4 meters diameter... it makes sound, mysterious noises...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SVePmXjxHUI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/x5ksfKInKPY/s1600-h/addoptics.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SVePmXjxHUI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/x5ksfKInKPY/s320/addoptics.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5284850577064402242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Telescope is one of the high-tech. Sensors, servomotors (above) and computers makes telescope adaptive optics mechanism. sooo coool&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SVeUF1aijtI/AAAAAAAAAKY/6SXQFNRpu3U/s1600-h/soi.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SVeUF1aijtI/AAAAAAAAAKY/6SXQFNRpu3U/s320/soi.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5284855515701219026" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That is my camera, SOI, and my assistant astronomer, Sergio. I don't know why steam is flowing from camera. I suppose there is some kind of steam engine, supplied with coal 8|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SVeVABSrNII/AAAAAAAAAKg/QBHNw2LIeIE/s1600-h/cntrrrm.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SVeVABSrNII/AAAAAAAAAKg/QBHNw2LIeIE/s320/cntrrrm.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5284856515321869442" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Control room and my post. First monitor - seeing and weather conditions, second - object monitor and dss maps, third and fourth - camera control GUI/SOI, last but not least - laptop - most important - facebook.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SVeWG7QXA4I/AAAAAAAAAKo/3EgJPq8Tp0Q/s1600-h/gemini.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SVeWG7QXA4I/AAAAAAAAAKo/3EgJPq8Tp0Q/s320/gemini.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5284857733472256898" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the same complex, there is a famous Gemini telescope. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SVeWWWKQvBI/AAAAAAAAAKw/reQWCr5d7J8/s1600-h/geminimrr.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SVeWWWKQvBI/AAAAAAAAAKw/reQWCr5d7J8/s320/geminimrr.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5284857998392474642" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is only one thing I can say aboute Gemini main mirror - IT'S HUGE!!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;That small person in front of telescope - it's me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SVeW_WLAGDI/AAAAAAAAAK4/jFGFhU2Bg7o/s1600-h/osiol.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SVeW_WLAGDI/AAAAAAAAAK4/jFGFhU2Bg7o/s320/osiol.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5284858702770214962" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Both telescpoes are on south edge of Atacama desert, very strange place, winds, earthquakes, and poisonous mutant animals, like this donkey-mule-horse I think.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-5560599418402133415?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/5560599418402133415/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=5560599418402133415' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/5560599418402133415'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/5560599418402133415'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2008/12/cerro-tololo.html' title='Cerro Tololo'/><author><name>Mr. R</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15990376471004412280</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SVeOXlSfG0I/AAAAAAAAAKA/cvtFkUkI9Fo/s72-c/soar.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-3966509350080366428</id><published>2008-12-20T11:19:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-30T11:37:55.659+01:00</updated><title type='text'>So is Mr R. observing from time to time?</title><content type='html'>As You could read in the post &lt;a href="http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2008/12/appreciation.html"&gt;"Appreciation"&lt;/a&gt; Mr R. is not considered by our friends as an observer . The fact is, that most of them thinks that he spend time in Ostrowik Observatory only on drinking and partying. The situation from that post is not unique. Some time ago, I went to Ostrowik in the afternoon and he were to come in the night. So I took &lt;a href="http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2008/10/observatory-car.html"&gt;"Observatory Car"&lt;/a&gt; to fetch him from the train station few kilometers from Ostrowik (in Celestynów). We gave his friend a lift and by the way we wanted to make some shopping:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Marek, I bought 2 beers for you, already.&lt;br /&gt;-Shut up! I was trying to convince my friend that we not only drink on Ostrowik!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But why I write this?&lt;br /&gt;In this place I would like to deny all gossips talking that Mr R. is not an observer:&lt;br /&gt;He is, and he made observations on SOAR (Cerro Tololo, Chile) 4 meter telescope, few days ago. We made a picture (I was "print screening" and he were posing) using their &lt;a href="http://www.soartelescope.org/release/00home/eng_home.php"&gt;live webcams (at the bottom of the page)&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SUzMMAgHnyI/AAAAAAAAACE/k4l_JXZQSlU/s1600-h/soar2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 242px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SUzMMAgHnyI/AAAAAAAAACE/k4l_JXZQSlU/s320/soar2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281820969663962914" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More news from Chile soon (I hope... ;) )!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-3966509350080366428?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/3966509350080366428/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=3966509350080366428' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/3966509350080366428'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/3966509350080366428'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2008/12/so-is-mr-r-observing-from-time-to-time.html' title='So is Mr R. observing from time to time?'/><author><name>Gorzelnia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08687191317668715367</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SUzMMAgHnyI/AAAAAAAAACE/k4l_JXZQSlU/s72-c/soar2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-8766887471164374127</id><published>2008-12-18T22:11:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-18T22:14:51.640+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Christmas QUIZZ</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SUq9NBHhDkI/AAAAAAAAAJg/1Orq9coC8ds/s1600-h/quiz2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SUq9NBHhDkI/AAAAAAAAAJg/1Orq9coC8ds/s320/quiz2.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281241544381238850" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Find snowman on this picure!