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NL - In het kader van mijn PhD had ik eind februari weer een buitenlandse conferentie, ditmaal in Wenen. Ik had het allemaal flexibel ingepland: op vrijdagmiddag stond vast dat ik de stad ging verkennen, voor de rest zou ik gaan kijken waar de zon schijnt en die kant op reizen - als het maar richting huis gaat. Ik hoopte aanvankelijk in Oostenrijk te kunnen blijven en dan wel aan de Semmeringbahn, maar vanwege bewolking besloot ik last minute toch de trein richting Duitsland te nemen. Overigens was het de hele reis strakblauw, maar aan de lijn naar Passau bestonden maar beperkt stekken die in deze tijd van het jaar direct bereikbaar zijn vanaf het station. Ik reisde verder naar Würzburg, waar zondag mooi zeer was gepland. Bovendien wou ik naar een qua goederenverkeer 'drukke' baan reizen omdat het aanbod op zondag anders toch echt kan tegenvallen. Op zondag vertrok ik in alle vroegte eerst naar Himmelstadt, waar na de passage van een enkele treinen waaronder een 111 en een 155 (foto's die bij mij helaas niet in de smaak vielen) SETG langskwam met de Belgische (?) sinterdolomiettrein. Helaas had ik in de trein naast mijn werkspullen geen ruimte meer voor een ladder of (hoog)statief, dus moest ik het doen met mijn 1,70m...en mijn lichte 'treinreis' camera, die samen dit plaatje opleveren.
FR - Alors que je retournais chez moi après une conférence, je décidais d'effectuer quelques arrêts photo, rendus possibles par une météo clémente et un billet flexible (le D-ticket). C'est ainsi que la journée du 2 mars 2025 commença à Himmelstadt entre Gemünden et Würzburg, alors que je n'avais à disposition que mon petit APN sans escabeau ni trépied. La première photo 'réussie' se fera en milieu de matinée lors du passage de ce train de dolomite tracté par une Vectron SETG.
This location is located along the busy Gemünden - Würzburg line in the Main valley. This location is easily accessible from Himmelstadt train station. A ladder or pole is recommended but not needed: this picture was taken without.
I'm happy I finished the major parts of my PhD! The work is big, really big, maybe too big (around 360 pages)? However I did a lot of work during the recent years so it is maybe justifiable. I skipped my journey to Etna in November missing this huge eruption and "preferred" working so it must become an excellent work! Well now it is over and parallel to learning for my final exam I continue with my hobbies photography/flickr! Enjoy my pictures and have fun,
Thomas
Bezeichnung des Kameramodells
Canon PowerShot S5 IS
Aufnahmedatum/-zeit: 16.12.2007 18:16
Aufnahmemodus: Auto
Tv (Verschlusszeit): 1/60
Av (Blendenzahl): 2.7
Filmempfindlichkeit (ISO): 80
Objektiv: 6.0 - 72.0mm
Brennweite: 6.0mm
www.addisfortune.com/Mulu Becomes First Woman to Rep. Africans in the World Bank.htm
Mulu Ketsela (PhD), former state minister of Finance and Economic Development before joining the World Bank as an alternate executive director in 2004, has been promoted to full directorship on December 8, 2006, thus becaming the first women to assume such a position in the Bank, representing 22 African countries as her constituency.
According to a World Bank observer, picking a director to the Bank requires negotiations and consent from finance ministers (who are board of governors) meeting to select who collectively could represent them as one of the 24 board of directors in the World Bank, a group of five international organizations based in Washington D.C., and owned by member states, in order to provide finance for economic development and poverty eradications.
Five of the largest shareholders of the Bank -United States (16.4pc), Japan 7.9pc, Germany 4.5pc, United Kingdom (4.3pc), and France (4.3pc) – each directly nominate their representatives in the board of executive directors. Other regions have to vote for their representatives, after going through a selection process and negotiations.
Africa has two seats in the board of directors, where Mulu was appointed to serve for the next two years.
“She has been an alternate member for the past two years,” said a World Bank senior official. “It is expected that she would assume the position.”
As an alternate Executive Director, Mulu has been responsible for choosing which projects receive funding in the region and shaping the policies of the Bank in Africa. She is currently touring a few African countries, including Uganda where she was visiting last week.
It was a successful climb in the ladder of international finance organization from where she was an economic advisor to Meles Zenawi, when he was president between 1992 to 1995.
Prior to joining the Ethiopian government in the early 1990s, Mulu was a consultant for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and taught economics at New York University and John Jay College of Criminal Justice in the late 1980s. She studied economics from undergraduate to doctoral in New York: SUNY New Paltz and New School for Social Research
M36 taken on 09/01/2014 6 x 300 secs subs.
Open Cluster M36 (also known as Messier Object 36, Messier 36, M36, or NGC 1960) is an open cluster in the Auriga constellation. It was discovered by Giovanni Batista Hodierna before 1654. M36 is at a distance of about 4,100 light years away from Earth and is about 14 light years across. There are at least sixty members in the cluster. The cluster is very similar to the Pleiades cluster (M45), and if it were the same distance from Earth it would be of similar magnitude.
Camera: QHY8L CCD cooled to -20C
Guiding: PHD 9x50 Finder Scope,QHY5 Mono with IR filter ( Finder Guider )
Optics: Skywatcher ED80,Skywatcher 0.85x focal reducer
Filter: Astronomik CLS Filter
Mount: Skywatcher AZ EQ6-GT GEQ & Alt-Az Mount connected to the Sky X and Eqmod via HitecAstro EQDIR adapter
Image Acquisition: Maxim DL 5
Stacking and Calibrating: Pixinsight 1.8
Processing: Pixinsight 1.8
UH BME Phd. student Pinar Kanlikilicer in the BME lab.. strobist: light with grid far right on face, light with grid left on hair and light with gel on background. Fired with pocket wizards.
Piled High and Deep. A heaping pile of snow.
Here in the snow belt they have to use front end loaders to clear snow. they also have to truck it out to a park.
This pile looks to be 40’+
Average snow fall is 10’-12’
Scope/Mount: TS-Optics PhotoLine 130mm F7 APO Refractor with Astro-Tech AT2FF Field-flattener, Celestron CI-700 Mount
Camera: ZWO ASI1600MMC monochrome with ZWO LRGB and Ha, Oiii, Sii filters
Guiding: QHY5L-IIM through Orion Thin OAG, PHD guiding software
Exposure: L:(90) 120 secs @ gain=139, RGB: each channel (10) 120 sec @ gain=139
Software: Nebulosity, Pixinsight
Comment: 05-13-2023, Tierra del Sol, CA, good conditions.