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Heinz Scsibrany
Celestron 9 1/4

personal data: 

Physicist, Chemist, 
born: February, 1, 1965 
marital status: single 

Hobbies: 

Astronomy (planet images, deep sky images), Chemistry, Physics, Computer, calculation and observation of solar eclipses (total solar eclipse 21.06.2001). 
Sports: 
Bicycling, 
hiking in the mountains, 
swimming and snorkling. 


Pictures of the total solar eclipse on 29.03.2006
Pictures of the Lunar eclipse on May 4. 2004.
Some pictures of the annular Solar eclipse 31.05.2003.
Preview on Solar eclipses 2006 through 2009.

Download of free software (unfortunately only for PCs under Windows(R)):

New: A program which draws the (animated) phases of the planets (155 kByte, Windows (R) 95, ... XP). If you want to know, how the phases of Venus come about try this program.
This new version can calculate and show transits of Mercury and Venus in front of the Sun.

Program to draw Atomic Orbitals (currently only in German; Windows (R) 3.1, 95, ... XP; ca. 29 kByte).
Panorama Screen saver, which scrolls a panorama picture over the screen. Contains a 360° panorama of austrian mountains (Windows 95, 98, NT). Additional Panorama pictures can be found at the pages of Wolfgang Stich.

Version 3.6 of WinEclipse: A free program to forecast any solar or lunar eclipse: ECLIPSE.ZIP (700kByte).
This 16 bit program needs only Windows(R) 3.1 or newer (95,98, ..., XP). The program does not work under Windows XP64 (64 bit).
A lot of bugs has been solved in this version (see readme.txt for details).


Some links:
Nightskyinfo (Weekly information about the night sky and articles on selected astronomical topics).
Digital Chart of the World.
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration).
Prof. Dr. Kurt Varmuza (Supervisior of my PhD thesis at Vienna University of technology).

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Thank you for Your attention. If you have any questions, or if you just want to know when there is the next solar eclipse visible at any location on earth please e-mail me .

Last change: 2007.05.18.