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The Copernicus House in Toruń is a historic, Gothic tenement house that belonged to the Copernicus family in the second half of the 15th century. That is why many historians consider it the birthplace of Nicolaus Copernicus.
The tenement house was built in 1370 as so-called granaries-home, which in the Middle Ages served both residential and storage functions.
In the years 1972-1973 the tenement house was restored. The facade of the tenement house was also renovated, restoring its Gothic medieval style.
Since 1973, the building houses the Nicolaus Copernicus Museum.
In 1997, the buildings in the Old Town were inscribed on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List.
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Dom Kopernika w Toruniu to zabytkowa, gotycka kamienica, która w drugiej połowie XV wieku należała do rodziny Koperników. Dlatego przez wielu historyków uznawana jest za miejsce narodzin Mikołaja Kopernika.
Kamienica była wybudowana w 1370 roku jako tak zwanych spichlerzodom, który w średniowieczu spełniał zarówno funkcje mieszkalne, jak i magazynowe.
W latach 1972 – 1973 kamienicę odrestaurowano. Wyremontowano także fasadę kamienicy, przywracając jej gotycki średniowieczny styl.
Od 1973 roku w kamienicy mieści się Muzeum Mikołaja Kopernika.
W 1997 roku zabudowa Starego Miasta została wpisana na Listę Światowego Dziedzictwa Kulturowego UNESCO.
The Nicolaus Copernicus Monument in Warsaw is one of the Polish capital's notable landmarks. It stands before the Staszic Palace, the seat of the Polish Academy of Sciences on Krakowskie Przedmieście. Designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen in 1822, it was completed in 1830. Thorvaldsen's original plaster model from 1822 and a smaller study from 1821 are both held by the Thorvaldsen Museum in Copenhagen.
The monument features a bronze statue of Renaissance astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (Polish: Mikołaj Kopernik) holding a compass and armillary sphere.
The Staszic Palace is a building purchased in 1818 by Stanisław Staszic, a leading figure of the Polish Enlightenment, who commissioned its renovation. The architect in charge was Antonio Corazzi, who redesigned the palace in neoclassical style. After the renovation (1820–23), Staszic donated the building to the Society of Friends of Science, the first Polish learned society dedicated to Science, founded in 1800.
On 11 May 1830 the diplomat and polymath, Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, unveiled Bertel Thorvaldsen's monument to Nicolaus Copernicus in front of the palace.
Pre-dawn Waning Gibbous Moon.
I haven't done a lunar capture in some time and was up at 5am. The Moon was directly above in a clear sky. This made it difficult to use the EVF so had to focus with the LCD screen pulled out. Fortunately it was in focus. Very nice details of Copernicus.
Copernicus resides in the moon's northwest quadrant in the Oceanus Procellarum and is one of the most striking on the moon.
The crater is some 90km in diameter.
This is a second image of the crater during the session but this time I used a focal extender on my Celestron C11 SCT.
Again the terraced walls of the lower side of the crater, along with the craters central mountains, are being strongly illuminated by the rising sun. In contrast the upper side of the crater remains in inky darkness.
The crater is surrounded by an ejecta blanket and this is nicely highlighted in this image with textured detail.
The floor topology shows one quadrant (on the left) is comparatively smooth in contrast to the boulder strewn appearance of the remaining quadrants.
Imaged with a Celestron C11SCT, Focal Extender and a ZWO290MM camera/Baader Long pass filter.
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Warsaw as the capital of Poland is like an open book of Polish history. Perfect to learn and take photos.
In this photo, you can see a bronze statue of the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen in 1822.
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The photo was taken by Nico Trinkhaus
Copernicus crater imaged from London on the 12th January 2022.
Celestron Edge HD11 scope, Televue 2.5x Powermate & ASI174MM camera with Baader 685nm IR pass filter
That's definitely one of my favorite regions to shoot.
Image taken at 2.700mm focal length. Seeing conditions were quite good that night.
Saturation and contrast are increased to highlight the mineral composition of the moon's surface.
Lunar craters Reinhold, Copernicus & Eratosthenes imaged from London on the 21st April 2021.
