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Aurora borealis, 49°N (11 Oct 2024)

Northern lights over New West

Notices quickly went out, even saw alerts from scientists whom I follow on social media. Big solar storm detected, big aurora display expected.

The colours: reds & blue-greens for oxygen & nitrogen, respectively.

Structure: pillars, curtains, wavy strands.

Location: New Westminster, BC 🇨🇦 ; 49.2° North, 122.9° West.

Time: from about 12am to 1am PDT (7 to 8h UTC), on 11 October 2024.

*Northwest horizon, 0003h PDT. Visible: Vega (Lyra), Draco, Ursa Minor.*

*East horizon, 0010h PDT. Visible: Jupiter, Aldebaran (Taurus), Pleiades, Cetus, Orion.*

*Northeast horizon, 0027h PDT. Visible:*

*East horizon (towards the Port Mann Bridge), 0030h PDT.*

I made all photos above with an iPhone15 on 11 Oct 2024. This post composed with Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.

24T89 Giessen, to say hi and goodbye

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On a quiet overcast Sunday morning, I’m on a regional train for an hour north from Frankfurt to the university town of Giessen (Gießen). At their old cemetery Alter Friedhof is the grave site of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, discoverer of X-rays. I visited his birth town of Lennep two days ago on travel day 87. Röntgen was also professor of physics at the University of Giessen from 1879 to 1888.

It’s where I’ve come to say hi and goodbye: both to Röntgen, and to 90 consecutive days “on the road”. Tomorrow, I must (but reluctantly) fly out from Europe to Canada.

*Modest entrance to Giessen’s Alter Friedhof (Old Cemetery).*

*There’s plenty of signage leading the way.*

*Memorial grave for Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen, Professor in Giessen from 1879 to 1888.*

*The first two names are Wilhelm’s parents, followed by his wife Berta, and lastly, Wilhelm himself.*

*In Giessen’s Theaterpark is a memorial statue to Röntgen (north side).*

*South side, with Röntgen’s calm cool gaze.*

I made the photos above with an iPhone15 on 4 Aug 2024. This post composed with Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.

24T88 Frankfurt: beginning and end

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Travel day 88: double eight, double happiness!

Europe day 87.

Three days remain, and I end where I began when I arrived in Europe on travel day 2: Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

The familiarity of the train station, the sight of the city’s towers, the taste of “Frankfurter Grüne Sosse”.

I have a few project goals in mind, but it’s become apparent these past few days that I’ve reached the end after my self-imposed breakneck pace of the last few months. But I still look, and I still want to document what I see. These below are some of the final observations from Frankfurt.

*Food first, at Dauth Schneider in Sachsenhausen.*

*Summer showers outside, dry tables inside. That is, I saw the local radar, and decided to get a table inside.*

Frankfurt Schnitzel: fried breaded pork cutlet, Frankfurt green sauce, and fried potatoes. Green sauce is made with 7 herbs grown only in the area: borage (Borretsch), burnet (Pinpinelle), chervil (Kerbel), chives (Schnittlauch), cress (Kresse), parsley (Petersilie), and sorrel (Sauerampfer).

*U-Bhf Konstablerwache: Lyon* 🇫🇷 *& Frankfurt* 🇩🇪 *(Creative Stadt – Cité Création).*

*U-Bhf Konstablerwache: Lyon* 🇫🇷 *& Frankfurt* 🇩🇪 *have been partner cities since 1960.*

*At Rossmarkt the Gutenberg memorial is dwarfed by neighbouring commercial towers.*

*Börneplatz Memorial to Holocaust Victims from Frankfurt. Bordering the old Jewish cemetery is a Wall of Names with the almost 12-thousand names of Frankfurt residents who perished.*

*Edith Frank (née Hollaender): 1900-1945, died in Auschwitz.*

*Margot Frank, eldest daughter of Edith & Otto: 1926-1945, died in Bergen-Belsen.*

Annelies Frank, youngest daughter of Edith & Otto: 1929-1945, died in Bergen-Belsen. As the immediate family’s only survivor, Otto moved to Basel after liberation; he had his daughter’s diary published to the rest of the world. With his passing in 1980, Otto is buried in Basel’s Birsfelden cemetery.

I made the photos above with an iPhone15 on 3 Aug 2024. This post composed with Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.

24T87 Röntgen’s birth town, Lennep

(E86: Lennep b. Remscheid)

Engineer and physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen is known as the person who discovered X-ray radiation in 1895. Also called X-rays, they’re better known in German-speaking countries as “Röntgenstrahlung” (Röntgen radiation). The discovery would net Röntgen the world’s first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.

I’d seen a big display about Röntgen’s experiments and apparatus in Würzburg, but I’d learned a day trip from Cologne would take me to Röntgen’s birth town of Lennep.

*The house in Lennep where W.C. Röntgen was born. He was only here for a few years before the family moved to the Netherlands.*

*1920 commemorative plaque by the city of Lennep for this house.*

One of the 1st ever X-ray images: left hand of his wife Anna Ludwig Röntgen, 22 December 1895. Despite initial skepticism, one implication would soon be obvious: X-rays to examine and diagnose “inside” the body without having to “operate.”

*Not far from the Röntgen birth house is the Deutsches Röntgen Museum (German Röntgen Museum) with ‘X’ in front.*

*1901 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Röntgen: declaration in Swedish, one.*

*1901 Nobel Prize declaration in Swedish, two.*

*Siemens Stabilipan machine, with aluminium, copper, or thorium X-ray sources.*

*Replica, dentistry practice. (Zahnarzt = Zahn (tooth) + Arzt (doctor) = tooth doctor, or dentist.)*

*“Ich dachte nicht, ich untersuchte.” (I wasn’t thinking, I was investigating.)*

Lennep (as part of the larger Remscheid) can be reached by S7 train from either Solingen or Wuppertal; both in turn are easily reached from Köln.

I made the photos above with an iPhone15 on 2 Aug 2024. This post composed with Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.

24T66 Med.Uni.Wien: Freud, Semmelweis, Kowanz

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Medicine is a part of the original founding of the University of Vienna in 1365. Over 6 centuries later in 2004, the university’s Faculty of Medicine created a separate Medical University of Vienna (MU Wien). Established in 1784, the Vienna General Hospital (Wien AKH) became home to the medical school, a centre for medical research, as well as supplying and supporting vital care for the city’s residents. Today, the campus of MU Wien lies adjacent to the campus of Wien AKH.

Certified in medicine, Dr. Sigmund Freud taught students and carried out medical research, before escaping the clutches of the Nazis to London in 1938. Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis recognized and instituted strict hygiene practices in obstetrics for the first time in the late 19th-century. From the late 20th into the early 21st-century, Viennese artist Brigitte Kowanz created “light sculptures” as part of her interest and practice of an ongoing conversation between art and science.