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-8766887471164374127?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/8766887471164374127/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=8766887471164374127' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/8766887471164374127'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/8766887471164374127'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2008/12/christmas-quizz.html' title='Christmas QUIZZ'/><author><name>Mr. R</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15990376471004412280</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SUq9NBHhDkI/AAAAAAAAAJg/1Orq9coC8ds/s72-c/quiz2.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-4751822319560301358</id><published>2008-12-18T21:41:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-30T16:09:38.825+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Appreciation</title><content type='html'>Few weeks ago we had conversation with our friend, Mira. She is learning how to observe (You know, how to use telescope, computers, programs for ccd detector and facebook). She have already spend several observing nights in Ostrowik when Mr. Gorzelnia and me were there. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fragment of our conversation:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Gorzelnia: You have to learn few more things, and You will be able to take exam for observer, and join &lt;a href="http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/~mgorski/oco.html"&gt;OCO&lt;/a&gt; project.&lt;br /&gt;Mr. R (me): Yes! Then you can raplace me, because I can't be there so often .&lt;br /&gt;Mira: And in which activity I have to replace You? Cooking?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(That was just coincidence, She have never seen me working with telescope)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-4751822319560301358?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/4751822319560301358/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=4751822319560301358' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/4751822319560301358'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/4751822319560301358'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2008/12/appreciation.html' title='Appreciation'/><author><name>Mr. R</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15990376471004412280</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-7186052212256542503</id><published>2008-11-24T12:52:00.008+01:00</published><updated>2008-11-24T14:12:44.014+01:00</updated><title type='text'>How to make your speech longer</title><content type='html'>From time to time astronomy students have to give a lecture (Students' Seminary). In many cases it is based on some very serious and boring article from some well known scientific journals. In such case it is very probable that You won't find any sense in the article, so even thinking out of seminary idea is hard. So when Your seminary plan made in pain makes some sense, but You know that it will be too short, You can use some tips made in this&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;"tutorial on prolonging seminars"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;make Your Power Point (can be Open Office) presentation BIG. Copying it to seminary computer &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;will give you 2-3 minutes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Preset Yourself despite the fact that everyone perfectly know you. &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Can give You up to 1 minute.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Try to pretend to be nervous and hobble. You can your statements build in fancy grammatic, and then them rebuild to be correct. &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Can double Your presentation time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;You can try to mix previous method with making long pauses in statements. BUT: during pause utter some noises and gesticulate intensively, it will make You looking focused. &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Can give you 10% of the base presentation time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Change title of your speech. You will have to explain why You did it. &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Can give you 2-3 minutes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;In Your presentaion use some animations. Changing slides and showing groups of text/pictures &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;will give 2-3 minutes &lt;/span&gt;depending on the number of sildes You have and how many pictures You copied from base publication.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;NEVER add subtitles under graphs and axes labels. You will have to criticize this habit and explain what is on the graph. &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Can give 1-3 minutes on each graph.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Make random mistake in some equation. You will make 1 minute pause of complete silence thinking about it. Then You will say that there is an error an explain it. You can also write correct version on a blackboard. Listeners will think that You're perfectly prepared. &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Can give 2-4 minutes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;If You want to change slide wait few seconds gazing at the screen and thinking whether You have to say something more about this slide. &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Can give 2-3 minutes&lt;/span&gt; depending on the number of sildes You have.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;When You are talking about some slide slowly go away from the computer. Don't mix it with point 9. &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Can give you 1-2 minutes &lt;/span&gt;depending on the number of sildes You have.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;If You can use projectors' remote controler - use it. Very often they have some fancy system of changing slides (in wrong directory). Don't try to remember how to change to a next slide, make it to the previous and then nerviously press correct button more than one time and then return to correct slide. Don't use it too often. &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Can give up to 1 minute.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;At the beginning make a slide with a plan of Your seminary, and say most of things You have to say. On every slide recall what was on the previos slide, and mention somethong about next slide. In the middle of presentation make a summary of the first part and plan of the next part. At the end make a summary and say the same things fourth time. &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Can give you even 15 minutes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using this tutor You can make Your 15 minutes presentation to last for 1 hour, but it needs some practice to make it correctly and unnoticed.