September 29th
Happy Rosh Hashanah (Jewish new year) to all who celebrate it. I was thinking about maybe going to Southampton for the celebrations, but after a weekend away i feel i need a night in.
Also, happy new moon, new month to everybody. I have been particularly fascinated with the moon the last couple of months. It's [...]
August 16th
Last night i went to visit a friend with a telescope and we had a great time looking at the moon, stars and Jupiter. Through the telescope i also saw three of Jupiter's moons, looking like tiny pinpricks of light.
We had clouds to contend with, but our moon just looked so beautiful, even with a [...]
August 14th
The camera is a total sham when it comes to photographing stars and planets.
Wherever you are tonight, look at the full moon, and have a look for Jupiter too. It is beautiful. I wish i had some good equipment for viewing and photographing such spectacular celestial sights. This is about the best i could do.
Tomorrow [...]
December 13th
I saw a shooting star! :D
I persuaded my partner to come out with me; we went to a field nearby where it was much darker and we could see the Milky Way! I pointed out Mars, Orion, Pegasus, Triangulum, Andromeda, the Plough and the North Star. That's about as much as i know at the [...]
December 12th
Astronomy is suddenly cool, it seems! This morning one colleague came in and said, "I saw Mars last night!" Another said, "I saw Mars this morning, and possibly Venus too!" I said, "I think i might have seen Mercury this morning!" and another colleague sent us all an email alerting us to the Geminids meteor [...]
December 2nd
We have our good friend Nat with us for the weekend, and are having a lovely time together.
I got up early yesterday and went for my run. I saw both Venus and Mars, with a nice half-moon between the two, plus a whole lot of stars. It was beautiful. My run was a bit harder [...]
November 29th
It is a beautiful clear night, perfect for seeing the stars. During my run i went along the road out of town, and i saw LOADS of stars as soon as i got out of the street lights. Unfortunately it was too dark to see the pavement, so i had to turn back. But just [...]
November 27th
It is a well known fact that i am all kinds of geeky. I enjoy programming, i have a slightly suspicious interest in busses and trains, and i have recently become very interested in cosmology, quantum physics, parallel universes, string theory and a ten-dimensional universe! Well i think i have just discovered another geeky interest: [...]
November 24th
UPDATE: I have since discovered that this planet is Venus, not Mercury!!
I'm no photographer, but i managed to capture a few nice images of Mercury this morning. I am pretty pleased with these - even my very average camera couldn't miss Mercury today, it was so bright! Click on any picture for the full-size image.
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