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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Fact of the day: Starship's dry mass of 100t matches that of Columbus' Santa Maria which had a displacement of 150t in total, with 40t of it ballast. Photo by Miguel Ángel of the Replica in Wharf of the Caravels, Palos de la Frontera, Spain. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_M...

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

... resemble with their ornament-free precise style the Cycladic culture on the Greek islands between Santorini and Andros with Delos in the center, and also similar to the famous stones at Puma Punku south of Lake Titicaca. His website: marcovigato.com

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Marco M. Vigato's presentation at the 2026 Conference on Precession & Ancient Knowledge cpakonline.com about "Olmec Origins and the Beginnings of Mesoamerican Civilization" was another of my favorites. The artifacts left by the Mezcala culture (aka Balsas) in today's Mexico state of Guerrero...

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

... Also the classic star constellations he sees as being correlated to the landscape of the Gwynedd county in Wales. A recent interview with him on the DemystifySci channel: youtu.be/qV2wEfjESRw?...

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Another of my favorite presentations at the 2026 Conference on Precession & Ancient Knowledge cpakonline.com last month was Hugh Evans' talk about the origin of many composed words in various languages he found in atomic originals in Welsh...

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Small correction: The local solar time calculation on my website appears to produce wrong results currently. The photo was taken not at local noon but 3 hours before local noon in the mid morning.

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I could see a faint white dot at the Venus location which doesn't appear as pixel defect on other frames from the same camera! Complete sequence, also in HDR with the areoHDR app or on the web: areo.info/mars20/ecams...

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

On 5 October 2026, Perseverance Rover reached 2000 Mars days (sols) on the surface! On that day an unusual sequence of 5 Navcam photos were taken at 30s intervals at local noon. Checking with Stellarium, the reason was revealed: Venus should be visible at -3mag and maybe even Earth at -2mag!

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Six months have passed since the #ArtemisII mission and NASA has just released the reentry video from the Orion capsule! Here is a timelapse of the reentry, but be sure to check out the realtime version linked below! 🔭🧪

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Finally the mystery about the chosen entry trajectory is solved! It was already known it's not the Apollo 4 / Artemis 1 skipped entry, but which exactly was not published. So they used some lateral movement with the 90° rolls to either reduce the heatshield stress or adjust the splashdown location.

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

... The proposed physical mechanism of action considered in this theory are the changes in the solar magnetic activity due to the distance variations towards the large planets, which also directly affects the intensity of sun spots and also affects the Earth magnetic field.

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Another interesting presentation at the Conference about Precession and Ancient Knowledge (CPAK 2026) last weekend: The movement of the Sun around the solar system barycenter correlates with long cycle climate changes as Dr. Valentina Zharkova found out. Website: solargsm.com/solar-activity ...

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That's an alternative explanation for the observed change of Earth's axis pointing location causing the precession of the equinoxes. His 2009 scientific paper "Does solar system motion matter?" provides all the math and observed evidence: www.academia.edu/106923155/Ea...

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Walter Cruttenden opens the convention and explains his theory of the motion of the whole solar system ecliptic plane through the 26000 years of the Great Year due to the Sun being a binary star like 50% of all stars are...

Walter Cruttenden in front of the Great Year cycle background drawing pointing to the current solar system position in the Zodiac.

Walter Cruttenden presenting at the CPAK 2026

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This graph shows astronomical increase of mass which will be possible to sent to low Earth orbit for $100000 when the Starship design goal is reached. The orange datapoint at 2026 is the extrapolation when the Starship stack can be reused 5 times.

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Great bike infrastructure here from Newport Beach to Huntington Beach!

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Today it's in the exhibition of the Archenhold Observatory in Berlin. As time reference, the Riefler tank clock was used, with a rate consistency of 1/100 seconds per month, achieved by keeping the whole mechanism inside a vacuum tank. www.planetarium.berlin/en/exhibitio...

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Museum in the Archenhold-Observatory

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

... combined with a precise clock, the exact time of meridian transitions of stars. By reading the division markers on the circular dial through the four microscopes on the left, a precision of 0.1 arc seconds was reached, 1/18000 lunar diameter. This instrument was built by Repsold & Söhne in 1891.

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Obscure astronomical instrument of the day: The Meridian Circle (German: Passageninstrument) These special telescopes fixed on the ground pointing exactly south, could only be rotated vertically along the meridian. That allowed ultra precise measurement of star elevations above the horizon, and ...

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

... usually found in granite, more like the microcrystalline type of quartzite like in white river pebbles on Earth. More images from the drilling attempt on sol 1977 (12 Sep 2026) areo.info/mars20/ecams...

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

That cell-like fractured rock on Mars, I posted about earlier today and a few days ago, was too hard to work on by the Perseverance Rover core sample drill! That's a strong indication for the white material being quartz (SiO2). However, it doesn't look like the large crystalline quartz ...

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This rock on Mars with the cell-like fractures of what looks like river pebble material, has kept the Perseverance Rover team at focus on it for 13 days since sol 1965! Now on mission day 1979 it finally continued driving: areo.info/mars20/ecams...

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Appears to be the same high silica base material seen a few days ago on this one: bsky.app/profile/areo...

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rock on Mars with cell-like fracture structure refilled with black crystals, seen with the Perseverance Rover cameras 2 days ago, mission day 1967. More: www.areo.info/mars20/ecams...