Celestron Edge HD11 scope & ZWO ASI174MM camera
The Copernicus crater in the center of the image. Next to it, the Carpatus Mountains and, higher up, the Erathostenes crater. The almost imperceptible outline of the Stadius, towards the end of Erthostenes towards Copernicus, and Sinus Aestuum complete the lunar landscape.
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Maksutov-Cassegrain Telescope "Explore Scientific" 127, f/15.
Player One Neptune-M Camera.
Player One IR685 filter.
December 22, 2023, 02:41 UT.
Rural area, Concordia, Entre Ríos, Argentina.
En el centro de la parte inferior y en la línea del terminador, el cráter lunar Copérnico.
At the bottom center and on the terminator line, the lunar crater Copernicus.
Imaged during the evening of the 21st April 2021 and the rising sun's light has began to illuminate the great crater Copernicus.
The terraced walls of the left side of crater are being strongly illuminated together with the central peaks of Copernicus.
Most of the right hand side of the crater remains in inky darkness with the peaks of the crater's rim forming beautiful silhouettes.
The ejecta blanket surrounding the crater is also nicely highlighted showing a lot of textured detail. About three quarters of the floor of Copernicus is boulder strewn. The top left quadrant (visible in this image) is by contrast comparatively smooth!
Copernicus forms a nice duo with crater Eratosthenes mostly in the frame upper right.
Between the two and slightly to the right the ghostly outline of flooded crater Stadius can be discerned. The crater has been almost obliterated by basaltic lava flows in the millennia since its formation....
Imaged with a Celestron C11 SCT and a ZWO290MM camera/Baader long pass filter.
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Craters Copernicus & Eratosthenes and the Montes Apenninus imaged from London on 18th October 2018
Celestron Edge HD11 scope, ASI174MM camera & Canon EOS 6D
Copernicus crater imaged from London in fantastic seeing on the 13th May 2019.
Celestron Edge HD11, Televue 2.5x Powermate & ASI174MM camera
ZWO ASI178MC
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
Captured 1000 frames with Firecapture
Stacked best 75% with Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpened with Registax
Finished with Photoshop to include oversaturating colors
The Copernicus, Eratosthenes, and Reinhold craters of the Moon as imaged using a Questar 3.5-inch Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope and a vintage Celestron Ultima SV-Series 2x Barlow lens with a ZWO ASI224MC planetary astro CMOS camera.
5000 frames were captured in SharpCap 4.0, with the best 32% aligned and stacked in Autostakkert!3, with wavelet sharpening in Registax 6. Final touches were made in Adobe CS5 and Luminar Neo.
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Pomnik Mikołaja Kopernika na tle Pałacu Staszica, siedziby Polskiej Akademii Nauk /
Nicolaus Copernicus Monument in the background of the Staszic Palace, the seat of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Sunrise over crater Copernicus. Imaged from London on the 22nd March 2021.
Celestron Edge HD11 scope and ASI174MM camera
"Copernicus Crater"
April 2, 2020
Copernicus crater (93 km width, 3.8 km depth) is one of the most prominent features on the Moon, easily seen with binoculars, even during the full moon phase, sitting in its webwork of rays.
Here it is seen at high magnification. Its rays are discernable, especially in the lower right. Notice the myriad secondary craters surrounding it, most gouged by rocks blasted up by the original impact explosion, each digging a new crater of its own when it fell back to the Moon. The raised outer rampart walls are prominent, as are the terraced inner walls and central peak. Rubble (massive boulders) is strewn about the crater floor, especially in the southern half.
Celestron Edge HD8 telescope
Explore Scientific Focus Extender 3x
ZWO ASI 290MM camera
Celestron Advanced VX Mount
The 93Km wide crater Copernicus is one of the most famous features on the moon. The 2min. HD video capture by my Huawei P9 phone was converted to 2900 individual frames. They were stacked and only the 175 best was merged to a single picture.
Celestron 9, 25 inch aperture SCT evolution telescope with a Baader Planetarium 8mm ocular projection via an NeXYZ smartphone adapter equivalent to 294X magnification.
