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    Archive for September, 2010
    22
    Sep

    Participation to European scientific conferences

    Comments Off on Participation to European scientific conferencesNewsSeptember 22nd, 2010wpadmin

    Participation to two major European scientific conferences:

    * JENAM 2010, The European Week of Astronomy and Space Science (Lisboa, Portugal), http://www.jenam2010.org/

    * EPSC 2010, The European Planetary Science Congress (Roma, Italy), http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc2010/

    My presentation and poster (see poster herebelow attached) focused on promoting the project and providing some preliminary results, almost one year after its launch under the umbrella of the International Year of Astronomy.

    Poster: poster_ds_final_n

    15
    Sep

    Mysterious lights in game-camera were a camera glitch

    No commentsBlogSeptember 15th, 2010Philippe

    North Texas (30 August 2010): A motion-activated camera at a hunting spot had captured some mysterious objects. The pictures analysed by the Mutual UFO network (MUFON) proved to be a camera’s mechanical error. 

    Pictures at: http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/weird/Sorry-Its-Not-a-UFO-101851588.html











    NBC DFW WEBSITE: The photographs captured by the game camera in Archer City showed a series of lights hovering above the treeline, seemingly for hours. Lisa Brock-Piekarski, who set up the camera on her family’s deer lease, didn’t know what to think of them. The pictures were sent to the folks at MUFON, but its chief investigator e-mailed to say the pics were nothing but a mechanical error. “For some unknown reason, the camera shutter was remaining open, and the infrared strobe fired it would catch a bank of lights,” said Fletcher L. Gray, Texas MUFON chief investigator. “The strobe has 14 LED-type bulbs across and with five bulbs vertical, with a total of 70 LED bulbs. If you look at the photo of the what was called a UFO, you will count 14 lights that matches the 14 bulbs in the camera.”

    15
    Sep

    TWAN – Mystery 3

    No commentsBlogSeptember 15th, 2010Philippe

     

     

     

     

     

    The World at Night has posted its third mystery: What are the streak at the right edge of this image near the belt of Orion? The streaks in the above image taken near Ankara, Turkey on 12 August 2007 would be identified at first glance as meteors from the Perseids meteor shower peaking just that night. Unexpectedly, however, these streaks do not point back to the Perseids radiant in Perseus (top center). Then what is their origin? The above image is a composite of several shots captured over the time span of 40 minutes….

    Read the full story and feel free to propose an explanation at the following link:
    http://www.twanight.org/newTWAN/mystery.asp