Welcome to Arjen's Homepage

This is _the_ homepage of Arjen Siegers. I am an astronomy student at the Kapteyn Institute of the University of Groningen, where I am currently finishing my master's thesis on UV colours and optical spectroscopic properties of early-type galaxies. For more information on this and some previous project and assigments, please click here. Most links I visit very often can be found on the old page, so I won't mention them here. The immense amount of links on the old page was the most important reason for beginning on a new footing. As a student I spend most of my time at the Kapteyn Institute, which is the astronomy department of the university of Groningen. When not at the institute or at home, one of the most likely places where I can be found is Cleopatra A.S.G., the student society of which I am a member. They also have a web page.

Schroedingers cat is not dead. (The only legitimate use of the blink tags, according to User Friendly.)

You are .jpg You are very colorful. Sometimes you forget things, or distort the truth. You like working with pictures more than words.
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For almost as long as I can remember I have been a total aviation freak, and I intend to put some pictures, links and essays on this page when I have time to start surfing/scanning or writing. For now, some pictures, and some work by others will have to suffice.

For a course in Cosmology which I'm currently taking, I wrote a report on Giordano Bruno. It can be found here: .dvi, .pdf and .ps

For a not yet reviewed version of my Klein Onderzoek verslag on 'Enrichment by Population III stars', click here.

My final 'Groot Onderzoek' report is listed as a pdf here.

This is a somewhat modified picture of a Schleicher Ka-7, with the help of XView

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.....
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. - Wilbur Wright

To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a
saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.
- Nevil Shute

High Flight
Oh I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of ---Wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence.Hovering there
I've chased the shouting wind along and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up along delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace,
Where never lark, or even eagle flew;
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
(John Gillespie Magee Jr.)

In the summer of 2001 I was finally able to learn to fly. I did this with the Groninger Studenten Aeroclub . Some pictures can be found here and here.