Copernicus imaged from London on 25th April 2018.
This image is a bit of an experiment as the luminance layer was taken using an ASI174MM mono planetary camera with 685nm IR pass filter and the colour from a shot of the same region taken using a Canon EOS 6D DSLR. Both images were taken through a Celestron Edge HD11 scope.
Saturation has been increased, I was surprised by how easy this technique is and will use it again!
Copernicus is a lunar impact crater located in eastern Oceanus Procellarum. It was named after the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. It typifies craters that formed during the Copernican period in that it has a prominent ray system. Wikipedia
Diameter: 93,000 m
Depth: 3,800 m
Colongitude: 20
Eponym: Nicolaus Copernicus
Many of you would know that the 16th century astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was the first to present to the world a detailed and eventually widely accepted mathematical model supporting the premise that the Earth is moving and the Sun actually stays still, despite the impression from our point of view of a moving Sun. Wiki
Excerpt from www.citywindsor.ca/residents/Culture/Monuments/Pages/Astr...:
Jackson Park
Col. Jan Jazwinski P.E., Czester Sadowski, Citizens of Polish Origin & Descent
Astrolabium & Sun Dial of M. Kopernik, 1954
Bronze, granite, 450 (estimate) x 155 x 155 centimetres
Bronze plaque inscription:
Astrolabium & Sun Dial
of M. Kopernik (Copernicus)
1473 - 1543
"Father of Modern Astronomy"
Polish Astronomer of the University
of Cracow
who calculated the basic fundamentals
of modern astronomy in his work
"De Revolution Tibus Oribium Celestium" (1543)
Bronze plaque inscription:
1854 - 1954
To the City of Windsor
on the celebration of its
Centennial Year
From citizens
of Polish origin and descent
July 11, 1954.
Bronze plaque inscription:
Designed by
Col. Jan Jazwinski P.E.
& erected under
auspices of
Czester Sadowski
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Galápagos Islands – a volcanic archipelago situated some 1000 km west of Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean.
The archipelago consists of 13 major islands and a handful of smaller islands and islets scattered across approximately 60 000 sq km of ocean. Repeated volcanic eruptions and ongoing seismic activity have helped form the rugged mountain landscape of the islands. In this image, captured on 23 September 2020, several circular volcanic cones can be seen atop the islands.
The largest island of the archipelago, Isabela (Albemarle), is visible in the centre. Around 132 km in length, the island’s seahorse shape is the result of the merging of multiple large volcanoes into a single land mass. The five volcanoes seen on the island are (from north to south): Wolf Volcano, Darwin Volcano, Alcedo Volcano, Sierra Negra Volcano and Cerro Azul Volcano. Two of the island’s volcanoes, Ecuador and Wolf, lie directly on the Equator.
At the southern end of the island, hills covered with forests can be seen in bright green, separating the Sierra Negra, the most active of the Galapagos volcanoes, from the sandy coastline (partially visible here owing to cloud cover). Tortuga Island, named for its distinct shape, can be seen southeast from Isabela. The tiny island is actually a collapsed volcano that is a nesting location for a variety of seabirds.
The second largest island of the archipelago, Santa Cruz, can be seen to the right of Isabela. Its capital, Puerto Ayora (not visible), is the most populated urban centre in the islands.
The Galápagos Islands are best known for their diverse array of plant and animal species, many of which are endemic meaning they are not found anywhere else in the world. These include the giant Galapagos tortoise, the marine iguana, the flightless cormorant and the Galapagos penguin – the only species of penguin that lives north of the equator.
These species were observed by Charles Darwin during the voyage of the HMS Beagle in 1835 and inspired his theory of evolution by natural selection. To preserve the unique wildlife on the islands, the Ecuadorian government made the entire archipelago a national park in 1959.
Copernicus Sentinel-2 is a two-satellite mission. Each satellite carries a high-resolution camera that images Earth’s surface in 13 spectral bands. The mission is mostly used to track changes in the way land is being used and to monitor the health of our vegetation.
This image is also featured on the Earth from Space video programme.
Credits: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2020), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO