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Almostvision’s Grand Final is here!

You have voted, and our eight finalists are here with one last performance to represent 324 Bamberga in the @spacerockvision 2019!

Here is a form that you can use to seal the artists’ fate. Please fill it out as you go!

Here are the songs:

Song #1: “Forgive Me Friend” - Smith & Thell ft. Swedish Jam Factory (Sweden) Song #2: “You Got To Run (Spirit of the Wind)” - Buffy Sainte Marie & Tanya Tagaq (Canada) Song #3: “Dombolo” - Les Amazones d’Afrique feat. Angélique Kidjo (Benin) Song #4: “Quăng Tao Cái Boong" - Huỳnh James x Pjnboys (Vietnam) Song #5: “Wairua” - Maimoa (New Zealand) Song #6: “Sleza” - Egor Kreed (Russia) Song #7: “Magic In The Air” - Magic System feat. Ahmed Chawki (Ivory Coast/Morocco) Song #8: “The Wolf” - Siamés (Argentina)

The voting will close on Wednesday, July 10 at 11:59 PM EST. The results will be announced immediately afterwards!

New high res asteroid images from the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile.

These images were taken by ESO’s SPHERE (Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch) instrument, installed on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory, Chile. These strikingly-detailed views reveal four of the millions of rocky bodies in the main asteroid belt, a ring of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter that separates the rocky inner planets of the Solar System from the gaseous and icy outer planets. Clockwise from top left, the asteroids shown here are 29 Amphitrite, 324 Bamberga, 2 Pallas, and 89 Julia. Named after the greek goddess Pallas Athena, 2 Pallas is about 510 kilometres wide. This makes it the third largest asteroid in the main belt and one of the biggest asteroids in the entire Solar System. It contains about 7% of the mass of the entire asteroid belt — so hefty that it was once classified as a planet. A third of the size of 2 Pallas, 89 Julia is thought to be named after St Julia of Corsica. Its stony composition led to its classification as an S-type asteroid. Another S-type asteroid is 29 Amphitrite, which was only discovered in 1854. 324 Bamberga, one of the largest C-type asteroid in the asteroid belt, was discovered even later: Johann Palisa found it in 1892. Today, it is understood that C-type asteroids may actually be bodies from the outer Solar System following the migration of the giant planets. As such, they may contain ice in their interior. Although the asteroid belt is often portrayed in science fiction as a place of violent collisions, packed full of large rocks too dangerous for even the most skilled of space pilots to navigate, it is actually very sparse. In total, the asteroid belt contains just 4% of the mass of the Moon, with about half of this mass contained in the four largest residents: Ceres, 4 Vesta, 2 Pallas, and 10 Hygiea.

Hello everyone and welcome to Almostvision! Over the years I’ve been in europal contests, there have been many times that I’ve said to myself “oh I’m definitely sending THIS song to x contest,” but then later I don’t, and pick a different country for whatever reason, due to either deciding to send something else, the song being too old, etc. Almostvision is where all the songs in that category will battle it out to compete for 324 Bamberga in @spacerockvision. 

The voting form is here. It is recommended that you fill out the form as you go, since you will be asked to rate each song individually.

So here they all are, with the countries they would have represented:

Song #1: “The Wolf” by Siamés from Argentina Song #2: “Hết Mực” by Cá Hồi Hoang from Vietnam Song #3: “Chikondi Chako” by Zani Challe from Malawi Song #4: “Carnaval” by Raul Paz from Cuba Song #5: “Kun Anta” by Humood Alkhuder from Kuwait Song #6: “Dombolo” by Les Amazones d’Afrique from Benin Song #7: “Sleza” by Egor Kreed from Russia Song #8: “Wairua” by Maimoa from New Zealand

The voting will end on June 28 at 11:59 PM EST. At that point, the top four songs will qualify for the final, and the second semifinal will start. Semifinal 2 will run from June 29 to July 4, and then the final will run from July 5 to July 10 (my birthday wow).

16 songs have entered, and one has finally been chosen to represent 324 Bamberga in @spacerockvision 3! First, a couple of notes:

1. The results sequence includes a jury vote, which was the comparing portion, and the rating portion has been converted into a televote. This way, if someone really liked a lot of songs, they would ALL get a big point boost, or whatever situation you may think of.

2. I’m probably going to be making Almostvision a regular thing with Spacerockvision for me, since I always feel bad abandoning songs when I find better ones, and this makes me feel less bad, and the song that gets second place will automatically go to the next Almostvision for another chance to win (unless it somehow ends up in a different contest first). 

Ok everyone we’re getting there! The first semifinal is over, four songs have qualified for the grand final, and four are saying goodbye to their chances to represent 324 Bamberga in @spacerockvision. Now, eight more songs will compete for the last four spots in the grand final. 

Here is the form, which you are encouraged to fill out as you go.

Now, here be songs:

Song #1: “Magic In The Air” by Magic System feat. Ahmed Chawki from the Ivory Coast and Morocco, respectively Song #2: “As A Stone” by Full Trunk and Sivan Talmor from Israel Song #3: “You Got To Run (Spirit of the Wind)” by Buffy Sainte-Marie and Tanya Tagaq from Canada Song #4: “Dəniz” by DJ Vebo feat. Əli Məmmədli from Azerbaijan Song #5: “Money” by Janais from Slovakia Song #6: “Orto Aziya” by Legentej from Russia Song #7: “Quăng Tao Cái Boong” by Huỳnh James x Pjnboys from Vietnam Song #8: “Forgive Me Friend” by Smith & Thell ft. Swedish Jam Factory from Sweden

The voting will end on July 4 at 11:59 PM EST. The grand final will happen immediately after the votes have been counted.

Bamberg: un gioiello di arte sacra in Baviera/Bamberg an art jewel in the heart of Bavaria.

Pochi conoscono la bella città di Bamberg in Baviera, un gioiello di arte e fede,  perfetto per una visita nel tempo natalizio, quando le luci e la neve la rendono magica. Nata in epoca antica come roccaforte, venne trasformata da Enrico II il Santo e dalla moglie Cunegonda in una piccola “città santa” che fu sempre importante sede vescovile. Bamberg conserva intatto il ricco patrimonio religioso…