New blog – finally.
It’s taken me a while to get around to it, but I finally installed wordpress on here. Not that the old marzipan software wasn’t pretty good, but the ridiculous amount of comment spam it was getting...
View ArticleGoing over galaxies with a fine-toothed comb
Last week I gave the July lecture at Macclesfield Astronomical Society at the village hall in Goostrey. I’ve been a member of the society since I was eleven, and it still feels strange to be giving...
View ArticlePimms, finger food, and tales of the end of the world
Sounds like a recipe for a good evening, doesn’t it? That was the menu on offer at the Shropshire Astronomical Society summer social held in Rodington yesterday evening. I was invited to be the guest...
View ArticleSciBAr-arama
I’m a compulsive communicator, I can’t help it. Having suffered from almost paralysing stage fright in my school days, I now jump at any opportunity to stand in front of a public audience and talk...
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Quadrantid meteor shower
January 4th sees the peak of the annual Quadrantid meteor shower. The Quadrantids is often a poorly-observed event due to the weather in the northern hemisphere at this time of year, and 2015 is worse...
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New year starts with a bang in Romania
Never mind the new year fireworks, the start of 2015 happened with an even bigger bang, at least if you happened to be in Romania, Moldova or the Ukraine. The early hours of January 7th saw a massive...
View ArticleImpact: 10,260 and counting
Looking back over my outreach activities since I moved to Australia in 2008, I seem to have reached more people than I thought. For the three years I was in Perth I ran the outreach activities of our...
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Fireball surprises European stargazers
Sunday night saw a massive fireball over southern Germany, Switzerland, and eastern France. Reports put the time of the event at around 19:48 GMT. Witnesses from Germany, Switzerland, France and...
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Heavens above, it’s a solar eclipse!
You may have heard that tomorrow (Friday 20th March 2015) there will be a solar eclipse. Here in mainland UK it will only be partial, but a large percentage of the Sun will be covered by the Moon so...
View ArticleSolarsphere: two festivals in one
Last weekend saw the first Solarsphere festival, an extravaganza of music and astronomy hosted at Penmaenau Farm in Builth Wells, Wales. And what a weekend it was! The farm is well set up for hosting...
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