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Mission control team in the main control room at ESA's ESOC mision control centre on 21 Nov 2020, just a few hours prior to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Credit: ESA/J. Mai
Mission control team in the main control room at ESA's ESOC mision control centre on 21 Nov 2020, just a few hours prior to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Credit: ESA/J. Mai
This bronze statue of Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (Mikołaj Kopernik) is located on Krakowskie Przedmieście, in front of the Staszic Palace, the seat of the Polish Academy of Sciences. It was designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen in 1822 and completed in 1830. The monument was funded by the scientist and philosopher Stanisław Staszic as well as donations from the general public.
Soon after the German occupation of Warsaw began in 1939, they placed a large plaque over the statue’s pedestal, proclaiming Copernicus to have been German....
On 11th February 1942, a "minor sabotage" operation was carried out by Maciej Aleksy Dawidowski (code name “Alek”), a young Polish resistance fighter from the “Szare Szeregi” organisation, who removed and hid the German plaque.
Minor sabotage: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_sabotage
The Germans responded by removing the Jan Kiliński statue from Krasińskich Square and hiding it in the vaults of the National Museum. Dawidowski and his comrades in the Szare Szeregi retaliated by daubing the museum with graffiti which stated: "People of Warsaw - I am here - Jan Kiliński", and adding a new plaque to the Copernicus monument on which they had written the following words: "For the removal of the Kiliński statue I am extending winter by two months - Kopernik"....
Szare Szeregi: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_Ranks
The statue was damaged during the Warsaw Uprising, after which the Germans knocked it off its pedestal and subsequently stole it as they were evacuating Warsaw. It was later found in the town of Nysa, restored and replaced in its original location in 1949.
In 2007 a representation of Copernicus’ solar system, modelled after an image in his “De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium”, was embedded in the square in front of the monument.
In 2017 a plaque commemorating Dawidowski’s action was placed next to the monument.
There are replicas of the Copernicus monument in Montreal and Chicago....
Wroclaw Copernicus Airport -
Port Lotniczy Wrocław im. Mikołaja Kopernika
Location: Strachowice, Wroclaw, Poland
Built: 2009-2012
Architects: JSK Architekci (Poland)
Total area: 40815 m2
Cubature: 328140 m3
Cost: 296 mln PLN
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Mission control team in the main control room at ESA's ESOC mision control centre on 21 Nov 2020, just a few hours prior to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Credit: ESA/J. Mai
Telescopio: Celestron C90
Camara: ZWO ASI120MM
Montura: Quasar Eq5 Synscan
Frames: 5000
Df: 1200 mm.
F: 14
Captura: Fire Capture
Procesado: Autostakkert 2, Registax 6, Fitsworks 4, Pixinsight 1.8, Lr5.
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Port Lotniczy Wrocław im. Mikołaja Kopernika
Location: Strachowice, Wroclaw
Built: 2009-2012
Project: JSK Architekci
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Wieliczka is a town (2005 population: 18,590) in southern Poland in the Kraków metropolitan area.
Located under the town of Wieliczka is one of the world's oldest operating salt mines (the oldest is at Bochnia, Poland, 20 kilometers from Wieliczka), which has been worked since prehistoric times.
The mine is also notable for a long tradition of tourism: the famous, breath-taking site has been visited over the centuries by Nicolaus Copernicus, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Alexander von Humboldt, Dmitri Mendeleev, Bolesław Prus, Ignacy Paderewski, Robert Baden-Powell, Karol Wojtyła (the later Pope John Paul II), crowned heads, as well as hosts of ordinary people.
During World War II, the salt mine was used by the occupying Germans as housing for war-related production plants.
The awe-inspiring, ancient labyrinthine salt mine helped inspire the Labyrinth scenes in Bolesław Prus' 1895 historical novel, Pharaoh.
In 1978 the Wieliczka salt mine was entered into the original UNESCO roster of World Heritage Sites. The salt mine forms an "underground town" with churches, lakes and passages.
Read more at my blog: www.irish-guy.com/2004_04_03_archive.html
Mission control team in the main control room at ESA's ESOC mision control centre on 21 Nov 2020, just a few hours prior to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Credit: ESA/J. Mai
Mission control team in the main control room at ESA's ESOC mision control centre on 21 Nov 2020, just a few hours prior to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Credit: ESA/J. Mai
El Monumento a Nicolás Copérnico en Varsovia, es uno de los monumentos notables de la capital polaca. Se encuentra frente al Palacio Staszic, la sede de la Academia Polaca de Ciencias en Krakowskie Przedmiescie. Diseñado por Bertel Thorvaldsen en 1822, se terminó en 1830. "Referencia Wikipedia."
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Taken with a Samsung S3, skywatcher 130p, 25 mm sp and a 3xbarlow. I used the full zoom of the S3 camera. Not great as I couldn't get focus and cloud started to roll in but still, it's only a mobile phone camera!
Port Lotniczy Wrocław im. Mikołaja Kopernika
Location: Strachowice, Wroclaw
Built: 2009-2012
Project: JSK Architekci
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Below left, half lit, we can see the Copernicus crater, a vaguely hexagonal crater about 96 km in diameter.
At the top right, however, the Eratosthenes crater is visible.
The Eratosthenes crater is a crater of about 59 km in diameter in which the central peaks are clearly distinguishable.
Halfway between the 2 craters, slightly shifted downwards, we can see the phantom crater Stadius.
Seeing 6/10
Acquisition data:
Verona, Italy
45 ° 24 'N - 18 ° 59' E
13.12.2021
CET 7:25 pm
Sky-Watcher Newton 200/1000 BD
HEQ5 Pro SynScan
ZWO ASI178 MM
Barlow 2,7x APM
R filter Meade
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Mission control team in the main control room at ESA's ESOC mision control centre on 21 Nov 2020, just a few hours prior to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Credit: ESA/J. Mai
Mission control team in the main control room at ESA's ESOC mision control centre on 21 Nov 2020, just a few hours prior to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Credit: ESA/J. Mai
Mission control team in the main control room at ESA's ESOC mision control centre on 21 Nov 2020, just a few hours prior to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Credit: ESA/J. Mai
Newtonian F=650 mm, D=130 mm, eyepiece 4.7 mm.
Canon SX10IS ISO 100.
Lugar / place / lieu : Cagua, Estado Aragua, Venezuela.
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Copernicus is the crater with rays in the middle of this image. The Lunar Sea, above and to the left of Copernicus is Mare Serenitatis.
I usually don't use a polarizing filter on moon images. however, I was experimenting. Really makes for a dramatic image.
Photographed 4 11 2012 at about 5 a.m. MEADE ETX-90 telescope, Sony 7 megapixel camera, 32mm eyepiece.
Tweaked slightly in Photoshop Elements 9.
Waning Gibbous, 71% illuminated.
Mission control team in the main control room at ESA's ESOC mision control centre on 21 Nov 2020, just a few hours prior to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Credit: ESA/J. Mai
Mission control team in the main control room at ESA's ESOC mision control centre on 21 Nov 2020, just a few hours prior to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Credit: ESA/J. Mai
March 4, Waxing crescent moon 82% illuminated.
Celestron C8 telescope With 2X Barlow and Nikon D5100.
134 video images stacked.
North is at three o'clock
Press "L" to view on Black
Mission control team in the main control room at ESA's ESOC mision control centre on 21 Nov 2020, just a few hours prior to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Credit: ESA/J. Mai