&lt;br /&gt;If You know of some prolonging trick please write it here, generations of young astronomers will be thankful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SSqlXr-id2I/AAAAAAAAAB0/vmmlx3xRG6g/s1600-h/semi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SSqlXr-id2I/AAAAAAAAAB0/vmmlx3xRG6g/s320/semi.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272208140151191394" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-7186052212256542503?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/7186052212256542503/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=7186052212256542503' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/7186052212256542503'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/7186052212256542503'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2008/11/how-to-make-your-speech-longer.html' title='How to make your speech longer'/><author><name>Gorzelnia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08687191317668715367</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SSqlXr-id2I/AAAAAAAAAB0/vmmlx3xRG6g/s72-c/semi.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-2186072335488837138</id><published>2008-10-25T19:15:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-11-24T14:18:19.278+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Mr. R.</title><content type='html'>Beacause Mr. R. some time ago wrote &lt;a href="http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2008/09/mr-gorzelnia.html"&gt;a post&lt;/a&gt; about me, I couldn't leave it without a reply.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, this is how exactly Mr. R. looks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SSqpi8Bb0bI/AAAAAAAAAB8/sx60OvsA7tE/s1600-h/p1010030.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SSqpi8Bb0bI/AAAAAAAAAB8/sx60OvsA7tE/s320/p1010030.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272212731483378098" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-2186072335488837138?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/2186072335488837138/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=2186072335488837138' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/2186072335488837138'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/2186072335488837138'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2008/10/mr-r.html' title='Mr. R.'/><author><name>Gorzelnia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08687191317668715367</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SSqpi8Bb0bI/AAAAAAAAAB8/sx60OvsA7tE/s72-c/p1010030.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-2495461710925007036</id><published>2008-10-21T14:00:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-21T14:17:24.308+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Observations'/><title type='text'>Black Hole?</title><content type='html'>Few nights ago we (me and Mr. R) have been in Las Ostrowik observatory to observe our object. &lt;br /&gt;Because it was monday we were at the place late. &lt;br /&gt;So: we turned on all that mystical devices, boxes et ceterea, to begin observations. You must know that it's not very hard work - we have script which do most of the job about taking pictures. After running this script we have 1 hour free time, then dome of the telescope needs to be moved.  So we ran our script, and wanted to go get some dinner. Mr. R wanted also to wait a minute until the first pictures downloads and check if everything is all right. It was, so we went to the other building, to eat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next day, when I wanted to skim through images taken last night I saw what You can see &lt;a href="http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/~mgochna/anim.gif"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. It is animation made from 15 following pictures taken that night.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-2495461710925007036?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/2495461710925007036/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=2495461710925007036' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/2495461710925007036'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/2495461710925007036'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2008/10/black-hole.html' title='Black Hole?'/><author><name>Gorzelnia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08687191317668715367</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-8652404709398307400</id><published>2008-10-18T20:06:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-25T19:14:57.085+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Observations'/><title type='text'>THE GRAPH</title><content type='html'>Maybe you have seen the &lt;a href="http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2008/09/our-observations.html"&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; about our first outputs of &lt;a href="http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/~mgorski/oco.html"&gt;OCO&lt;/a&gt; project. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a mention about something misticcally called "the graph". It's not there by accident. When You work with a Professor, it's very probable that you have to meet Him, from time to time, with some findings. It is also very probable that you have no any findings...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what to do then? Try to plot some graph, "The graph", there is great chance that it will do it's job. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obviously not always.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SPolHKeKKlI/AAAAAAAAABk/2od206m8iho/s1600-h/phd0213.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SPolHKeKKlI/AAAAAAAAABk/2od206m8iho/s400/phd0213.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258556319908637266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;graphic comes from&lt;br /&gt;http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=41&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-8652404709398307400?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/8652404709398307400/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=8652404709398307400' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/8652404709398307400'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/8652404709398307400'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2008/10/graph_18.html' title='THE GRAPH'/><author><name>Gorzelnia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08687191317668715367</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SPolHKeKKlI/AAAAAAAAABk/2od206m8iho/s72-c/phd0213.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-4398096413724835408</id><published>2008-10-18T02:40:00.009+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T03:21:33.836+02:00</updated><title type='text'>OSSA V - part 2</title><content type='html'>And some personal memorings from OSSA V.