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Capturing a Partial Solar Eclipse

At Saturday 29th of Mars starting about 12:24 local time here in Oslo I got the time and opportunist to film and photograph this event. My Choice of was the handy smartscope Seestar s50. I never used it before on the sun, so I carefully had to read the manual and make sure it was…

When Mars touched the Moon

It’s a winter day in February and for once it’s a clear sky. I looked up and came aware that Mars was going into a rare conjuction with the moon. I really didn’t have time nor have I planned to witness this. But I couldn’t lpass on this astronomical event. I could capture this in…

A Moutaineering adventure deep in Africa

Posted first on jorneriksson.no in 2013, edited in 2020. Author: Jørn Eriksson Jørn Eriksson has written about his adventure, alongside his friend Andreas, climbing Mt. Stanley and Mt. Speke in the remote Bujuku valley on the border between Uganda and Congo. In year 200 a. c., long before any known European had set foot in…

Notes on climbing Kilimanjaro

The year was 2012, and for some reason I decided to go all alone to Tanzania and climb Kilimanjaro. I was not part of a group and organised my own trip. There is no reason why you should pay extra to a travel company in your company for this hike, since the local law says…


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