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Join me in the hunt for the Aurora Borealis in October 2011 on Spitsbergen!

Catching the Zodiacal Light
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2006-03-29
the Libyan Plateau between Mersa Matruh and Siwa, Egypt.

Welcome, I am Henk Bril (1962), stargazer since 1977 and member of the 'Koninklijke Nederlandse Vereniging voor Weer- en Sterrenkunde' (KNVWS) (Royal Dutch Association for Meteorology and Astronomy).

I have a passion for old star charts and maps from the 17th, 18th and 19th Century.
I collect them in order to preserve them for later generations, and to place them on the internet for those interested in old star maps.

My astrohistorica pages are pretty popular and several of my maps have been published in books and magazines.
I discovered in 2006 that the nebula M109 is actually NGC 3953, and not NGC 3992, which was a wrong identification by Owen Gingerich in 1953. As a consequence all recent star atlases are wrong on this.

I am fond of comets, occultations, polar lights, noctilucent clouds and eclipses.

I will be astronomical leader on a trip to Spitsbergen in October 2011 with a 40 meters long sailing ship.
Still some places open. Interested to join? Just drop me a mail!

In 2005 I was honored with the prestigious "Dr. J. van der Bilt"-award of the KNVWS.

 
Most spectacular experience: Total Solar Eclipse March 29, 2006.

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde)