Found it! (My mailbox is actually quite organised). Patrick Duis, who was in the audience during my lecture in Tilburg, sent me this picture he took of my Voorwerp and its neighbour, galaxy IC2497. He said he used a 200mm F5 Newton telescope and an EOS 400D DSLR camera, for those of you wondering. Thank you, [...]
Category Archives: Discoveries
Aug
21
2012
Hanny’s Voorwerp’s first lustrum!
Yes, it’s indeed already five years since I first asked what that blue smudge in my picture (on GalaxyZoo) was. Five! Years! Time not only just flies, it flies fast. Although it’s ‘only’ been in the media for four years, in most ways it feels even a lot shorter than that. In some it does [...]
Aug
06
2012
Hanny’s Voorwerp is a cloud
I got up early this morning to be online and I watched Curiosity land on Mars – live. Take a moment to let it sink in how awesome that is, before you read on. Then, if you haven’t seen them yet, take a look at the pictures on the official NASA website. Now I’m not [...]
Jul
25
2011
Life imitating art
The other day, Bill (who’s doing the lead on our Hubble Voorwerp paper) e-mailed me a couple of pictures, which I thought you, my readers, would like to see too. With the first he wrote: “I went to the Texas Star Party to give a presentation on the Zooniverse, and was hoping to get [...]
Jan
14
2011
Seattle – The extra day
Tuesday morning, I decided I’d have breakfast at the hotel again. I didn’t actually read the complimentary newspaper before, but since I was taking my time, I thought I’d check up on the local football team. And then I saw my own name in The Seattle Times. It was a funny start of yet another [...]