An original point of view
When I gave the Nikkor 18-105mm lens back to the CEX shop I decided to buy something different. Coming across many lenses and different producers I found one, tailor-made for me at first glance. I have ordered through the webuy.com website the used Sigma 17-70mm F2.8 – 4.5 Macro lenses. Unfortunately, the lens, that I … Read more
I wish you all the best in the forthcoming New Year 2018! This time from London. As usual, this is the best place in the whole UK, where you can enjoy New Year’s Day. All tickets for New Year’s eve have been sold out, nonetheless, it doesn’t mean, that you won’t see beautiful fireworks at … Read more
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
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
My adventure with Nikkor 18-105mm began when I was rushing to buy a new kit lens for my Nikon D5300 camera. It was around 2 weeks ago. A day earlier my wife hit the Nikkor 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 VR II accidentally making it diagonal on the front part of the lens. In effect, I was not … Read more
Being at the top of The Shard building was a part of my 29th birthday surprise prepared by my fiancee. We went that day to London for a one-day trip to visit a few less-visited spots and round off our day on The Shard building in the evening. My fiancee’s plan stated, that we would … Read more
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
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
The International Space Station (ISS) is a habitable artificial satellite in low Earth orbit. This is the largest human-made body in low Earth orbit. The width of ISS is 108.5 m and its length is 72.8 m. It orbits about 400 kilometers above the planet so it can often be seen with the naked eye … Read more
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
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 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
<<< 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
This article presents how to vizualise the total solar eclipse on the most renowned geographical tool, the Google Earth.
<<< Back to part 1 I am in a rush with fantastic pictures and memories from the time, that I spent in Cornwall. Previously I sketched out both my trips. Now I would like to continue by describing a small and big “cornish loop”. It was 3rd day of our 2nd journey to Cornwall, … Read more
A few words of introduction In this couple of articles, I would like to describe our two fantastic journeys to Cornwall, which we made in 2015 and 2016. There were 2 separate journeys managed from Cambridge to the Southwest part of the United Kingdom. Both of them led through Devon – one region adjacent to … Read more
Introduction Google Earth is a handy tool to browse terrain in any part of the globe. Due to detailed satellite imagery, you are able to characterize the interesting area in any line of geographic research. Nowadays 3D quality imagery manages to develop across the World, especially in the most populated areas. The 3rd dimension of … Read more
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
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
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