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SPkxF48-4UI/AAAAAAAAAHU/I9uLyDkAm9Y/s1600-h/1os.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SPkxF48-4UI/AAAAAAAAAHU/I9uLyDkAm9Y/s320/1os.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258288017189036354" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Gorzelnia and Mariusz playing and singing - in a little unique style. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SPkyatDDwXI/AAAAAAAAAHc/fdyQgyBcMNo/s1600-h/3os.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SPkyatDDwXI/AAAAAAAAAHc/fdyQgyBcMNo/s320/3os.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258289474282176882" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is party cavalry... when party is going to end, they arrive and all starts again :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SPky4sTEetI/AAAAAAAAAHk/9n5jF-pBBpg/s1600-h/2os.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SPky4sTEetI/AAAAAAAAAHk/9n5jF-pBBpg/s320/2os.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258289989476973266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If You ever see this - DON'T DRINK IT!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SPk08DXUlkI/AAAAAAAAAH0/50HUHzHry_c/s1600-h/5os.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SPk08DXUlkI/AAAAAAAAAH0/50HUHzHry_c/s320/5os.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258292246231684674" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Macarena during that night was most tranquil dance :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SPk4iazQ0II/AAAAAAAAAIU/kt5HShBqpiY/s1600-h/a3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SPk4iazQ0II/AAAAAAAAAIU/kt5HShBqpiY/s320/a3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258296203892805762" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and we had other activities than simple drinking and dancing :D&lt;br /&gt;During that night it was decided that next year there will be a huge international students conference in Poland!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SPk5z_w8fqI/AAAAAAAAAIc/2rbnLoom7yE/s1600-h/on.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SPk5z_w8fqI/AAAAAAAAAIc/2rbnLoom7yE/s320/on.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258297605384601250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, we bless YOU, organizers of OSSA V in Poznan!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-4398096413724835408?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/4398096413724835408/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=4398096413724835408' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/4398096413724835408'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/4398096413724835408'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2008/10/ossa-v-part-2.html' title='OSSA V - part 2'/><author><name>Mr. R</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15990376471004412280</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SPkxF48-4UI/AAAAAAAAAHU/I9uLyDkAm9Y/s72-c/1os.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-86785756179552337</id><published>2008-10-18T02:07:00.013+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T02:39:33.193+02:00</updated><title type='text'>OSSA V  - part 1.</title><content type='html'>After two weeks, something about OSSA, National Astronomy Students Conference, this time it took place in Poznan. It's my favourite conference, why? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SPkvgu4HwyI/AAAAAAAAAHM/ZUn3VYyr55A/s1600-h/7pn.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SPkvgu4HwyI/AAAAAAAAAHM/ZUn3VYyr55A/s320/7pn.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258286279317504802" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First - because high didactic level. You can hear about really interesting stuff, and what is more important - discuss about it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SPkppL6Eo5I/AAAAAAAAAGk/XEsVjRvRTKM/s1600-h/2pn.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SPkppL6Eo5I/AAAAAAAAAGk/XEsVjRvRTKM/s320/2pn.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258279827479503762" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;second... high party level - it's very important to meat your friends from other institutes, which are working on similar subjects. Here You can see our friends from Szczecin - very good team to party!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SPkupEse9gI/AAAAAAAAAHE/5tA3dFb_gD4/s1600-h/6pn.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SPkupEse9gI/AAAAAAAAAHE/5tA3dFb_gD4/s320/6pn.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258285323101599234" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But we meat to learn... so another day is for next talks...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SPkq-HIVTTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/7bMPthorOfI/s1600-h/4pn.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SPkq-HIVTTI/AAAAAAAAAG0/7bMPthorOfI/s320/4pn.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258281286486019378" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;very interesting talks... probably...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SPksIDifQsI/AAAAAAAAAG8/zBTZA1k4nAw/s1600-h/5pn.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SPksIDifQsI/AAAAAAAAAG8/zBTZA1k4nAw/s320/5pn.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258282556832301762" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is no time to rest, another day is another party...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-86785756179552337?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/86785756179552337/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=86785756179552337' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/86785756179552337'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/86785756179552337'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2008/10/ossa-v-part-1.html' title='OSSA V  - part 1.'/><author><name>Mr. R</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15990376471004412280</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SPkvgu4HwyI/AAAAAAAAAHM/ZUn3VYyr55A/s72-c/7pn.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-4786568349738695215</id><published>2008-10-04T02:03:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-04T02:39:50.708+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Observatory car</title><content type='html'>Today with Mr. Gorzelnia we had to check if everything is all right with observatory car - which is used to travel to Ostrowik Observatory Station. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SOa26cMZGSI/AAAAAAAAADQ/r0dcE_zoQho/s1600-h/caly.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SOa26cMZGSI/AAAAAAAAADQ/r0dcE_zoQho/s320/caly.