The Cosmic Mirror

Daniel Fischer looks into the Universe

New: every page both in Europe and the U.S.!

Links to the News and Press Releases / Contact me!

So then, welcome to The Cosmic Mirror of July 30, 2010!
There are many long articles and a Blog (in German) to browse.
Space History - Space News in German - Strange News

Awards: and and

Daniel Fischer is also the 1997 winner of the
Bruno-H.-Buergel-Preis of the Astronomische Gesellschaft

Then there are the astronomical expeditions which I like to organize - so far I've been to 11 total and 6 annular solar eclipses, two meteor storms and two major showers, three comets, a transit of Venus and more. Here are my reports on the Aurigid outburst and the TLE of 2007 in California, a stellar occultation by asteroid Polyxo in Nov. 2004 [mirror], the comet duo, a bright grazing occultation during a TLE & the ToV of 2004 [mirror], the Leonid storm of 2001 in Korea, the Leonid Storm of 1999 in Jordan and the Leonid fireball rain of 1998 in Mongolia. And reports on the solar eclipses of 2010 total and annular 2009 total 2008 total (also a story in German) 2006 total and annular 2005 hybrid as total [German mirror site] and annular 2003 (annular) 2002 (total and annular), 2001 (total [German mirror site] and annular [mirror]) 1999 (total and annular), 1998, 1997, 1995, 1994 [German mirror site] and 1992 expeditions. Also one more report on the 1997 trip, three more on the 1995 event, and picture stories from our expeditions of 1994 and 1995 (all total eclipses).

Now and then I also take pictures of bright comets like Hyakutake or Hale-Bopp (March 28, April 4 and 8). Or watch one crashing into Jupiter (see also my reports quoted by ESO and archived at PDS-SBN [ 2nd report])... Finally I'd like to draw your attention to my publicistic adventures which include the production of the (almost) weekly newsletter Skyweek and the publication of German-language books on the Jupiter Crash, the Galileo mission and the Hubble Space Telescope, the latter also being available in an English edition (reviewed here). And there is a 2nd volume in print! There is also a CD-ROM on the same topic. I also wrote the Kosmos Report Weltraum Aktuell 1997/98. Furthermore I also like to give talks on astronomy, some of which are contained in conference videos of The Astronomer.

New: A tested collection of links about Hale-Bopp and comets! ( SuW version)

And for something completely different, try the funny pages...

Search Tools: ForschungsPortal, Google News Tracker, Raging, Excite, PaperBall.

Spaced-out Links worth of frequent checks:

Leading sources for breaking news in space and astronomy:

PTTU News & Blogs ÖWF / eScienceNews / Astro AllTop / MQ Universum Space Today / Space Daily / (List) Res.Blogging Astro / AstroSpaceNow (twitter) SpaceRef News NASA vs. NASA Watch WAA News / Current NwS DLR ForschAk / FAZ / ZEIT

S&T (news, obs, sky blogs) Space.com (Blog) BBC Sci/Tech Astro-Liste / MeteorObs / IYA India ESA News, Science A.de vis1 & vis2 + phot. + IYA + AT pl. + SoFi + DS + G + IYA Comets ML, Images, Obs / MPML Yahoo & TP

Flame Trench Blog SpaceWeather - AstroBlogger Welt & SZ & FAZ Spaceflight Now Plan. Soc. (Blog) EurekAlert, Universe Today APOD, LPOD, EPOD, OPOD IdW PMn

Twitter streams to check when offline a while - space organizations: IYA (U.S.), ESOC, NASA, JPL, NRAO, DLR, UNAWE, ÖWF | space press: SpaceWire, AstronomyNews, StarDate, space.com | space missions: LCROSS, LRO, Chandrayaan (alt.), MRO (HiRISE), Phoenix, MESSENGER, New Horizons, Planck | other science press: SciAm, NYT Science, New Sci., BBC Sci.&Tech., TIME Hea.&Sci., Spiegel Wissen, Telepolis, ScienceBlogs | personal: Petersen, Greiner, O'Brien, Pradeep, Simonsen, Amoroso, Slack, Freistetter, Mosher, Whitehouse, Ellison, Foust, Pearlman, McGregor, Gay, Krause (Kometen, SoFi), Cowing, Musser, Atkinson, Phillips (following all of them) || more news: Wired, scienceRSS, News on Twitter, NYT, Die TopNews, PolitikFeed, Spiegel (Top, alles), ZEIT alles, FAZ alles (Blog), Zeitungen, Schlagzeilen, Radio Bonn (not following normally).

DeepWebSearch | Continuous news streams: ProPhysik | WAA Berichte | Planetary PhotoJournal - latest pix | Astro.ag | WDR Raumfahrt-Log | AstroTreff | WebNews Weltraum | FT News

Blogs: Big Picture | Cosmic Variance | New Sci. | Cosmic Log | Bad Astro | Nature | ROG | Eye on Science | ABC S&S | CENAP Newsticker | SpacePolitics | Bad Science | JREF | ScienceBlogs Physical - Naturwiss. - Last 24 hours - G. Laden || Improbable | KosmoLogs & WissensLogs & ChronoLogs | HPD | Brights | RealClimate | Schieb | Global Voices | Perlentaucher Magazine & Feuilletons | YK Chia | IO 9 | SciFiScoop | Rude Pundit | FGH | The CASCDES Top 100 and 50 "most powerful" blogs

More stuff: future launches, many blogs linked (dito, dito) | Explorator (archaeology) | Anti-Green Myths - Global Warming FAQ / 50 reasons / How to Talk to a "Skeptic" / BBC Top 10 / Rahmstorf / FOCUS Top 10 | Sci.space.news | Sci.astro | De.sci.astronomie | Sci.astro.amateur | Dome of the Sky || Ananova Space | Science Now | Nature Science Update | MondNews | ACC News | Curious | PhysicsWeb | MorgenWelt | Universe Today | NewsReality Astronomy | MSNBC Space News | IDW Forschung | ExploreZone | NYT Science | TeachersNet | Astronomy News | CBS Space ( SciTech) | Wired Tech News | SPIEGEL Wissenschaft | NetZeitung | SZ and Welt Wissenschaft | Yahoo Science | Yahoo Aerospace | NEO News and Big Rock News | AP Science Update | Astronomie.de | IAUCs and GCN Circulars (GRBs) | NewsAktuell | Ticker | MSNBC Science and Tech fronts | RP Wissenschaft | Yahoo News, German news and Tech headlines | WP Top News ( Science, Horizon) | CBS Breaking News in Space | Aurora live! | Comet magnitude estimates, collected by Morris and ICQ | VIDEOTEXT

Updated daily or almost: Nachtschwärmer | Münster | NewsWorks SciTech | Science Daily Space & Time | B. Globe h&s | Hale-Bopp What's New (JPL) (mirror site!); discussion | AW&ST News | inScight | USA Today | Lehrermagazin | Nando Times Science | ABQ Journal | Astronomer's Telegram | Astronet list | DLF Forschung Aktuell | TIME Daily | Today @ NASA | Galileo Updates | CCNet | Space Weather Today | Earth & Sky | StarDate | Sternzeit | PR Newswire | Site and Picture of the Day

Daniel Fischer, Im Kottsiefen 10, 53639 Koenigswinter, Germany

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