Tomasz Kwiatkowski
I work at the Poznan Astronomical
Observatory as a research associate. Most often I'm logged in at
vesta.astro.amu.edu.pl, and receive e-mails at the same host. My
login is tkastr, so to send me an e-mail you have to address it to
tkastr at vesta dot astro dot amu dot edu dot pl.
For my students:
Photos from some of my trips...
Pic du Midi Observatory, french Pirenees
Here are some nice
photos showing a sunrise over
the telescope dome. A beautiful show to be watched after a night of hard
work...
If you are lucky, you can see it for yourself with the
WebCam, which looks
through the window.
If you were just unlucky with the WebCam, here are
photos I have saved for you showing sunsets over the mountains.
The best of the WebCam
More nice photos
As Pic du Midi is 2870 m above see level, one can observe from it even
during the day. Here are 2 shots of Jupiter, that my colleague Francois has
obtained at about 16 UT on 22 Feb 2001. In this photo, exposed
for 0.17 seconds through the I filter on
the T1M
telescope (1 meter in diameter), you hardly recognize
the Red Spot. But
after some digital ''black magic'' you start to see also
several smaller spots below it.
Haute Provence in France
Sometimes nights are cloudy and days -- sunny. That is awfull for
observations, but leaves some time for site-seeing. Below you can find 5
photos from my stay in Observatoire
de Haute Provence, some 100 km north of Marseille. All of them were taken
by my colleague, Francois Colas, who owns the copyright.
- A rocky coast at the outskirts of
Marseille looks just great in such lightning conditions.
- These rocks are made of calcium. They are dry, there are no
streems so the area is unpopulated except several
buildings (bottom right). There is a nice restaurant there called
La Grotte, where they serve really nice pizzas.
- After lunch one can board a boat in
Marseille (the city is visible in the background)...
- ...and sail to the island, where an old castle
is situated. In medieval ages it defended Marseille from attacks from the
sea, later was turned into a heavy prison.
- Alexander Dumas was impressed by it and described it in his famous book
Duke Monte Christo. Its hero as a young man was imprisoned there as
a result of an unfair accusation. He later bacome famous as a duke Monte
Christo. The guy on the photo is not him -- its
just me.
- The castle is populated by seagulls, which like
to be photographed in pairs.
Some usefull links
Last updated on 2006-02-27