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253087130491099426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So check-list: head lights - ok, tail lights - perfect , tire pressure - probably ok, wipers - almost god. Now engine, oil - ok but mice are dead -  WHAT THE...?!?!?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SOa2WUyQ8MI/AAAAAAAAADI/CygIN9QHcTw/s1600-h/podklapa.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SOa2WUyQ8MI/AAAAAAAAADI/CygIN9QHcTw/s320/podklapa.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253086510027174082" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I even didn't know that mice are used for something in car engines! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SOa3GJOsH_I/AAAAAAAAADY/J2dP90EaMqw/s1600-h/napatelni.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SOa3GJOsH_I/AAAAAAAAADY/J2dP90EaMqw/s320/napatelni.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253087331558891506" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... and, what is worst, I don't know, if the car will work with dead mice. Anyway we will never open the trunk...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-4786568349738695215?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/4786568349738695215/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=4786568349738695215' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/4786568349738695215'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/4786568349738695215'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2008/10/observatory-car.html' title='Observatory car'/><author><name>Mr. R</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15990376471004412280</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SOa26cMZGSI/AAAAAAAAADQ/r0dcE_zoQho/s72-c/caly.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-1178456524350141553</id><published>2008-10-04T01:45:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-04T02:35:26.768+02:00</updated><title type='text'>YOAAW project - attack of the clones</title><content type='html'>Our faithful reader, Kozak (his nickname in polish means something like bandit from far west, south or anything...) provided us with pictures of &lt;a href="http://astro.uchicago.edu/yerkes/"&gt;Yerkes Observatory&lt;/a&gt; in Chicago. I'am starting to suspect some kind of conspiracy or plot, because it's also YELLOW!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SOa5wo4ogZI/AAAAAAAAADg/X6PlmvNYkqQ/s1600-h/yeeerks.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SOa5wo4ogZI/AAAAAAAAADg/X6PlmvNYkqQ/s320/yeeerks.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253090260634075538" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-1178456524350141553?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/1178456524350141553/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=1178456524350141553' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/1178456524350141553'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/1178456524350141553'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2008/10/yoaaw-project-attack-of-clones.html' title='YOAAW project - attack of the clones'/><author><name>Mr. R</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15990376471004412280</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SOa5wo4ogZI/AAAAAAAAADg/X6PlmvNYkqQ/s72-c/yeeerks.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-1780688385521179414</id><published>2008-10-02T17:10:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-02T18:32:42.463+02:00</updated><title type='text'>What space?!</title><content type='html'>Almost year ago, our friend from Warsaw University of Technology TV proposed us to make a short film related to astronomy. Film had it's premiere in November, and during that show we were trying to disappear.. or at least not to show who we are... but we were wrong... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Few days ago, authors and director of that film (Piotrek i Kuba), were awarded on Popular-science film festival in Sopot, and the justification was something like this: "For passion dedicated to popularization of science (and patients to astronomers)". &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tvpw.pl/art7461"&gt;watch "Ale kosmos!"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, first... put your attention on Mr. Gorzelnia part... no one can understand what is he saying... even people that are working on the same project... after all I'm not sure if he really does.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-1780688385521179414?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/1780688385521179414/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=1780688385521179414' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/1780688385521179414'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/1780688385521179414'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2008/10/what-space.html' title='What space?!'/><author><name>Mr. R</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15990376471004412280</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-422445970024914550</id><published>2008-10-01T19:00:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-01T19:09:14.767+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Maybe YOAAW project?</title><content type='html'>So, after finding another yellow observatory in Poznan we begin to think about beginning new project: Yellow Observatories All Around the World. If You have seen yellow observatory and it's not described here, please tell us! It would be great to supply us with pictures of it, too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Better propositions for name of the project welcome.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is observatory in Poznan:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SOOuDvMasXI/AAAAAAAAABc/2bPV4bL8VW4/s1600-h/poznan.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SOOuDvMasXI/AAAAAAAAABc/2bPV4bL8VW4/s400/poznan.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252232969675518322" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-422445970024914550?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/422445970024914550/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=422445970024914550' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/422445970024914550'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/422445970024914550'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2008/10/maybe-yoaaw-project.html' title='Maybe YOAAW project?'/><author><name>Gorzelnia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08687191317668715367</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SOOuDvMasXI/AAAAAAAAABc/2bPV4bL8VW4/s72-c/poznan.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-5995302354225649945</id><published>2008-09-30T02:18:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-01T01:22:16.155+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='observatory'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='neuchatel'/><title type='text'>Astronomical institute</title><content type='html'>one more thing...