EP01 - Stargazing Malta - Gozo: Ta' Pinu National Shrine
Welcome back to Malta and it’s neighbor island Gozo. At the very south of Europe we visited the Ta’Pinu National Shrine and used the night to photograph the night sky. Here the light pollution is low. It’s early November, windy and cloudy but we hope you like the pictures of the night sky. We got a nice view to Jupiter, Saturn, Capricorn, Cassiopeia, Andromeda, Cepheus, Lizard and the moon.
EP02 - Tswaing Meteorite Crater
Welcome to Tswaing Meteorite Crater near Pretoria in South Africa, our first non-stargazing episode.
The Tswaing Crater is a bowl-shaped geological feature, caused by the impact of a 50m chondrite (stony meteorite) 220 000 years ago, which exploded and vaporized on impact,
The crater can host four simultaneous football matches and a half a million spectators. At Shoemaker Viewpoint you are 60m higher than the surrounding landscape and 100m above the crater floor. The distance to the opposite crater rim is 1.13km. You are standing on top of large granite boulders that were ejected by the force of the meteorite impact. These granite boulders show how weathering (breaking up into small fragments) by lichens takes place. Lichens are minute organisms, consisting of algae and fungi living together. A geologist by training, Dr Eugene Shoemaker was one of the world’s leading experts on craters and the impacts that caused them. He was the first one to prove to the scientific community that the famous Meteor Crater in Arizona (today a successful museum) was the result of, an asteroid impact. He was also involved in several United States space missions, including the Apollo missions to the moon: He taught astronauts about craters before they left Earth. It was Shoemaker who created the field of impact studies and he was the one who started best be remembered for helping to discover comet Shoemaker.
Text by: Tswaing Meteorite Crater Visitors Center / The Geological Society of South Africa
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Photo: Sven Nemeth
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EP03 - Stargazing Malta: Sliema
Welcome back to Malta. It’s time for a SPACE-FRIDAY: PHOTOGRAPHY episode in Sliema. At the night coast of Sliema we used the chance to photograph the night sky in a night with very low light pollution and a good view to the stars. These photos where taken in early November 2021. We got a nice view to Cassiopeia, Andromeda, Cygnus and Lyra.
As in our other documentary productions we count on the technology of the iPhone and this is how the iPhone Xs with the NightSky and NightCap app makes astrophotography. We are happy to present you these first steps and hope to develop and increase the quality of our astrophotography together with you.
EP04 - Stargazing Sandton/Parkmore 2022
Welcome to the clear sky of Parkmore in the north of Johannesburg, South Africa. In this Incredible night we can see the stars of Orion, the constellations Puppis (with it's stars: Naos and nPup), Columba (with it's stars: Kurud 2, Wezn and Phact), Canis Major (with it's star: Phurad) and Lepus (with it's star: 2 Lep) and Sirius. We want to Thank you that you followed SPACE-FRIDAY: PHOTOGRAPHY in 2022 in such a high number. SPACE-FRIDAY: PHOTOGRAPHY will return in 2023 with a new Season and new stargazing's to see.