If you are interested in my scientific work, please click on:
a brief description of my scientific work,
my list of publications,
and my CV
Click here for photos of Guanajuato if you want to see how nice it is to life here in central Mexico.
Click here for a virtual visit of our public university observatory in the centre of Guanajuato (nice photos, too!)
Tel: 0052 473 732 9548 (FAX: --0253)
Click here for information on our summer project (a CONCyTEG Proyecto de Verano): Observe the Sun yourself and learn about solar activity! (at the DA in Guanajuato, LaValenciana)
Courses, given at the University of Sussex and, now, in Guanajuato:
Stellar Structure and Evolution (autumn semesters, for postgrado, held in english at the DA in Guanajuato)
Heat & Energy (Sussex Foundation Year, Summer Term)
Math for Physics I (Sussex 1st year, Autumn Term)
Systems of Particles (Sussex 1st year, Spring Term)
Practical Astronomy (new from autumn 2006: for 2nd yr licenciatura, under "Temas avancadas de la astrofisica", held at IFUG, Leon): Virtual and real astronomical observations and measurements (photometry, spectroscopy, radio astronomy), and digital imaging of the Sun, the Moon and some planets with a portable telescope on-campus.
Interstellar Medium (Sussex 2nd year, Summer Term)
Atomic Physics II and Statistical Physics (Sussex 2nd year, Summer Term)
Spectroscopic Astrophysics (Sussex 3rd year and postgrad's, Autumn Term)
Latest: the total lunar eclipse of Febr. 20/21, 2008!
Comet Holmes, 3rd Nov. 3.30am, 2007, from downtown Guanajuato:
Composite of 7 exposures of 8secs, at 1600ASA, taken with a Canon EOS DSLR, 7"f/6 MakNewt, from my roof-top terrace in Guanajuato (near Dos Rios). Mild (50%/30pix) unsharp masking.
Recently: Total solar eclipse Turkey, March 29, 2006:
Composite picture from 6 exposures 1/2 ... 1/90 sec, DSLR at 200 ASA, with 60/700mm refractor. Image processing: overlay of Sekanina-Larsen mask.
Spectacular pair: eclipsed Sun over the Apollo temple of Side - however, it has to be admitted: This is not a real shot but a composite picture.
Mercury (7.5. 2003) and Venus (8.6. 2004) transits: for my photos of the event, click here (for Mercury) and here (for Venus)!
Last update: 12.11. 2011
Author: Klaus-Peter Schroeder, e-mail to: kps@astro.ugto.mx