&lt;br /&gt;Do You know why I put this image here? Because that observatory in Neuchatel is yellow!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Once again I was right... :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SOFw0JcYt4I/AAAAAAAAAC4/PWM5FkTWff8/s1600-h/yellneou.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SOFw0JcYt4I/AAAAAAAAAC4/PWM5FkTWff8/s320/yellneou.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251602681681196930" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-5995302354225649945?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/5995302354225649945/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=5995302354225649945' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/5995302354225649945'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/5995302354225649945'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2008/09/astronomical-institute_30.html' title='Astronomical institute'/><author><name>Mr. R</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15990376471004412280</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SOFw0JcYt4I/AAAAAAAAAC4/PWM5FkTWff8/s72-c/yellneou.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-1278044975498573075</id><published>2008-09-29T12:41:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-29T12:53:08.056+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Neuchatel</title><content type='html'>Here You have wideangle view of Neuchatel.&lt;br /&gt;It's the best in bigger version, zoomed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SOCy-EqZm7I/AAAAAAAAAAs/Kg5gP81cOrA/s1600-h/neuchatel_wideangle.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SOCy-EqZm7I/AAAAAAAAAAs/Kg5gP81cOrA/s400/neuchatel_wideangle.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251393944987212722" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-1278044975498573075?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/1278044975498573075/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=1278044975498573075' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/1278044975498573075'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/1278044975498573075'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2008/09/neuchatel.html' title='Neuchatel'/><author><name>Gorzelnia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08687191317668715367</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SOCy-EqZm7I/AAAAAAAAAAs/Kg5gP81cOrA/s72-c/neuchatel_wideangle.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-8665747584833662492</id><published>2008-09-22T17:54:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-22T18:27:18.271+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ostrowik'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Observations'/><title type='text'>Our observations</title><content type='html'>So we have made some frames for our project named OCO (see &lt;a href="http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/~mgorski/oco.html"&gt;OCO&lt;/a&gt;). After first reductions and data analysis we've got "the graph":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SNfGOJZYeaI/AAAAAAAAAAk/AFc0aPKZfY4/s1600-h/shift.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SNfGOJZYeaI/AAAAAAAAAAk/AFc0aPKZfY4/s320/shift.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248881837066451362" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you can see it looks rather like a baby drawing than a scientific plot, but it's not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No matter what it shows, but it's the very first plot made for checking if all reductions goes well. They don't, it says...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-8665747584833662492?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/8665747584833662492/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=8665747584833662492' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/8665747584833662492'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/8665747584833662492'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2008/09/our-observations.html' title='Our observations'/><author><name>Gorzelnia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08687191317668715367</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SNfGOJZYeaI/AAAAAAAAAAk/AFc0aPKZfY4/s72-c/shift.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-3199371895238635125</id><published>2008-09-18T19:35:00.012+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-18T21:27:45.745+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='conference'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='neuchatel'/><title type='text'>8th EANA Workshop - Neuchatel</title><content type='html'>The conference took place in "space-x institute" (cool name) in Neuchatel - it's a city in&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;Jurassic mountains - whoooo ... we found no dinosaurs....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SNKTbXIcGpI/AAAAAAAAACY/u6D8IxBHlkE/s1600-h/widok.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SNKTbXIcGpI/AAAAAAAAACY/u6D8IxBHlkE/s320/widok.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247418614115211922" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Oh, what a view...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SNKUaIV0ywI/AAAAAAAAACg/sxh_NOlH9t4/s1600-h/rower.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SNKUaIV0ywI/AAAAAAAAACg/sxh_NOlH9t4/s320/rower.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247419692476582658" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;In Neuchatel we borrowed bicycles, but we forgot about the Mountains. Travel time from hotel to conference centre is 30 minutes; opposite direction more than 2 hours :|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SNKlSuLw2qI/AAAAAAAAACo/CMvvzFX0JRs/s1600-h/koniec.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SNKlSuLw2qI/AAAAAAAAACo/CMvvzFX0JRs/s320/koniec.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247438256893647522" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Last day we had free time before the flight, so we visited Zurich... and local pubs. Next year we'll meet in Brussels.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-3199371895238635125?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/3199371895238635125/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=3199371895238635125' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/3199371895238635125'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/3199371895238635125'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2008/09/8th-eana-neuchatel.html' title='8th EANA Workshop - Neuchatel'/><author><name>Mr. R</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15990376471004412280</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SNKTbXIcGpI/AAAAAAAAACY/u6D8IxBHlkE/s72-c/widok.