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's the heliacal rising location of Sirius. That means where Sirius is visible the first time each year. On that day only a few seconds shortly before sunrise and longer and earlier on subsequent days. More details in my article: x.com/areoinfo/sta...

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

As some readers may have noticed, the Heliacal Rise app was switched to manual mode in the screenshot. The iron cage up there was distorting the Earth's magnetic field and preventing accurate use of the iPad's magnetic compass. But down on the ground of the Große Sternallee, the direction is shown.

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Met two wandering journeymen carpenters on the Große Sternallee (Great Star tree-lined avenue) in Berlin. They are soon leaving for Japan to learn more about the locals' woodworking trade.

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The two modern office towers in the distance nicely kept a gap in between. Four obelisks at the nearby Luther Bridge clearly indicate with their golden stars on top the symbol for a celestial star and not just a star-like street pattern.

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

After climbing up the Victory Column in Berlin on the large traffic circle named Großer Stern (Great Star), I could verify with my Helical Rise app the alignment of the Große Sternallee (Great Star tree-lined avenue) towards the heliacal rising location of Sirius. App: apps.apple.com/app/heliacal...

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A microcrack was recently noticed, and currently can’t be rotated. The building was added in 1909 and is famous for being the location of Einstein’s first public lecture on the theory of general relativity on June 2, 1915.

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Its still-original electromechanics let it rotate around the observer—much different from common constructions, where you have to move around with a ladder. planetarium.berlin/en/archenhol...

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History ASTW

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Yesterday I visited the Archenhold Observatory in Berlin, built in 1896 with the equivalent of today's 2.5 M$ in private donations to Friedrich Simon Archenhold’s crowdfunding project as a public telescope for the Berlin Trade Fair. At 21m it is still the longest refractor, with a 68 cm lens...

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

... after they have read Robert Goddard's book. Until 2018 bronze plaque portraits of Wernher, Rudolf, and Hermann were attached to a column inside the Tegel Airport terminal building, which was build on part of the old rocket field ground. raketenflugplatz-berlin.de

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Great website with historic photos not found elsewhere: raketenflugplatz-berlin.de About the Raketenflugplatz (rocket airport) Berlin where pioneers like Rudolf Nebel, Klaus Riedel, Wernher von Braun, Hermann Oberth and many others in 1930 launched spaceflight as we know it today...

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

... German interview with Dr. Peter Plichta about his atom model and discovery of the prime number cross. As chemist, Plichta predicted the existence of stable long-chain silanes and was the first to synthesize them in the 1970s. youtube.com/watch?v=x6ne... and youtube.com/watch?v=dtQR...

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A few years ago I read about Dr. Peter Plichta who developed a similar spherical atom model. He sees the mathematical fundamentals -1, 1, i, -i as its fine structure components to create proton and neutron by exchange of one parameter value of the 4: www.plichta.de/plichta/vort... Video...

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Peter Plichta - gehalten an der Uni Illmenau am 7.6.05

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This new atom model changing its rotation based on its charge is most likely a revolutionary discovery sending an momentum through the scientific lattice! It even includes in this shape the electron, thereby avoiding the complexity of an additional elementary fine structure component.

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How Electron Guns Work Without Firing Electrons - LIVE! Drs. Bendebury & DeLay (DemystifySci +443)

YouTube video by The DemystifySci Podcast

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Time to forget the now outdated dirty ice ball comet model. No water or ice visible anywhere on the surface or near it at any closeup comet nucleus investigation over the years. All are the blackest and driest objects in the solar system. www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-...

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Dr. Fred Whipple uses a 500 pound snowball covered with dirt in his...

Dr. Fred Whipple uses a 500 pound snowball covered with dirt in his Harvard classroom to demonstrate the anatomy of a comet's nucleus. | Location: Harvard Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge,...

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The purpose is to predict if the 2027 eclipse can be observed by the ISS crew from within the umbra. During the 2024 eclipse this opportunity was missed by about 8 minutes. github.com/isenberg/iss...

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GitHub - isenberg/iss_eclipse: Astrodynamics orbit simulation of the ISS during total solar eclipses

Astrodynamics orbit simulation of the ISS during total solar eclipses - isenberg/iss_eclipse

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Now after the 2026 total solar eclipse I have made my ISS trajectory simulation script public so everyone can run it in the free GMAT astrodynamics software to simulate it under gravity, solar radiation pressure and atmospheric drag, including periodic apogee orbit boosts. github.com/isenberg/iss...

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Black and white rocks on Mars in front of Perseverance Rover yesterday, mission day 1955: areo.info/mars20/ecams...

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Video on svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15075 covers the full eclipse duration! First the limb of the Sun is on the right, then lost, and returning on the left side to the end. Maybe intentionally dark to see the finer details directly above the Chromosphere which is otherwise unreachable.‬

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Finally a few real images from the NASA WB-57 high altitude aircraft which followed the solar eclipse totality shadow last week. It's surprisingly black. A black Sun in front of a black sky which made even the automatic camera tracker lost its target; red X visible: youtube.com/shorts/myZ9k...

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2026 Solar Eclipse @ 50,000 Feet

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Holger Isenberg @areoinfo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This small pebble on Mars with thin black filled fractures appears to be highly siliceous rock, similar to white river pebbles in the Alps Mountains. Photos taken today mission day 1949 by Perseverance Rover cameras Watson, Hazcam, and Navcam. More images from that day: areo.info/mars20/ecams...

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