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Here is my latest attempt in my Moon with a Webcam series, though this time I used a very cheap camcorder instead of a webcam. Still plenty of room for improvement.

I used a Meade ETX-90 telescope f=1250mm with 26mm eyepiece → 48X magnification. This time I was holding the camera by hand but I have a plan for improving that part.

Ten days after the release of Gpredict 1.0 beta 4 we are now ready with a new release that fixes some minor bugs in the radio controller.

The significant changes in this release:

• Fixed some bugs that caused the Doppler shift to be calculated incorrectly in some cases.
• Fixed a bug that could cause the transponder frequency to "drift" away from the set frequencies.
• Added new transponder files received from David VK5DG.
• Minor enhancements in the user manual.

You can download the source code from the project page on SourceForge. Try it, test it, discuss it, and report the bugs you encounter!

What a beautiful photo! Ariane 5 V188 with Herschel and Planck on board rises above ESA's 15m ESTRACK tracking station at Kourou, French Guiana, just after liftoff at 15:12 CEST, 14 May 2009.

Today I have upgraded my Joomla installation from version 1.5.6 to 1.5.10. Everything went all right but if you notice some problems just let me know.

At the same time I have replaced the commenting system with Disqus using a plug-in from JoomlaWorks. The old commenting system has been disabled and the old comments are therefore not visible anymore. If you are unhappy about it let me know. I might be able to enable it as read-only, but I really don't wish to spend too much time on it ifdoesn't bother anybody.