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-5272076907289785568</id><published>2008-09-18T18:20:00.009+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-18T21:10:38.565+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='conference'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='neuchatel'/><title type='text'>8th EANA Workshop - Science</title><content type='html'>Three days of lectures and poster sessions - about searching for life in the solar system, origins of Life, exoplanets and other strange things. Apart of people from Europe, scientist from USA (also NASA), Japan, China and Mexico took part in conference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SNKJLTqY-AI/AAAAAAAAACQ/QaPFnWy3fWo/s1600-h/P2020149.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SNKJLTqY-AI/AAAAAAAAACQ/QaPFnWy3fWo/s320/P2020149.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247407343189686274" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We had two posters, but we would like to forget about them... maybe someday we'll make it right!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SNKIuTZoYUI/AAAAAAAAACA/_8TOhdJGIXU/s1600-h/P2020115.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SNKIuTZoYUI/AAAAAAAAACA/_8TOhdJGIXU/s320/P2020115.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247406844903186754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"Yeaaa... actually we don't know what is on that plot... but it has to be somehow connected with astronomy... I think... "&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-5272076907289785568?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/5272076907289785568/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=5272076907289785568' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/5272076907289785568'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/5272076907289785568'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2008/09/8th-eana-workshop-science.html' title='8th EANA Workshop - Science'/><author><name>Mr. R</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15990376471004412280</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SNKJLTqY-AI/AAAAAAAAACQ/QaPFnWy3fWo/s72-c/P2020149.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-4352527060307871017</id><published>2008-09-10T17:28:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-18T14:55:12.305+02:00</updated><title type='text'>8th European Astrobiology Workshop</title><content type='html'>Last week in Neuchatel (Switzerland) took place a conference organised by European Astrobiology Network Asociation. Ok, one can think, nothing special, but they had travel grants for participants and we have never been in Switzerland. Soon more news from Suisse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SMVW1USQUkI/AAAAAAAAAAM/zmj_Dx4l6S8/s320/eana.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SMVW1USQUkI/AAAAAAAAAAM/zmj_Dx4l6S8/s320/eana.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-4352527060307871017?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/4352527060307871017/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=4352527060307871017' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/4352527060307871017'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/4352527060307871017'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2008/09/8th-european-astrobiology-workshop.html' title='8th European Astrobiology Workshop'/><author><name>Gorzelnia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08687191317668715367</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mFHqkH-LHbg/SMVW1USQUkI/AAAAAAAAAAM/zmj_Dx4l6S8/s72-c/eana.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-1214916316205428385</id><published>2008-09-10T17:28:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-17T16:08:54.295+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Ostrowik observatory station</title><content type='html'>Last weak we've (Mr. Gorzelnia, Grzes Wiktorowicz and Mua) started to observe some astronomical object in our northern (yes, we are living at far north - 52 deg.) observational station in Ostrowik.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About Ostrowik one can read &lt;a href="http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/~nalezyty/ostrowik"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SLdDb_36jII/AAAAAAAAABo/uxZgwknL8kU/s320/ostro1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SLdDb_36jII/AAAAAAAAABo/uxZgwknL8kU/s320/ostro1.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That is building of our 60 cm. telescope. That corrugated plate around walls is a kind of cooler... that means inside temperature is lower than outside... cool... intriguing yeah?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SLdDVjhexHI/AAAAAAAAABg/HzbJmLx4UOs/s320/ostro2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SLdDVjhexHI/AAAAAAAAABg/HzbJmLx4UOs/s320/ostro2.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That is our 60cm. telescope itself... actually mass production; but it's cool, it makes noise and rotate!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SLdDQhnk3fI/AAAAAAAAABY/NofCNeciJL0/s320/ostro3.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SLdDQhnk3fI/AAAAAAAAABY/NofCNeciJL0/s320/ostro3.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh yeah... that is Mr. Gorzelnia and Me in telescope control room - you can control from here ccd camera, your mail, facebook, but not telescope - for that you have to run upstairs...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-1214916316205428385?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/1214916316205428385/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=1214916316205428385' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/1214916316205428385'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/1214916316205428385'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2008/09/ostrowik-observatory-station.html' title='Ostrowik observatory station'/><author><name>Gorzelnia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08687191317668715367</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SLdDb_36jII/AAAAAAAAABo/uxZgwknL8kU/s72-c/ostro1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-842855059327411528</id><published>2008-09-10T17:27:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-17T16:06:40.829+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Astronomical institute</title><content type='html'>Do You ever wonder how Astronomical institute looks? No? Me either, but look at Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory, the place where we are studding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SKxgG8VTRJI/AAAAAAAAABI/N3QM_CEoTqA/s320/warsaw_oa.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SKxgG8VTRJI/AAAAAAAAABI/N3QM_CEoTqA/s320/warsaw_oa.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And now look at Prague Astronomical Observatory, do You find any similarities?