Using Heywhatsthat.com to generate a multiple summit-perspective views in Google Earth – part 2

Heywhatsthat multi-summit panorama2

In this part of the article, I would like to say more about multiple summit-perspective views in Google Earth. First of all, previously I have described largely how to manage the heywhatsthat.com panoramas in Google Earth. Now you will see how to put a few summits into your Google software and manage them correctly. Let’s … Read more

Using Heywhatsthat.com to generate a multiple summit-perspective views in Google Earth – part 1

Heywhatsthat multi-summit panorama

Google Earth has been widely used in geography and GIS. Previously I showed you how to simulate a flood and total solar eclipse path in this tool. There are not only things, that I am going to show you over the forthcoming months. First of all, Google Earth is one of the programs, that I … Read more

Bonfire Night in Cambridge

Bonfire night Cambridge

Bonfire Night, the annual British event is coming. The Bonfire Night also known as a Fireworks Night is observed on 5th November in Britain. It is associated with Guy Fawkes, who wanted to overthrow the king. Read more here. Last year I had the occasion to participate in Bonfire Night in Cambridge with my fiancee. … Read more

Tenerife and the night sky

Tenerife astronomical observatory

Visiting Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands was one of the best adventures. After several days, when I could scout this picturesque place I spent one night above the unique low-level clouds. It was a fantastic experience because I have not seen that pristine sky before. The day, when I set my observation place … Read more

Watching the sky with Krosno branch of Polish Society of Amateur Astronomers (PTMA)

PTMA stare logo

In this article, I would like to describe my a few years of adventures in the Krosno branch of the Polish Society of Amateur Astronomers, where I could develop my noble hobby. Except for my activities, I want to show the best and the most unique observations made by members of this society in the … Read more

What is the colour of Martian sky?

Martian sky NASA jpl

The Mars Exploration Program has been launching for around 20 years since the first probe Mars Pathfinder done by NASA landed on the Red’s Planet surface. For this time another four rovers touched down on the Martian ground: Spirit & Opportunity (2004), Phoenix  (2008), and Curiosity (2012). All of those missions beamed many photos of … Read more

The longest pier in the World!

The longest pier in the World is located in Southend town (Southend-at-sea) in the south-eastern part of Britain. This Landmark is extending 2,16 km into the Thames Estuary. The pier has been built in the XIX century. First, it was a wooden pier, next to an iron pier, opened in 1888. The reason is that … Read more

Total solar eclipse vizualisation on Google Earth, part 2

Solar eclipse visualization Google Earth

<<< Read the 1st part of The solar eclipse visualization on Google Earth In the 1st part of this article, I showed you how to create the “umbra” in Scribble Maps and use it in Google Earth as a .kml file. Here I would like to demonstrate step by step how to create a pretty … Read more

Transit of Venus – have you seen this celestial event?

Venus transit 2012

13 and 5 years ago we could witness an unusual occurrence when an inferior planet crossed the solar disk. The transit of Venus is a very rare celestial phenomenon, which occurs usually twice in the span of a little bit more than 1 century.  I said twice because between first and second transit is approximately … Read more

The summary of Nikon D5300

Here, in this short article, I would like to summarize my whole test, which I have been doing step by step for the last year. I bought my new DSLR camera D5300 over 12 months ago. As you may have noticed from time to time I used to share with you the facilities of this … Read more

Make a Virtual Travel Guide like Street View

Travel guide Google Earth

A couple months ago I described my opinions about getting appropriate information about your own trip. I wrote this to the tour guides mainly however, this issue applies to everyone who is planning the trip and want to see and get to know about something interesting. I mentioned the kind of applications like (Google) Travel … Read more

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 55-300mm F4.5-5.6G ED VR is it worth?

Nikkor 55-300mm Ken Rockwell

The Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR is a telephoto zoom lens designed to complete the 18-55mm kit zoom, that comes bundled with many Nikon DSLR cameras. In this article, I used some 18-55mm photo compilations to compare how it works all together in the 18-300mm range. The Nikkor 55-300mm VR lens features … Read more