• HEMELLIGGAAM or THE ATTEMPT TO BE HERE NOW
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  • CHAPTER ONE
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  • CHAPTER THREE
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CENTRE FOR EARTH AND SPACE, BLOEMFONTEIN, FREE STATE

tommaso fiscaletti December 9, 2021
In telescope Tags c, naval
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CHARLES WILLIAMS, SSC OPERATOR, ITHEMBA LABS, CAPE TOWN

tommaso fiscaletti January 17, 2020

'You have got a number of control systems together here... the interlock system it shows that the personnel, as well as the equipment, are safe. If anything does happen the interlock system PC will be aware of default. Anything highlighted in red shows that there is a problem here. Using the Interlock system we can track down the source of the area.'

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CHARLOTTE VANDERVOORDE, RESEARCHER, ITHEMBA LABS, CAPE TOWN

tommaso fiscaletti January 16, 2020

Dr Charlot Vandevoorde is positioning the wooden table where the biological sample will be place for a neutron beam irradiation. The study on the response of cells to neutron irradiation is a crucial aspect for the feasibility of future human mission in space.

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CEDERFLOWER, CEDERBERG, WESTERN CAPE

nic@nic.co.za December 26, 2017
In plants Tags c, video, izikovideo
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CEDERBERG ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY # 4, CEDERBERG

tommaso fiscaletti December 19, 2017
In telescope, ceder_astro Tags c, installation, cederberg

CHRIS FORDER'S TELESCOPE, CEDERBERG ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY, WESTERN CAPE

nic@nic.co.za December 19, 2017

'We got music going - we try to keep it to calm music, so that we are not too excited. If you get too excited then things start going wrong and you start doing stupid things. You must just keep calm the whole time while you are imaging. After all, the stars will wait - if you don’t get them tonight, you can get them tomorrow night. Time is nothing to them, time is everything to us. '

Chris Forder. Amateur Telescope builder. 

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CHRIS FORDER, TELESCOPE BUILDER, CEDERBERG ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY, WESTERN CAPE

nic@nic.co.za December 19, 2017

'If you consider there are between 10 and 20 times as many galaxies outside ours as there are stars in our galaxy - and we have maybe 200 billion stars, so multiply that between 10 and 20 and that is the number of galaxies, and each of those may have 200 billion starts. So we are pretty insignificant. If you go and look at a piece of sand outside. That is how insignificant we are. We think we are important but we are not.' - Chris Forder. Amateur Telescope builder. 

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CHRIS FORDER, TELESCOPE BUILDER, CEDERBERG ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY

tommaso fiscaletti December 18, 2017

'Are we alone, I don’t know - the thing is we will probably never know. If we find a civilization that can signal to us, we’ve got to be able to signal to them. If they are a 100 light years away we are talking about a 100 years between every communication, and by then the other one may have died out or they may have not reached the communications technology or we may have blown ourselves up enough to have to start all over again. So we will probably not communicate with anyone out there - not in our lifetime. But there is probably someone. We are so proud that we call them aliens - we may be the aliens. Who knows.' 

Chris Forder. Amateur Telescope builder.

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PROJECTION SCREEN, CEDERBERG ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY, CEDERBERG

tommaso fiscaletti December 18, 2017

'We all sat down in this amphitheatre - everyone so excited. Waiting for it to start, and then every now and then a car would arrive in the parking lot and its lights would shine onto the screen and then everyone would freak out a bit. This guy gave a presentation, using like Hubble telescope photographs, each and every photo - incredibly impressive full multicoloured images. This all whilst telling us about the telescopes they themselves have built and that we will be able to see Jupiter with them after the presentation. When we eventually went to look through the telescopes - it was all monochrome tiny little things, no multicolored Hubble stuff. Anyway, it was so great though seeing these old guys, listening to Led Zeppelin, who go up there every two weeks, observing through the night. It’s their thing, it is like playing golf to them' 

Dennis Williams, visitor to Cederberg Astronomical Observatory.

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CEDERBERG ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY # 3, CEDERBERG

tommaso fiscaletti December 18, 2017
In ceder_astro, telescope Tags c, out
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CEDERBERG ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY # 2, CEDERBERG

tommaso fiscaletti December 18, 2017

‘If you consider there are between 10 and 20 times as many galaxies outside ours as there are stars in our galaxy - and we have maybe 200 billion stars, so multiply that between 10 and 20 and that is the number of galaxies, and each of those may have 200 billion stars. So we are pretty insignificant. If you go and look at a piece of sand outside. That is how insignificant we are. We think we are important but we are not.’

Chris Forder, amateur telescope builder, Cederberg Astronomical Observatory partner.

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CEDERBERG ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY # 1, CEDERBERG

tommaso fiscaletti December 18, 2017

‘Are we alone, I don’t know - the thing is, we will probably never know. If we find a civilization that can signal to us we’ve got to be able to signal to them. If they are a 100 light years away we are talking about a 100 years between every communication, and by then the other one may have died out or they may have not reached the communications technology or we may have blown ourselves up enough to have to start all over again. So we will probably not communicate with anyone out there - not in our lifetime. But there is probably someone. We are so proud that we call them aliens - we may be the aliens. Who knows.’

Chris Forder, amateur telescope builder, Cederberg Astronomical Observatory partner.

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