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SKxgpr6uCwI/AAAAAAAAABQ/FJlkBXGvspQ/s320/prague_oa.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SKxgpr6uCwI/AAAAAAAAABQ/FJlkBXGvspQ/s320/prague_oa.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes! It's yellow, and it's (what You can't see) close to botanic garden!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally posted by Mr. R at 2:29 AM, August 29, 2008&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-842855059327411528?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/842855059327411528/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=842855059327411528' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/842855059327411528'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/842855059327411528'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2008/09/astronomical-institute.html' title='Astronomical institute'/><author><name>Gorzelnia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08687191317668715367</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SKxgG8VTRJI/AAAAAAAAABI/N3QM_CEoTqA/s72-c/warsaw_oa.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-7307937901095216384</id><published>2008-09-10T17:26:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-10T17:32:36.954+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Mr. Gorzelnia</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SKxcepnz7cI/AAAAAAAAAA4/9reD31E697k/s320/gorzelnia.JPG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SKxcepnz7cI/AAAAAAAAAA4/9reD31E697k/s320/gorzelnia.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is how exactly Mr. Gorzelnia looks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally posted by Mr. R at 08-08-20, 8:02 PM &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-7307937901095216384?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/7307937901095216384/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=7307937901095216384' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/7307937901095216384'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/7307937901095216384'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2008/09/mr-gorzelnia.html' title='Mr. Gorzelnia'/><author><name>Gorzelnia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08687191317668715367</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YZ-r5-fL0iM/SKxcepnz7cI/AAAAAAAAAA4/9reD31E697k/s72-c/gorzelnia.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-3728979384146346632</id><published>2008-09-10T17:25:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-10T17:26:52.434+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Gorzelnia</title><content type='html'>Pomysłodawcą stworzenia tego bloga jest Michał, ukrywający się pod pseudonimem "gorzelnia". Jest gdzieś pomiędzy drugim a czwartym rokiem studiów astronomicznych UW, co oznacza że statystycznie pozostało mu około 7.23 lat studiów; jeżeli się postara ma szanse skończyć wcześniej!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jest zamieszany w kilka projektów naukowo-rozrywkowych. Warto nadmienić że jest szefem koła naukowego astronomów... oczywiście stanowisko to uzyskał po zakulisowych rozgrywkach poprzednich władz...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jego długie włosy sugerują niejasną i burzliwą przeszłość związaną z muzyką rockową i metalową, a tak w zasadzie to po prostu burzliwą i niejasną przeszłość...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-3728979384146346632?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/3728979384146346632/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=3728979384146346632' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/3728979384146346632'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/3728979384146346632'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2008/09/gorzelnia.html' title='Gorzelnia'/><author><name>Gorzelnia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08687191317668715367</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-6435315095177175696</id><published>2008-09-10T17:24:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-10T17:25:17.437+02:00</updated><title type='text'>About us</title><content type='html'>Ponieważ nie byłoby zabawy, gdyby każdy z nas napisał coś o sobie, a wypadałoby przybliżyc nasze postaci ogółowi postanowiliśmy, że każdy napisze coś o innym.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. R,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;jest studentem prawdopodobnie 5. roku astronomi. Chyba. W każdym razie w przerwach między słuchaniem Gaby Kulki i różnych innych smentów zajmuje się pisaniem pracy magisterskiej.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oprócz tego zajmuje się komplikowaniem prostych rzeczy, po to tylko, żeby tak. Ponoc jest to też objaw walki z systemem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jest też pacyfistą i nigdy nie pójdzie do Wojska (tereaz nie jest to już takie trudne - nie pójśc...), za zawsze chciał zostać Ochotniczym Strażakiem Pożarniczym (OSP)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ponadto nie lubi Italo PoP (dziwne, nie?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;;)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-6435315095177175696?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/6435315095177175696/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=6435315095177175696' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/6435315095177175696'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/6435315095177175696'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2008/09/about-us.html' title='About us'/><author><name>Gorzelnia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08687191317668715367</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455773510397320733.post-7618473083984026527</id><published>2008-09-10T17:21:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-10T17:24:49.657+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Introduction</title><content type='html'>Hi, we would like to describe you life and work of astronomy students, well - almost young astronomers...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meet us, Mr. Gorzelnia and I, Mr. R.&lt;br /&gt;Soon you will meet more of us!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6455773510397320733-7618473083984026527?l=boring-astronomers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/feeds/7618473083984026527/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6455773510397320733&amp;postID=7618473083984026527' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/7618473083984026527'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6455773510397320733/posts/default/7618473083984026527'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boring-astronomers.blogspot.com/2008/09/introduction.html' title='Introduction'/><author><name>Gorzelnia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08687191317668715367</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
