Astronomy and astro-photography

One of my biggest hobbies is astronomy and particularly astrophotography. I have been interested in astronomy and science since a was a little child and I bought my first telescope around 4 years ago. First time I had a look through it I was very disappointed as I could not see anything when I looked at the stars. They were just dots but I was expecting something like you can see in TV or astronomy magazines. I returned the scope back to the shop and after I did not have a telescope for another year as I had to return to Slovakia. When I came back to Plymouth I bought my first proper scope, which was 4" Newtonian Celestron. This scope gave me nice views of the Moon, Venus, Saturn and Jupiter. I tried attaching a web cam to the scope a taking my first ever pictures, which were very bad. However, I was fascinated by the fact that I actually took pictures of distant planets myself. Later on I realised I needed a bigger telescope so that I could try imaging distant deep sky objects such as galaxies or star clusters. In this way I tried several telescopes until I found the right one for me. This was my 8" Celestron mounted on a very good and sturdy HEQ-5 mount allowing me to image planets as well as deep sky objects. Here you can see a video showing some of my images I took with this setup. I hope you enjoy them.

Quantum-mechanics, consciousness and reality

How did universe begin? How did the life start? What is this reality and how it all works? What is consciousness? These are the questions that have always attracted my attention. It seems to me that the more we know about micro and macro-cosmos the more illusory our reality seems to be. We no longer see the matter as being solid but rather we see it as a vibrating energy. Latests findings show that one atom can be instantaneously affected by other atom regardless the distance or even that the same atom can appear at two places at the same time. In addition it has been found that our consciousness can affect the outcome of certain measurements. For example a binary random generator would produced more zeros if you focused on zeros and vice versa. Another example that is mentioned in the video below is the famous measurement problem, which causes atoms to appear only when we are trying to measure them. All this seems to be pointing scientists to one direction and I think when we get there it will collapse our current view and understanding of reality and its relation to the consciousness.

I have looked into various experiments resulting in anomalies that should not be happening according to mainstream science. I have summarised my findings in this one hour long video featuring famous scientists from various fields, click here to watch it. 

 

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