Londonist have just picked up on the planetarium story, but make some excellent points about the Science Museum too. I’ve always wondered about the lack of interest in their astronomy exhibits (as opposed to the Spaceflight section) – a couple of years ago they were still showing the original design for the International Space Station [...]
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In case you haven’t spotted it, next Monday night (the 27th) is Moon night on BBC4. This includes a bonus Sky at Night which includes some fabulous images taken through Patrick’s telescopes, and Allan Chapman being let loose with a catapult.
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Inspired by this paper a few of us at UCL have begun thinking through some of the problems. I’ll try and summarize things here as I think that attempting to answer some of these fundamental questions provides a nice illustration of what we do and do not know.
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Following a couple of requests, I’ve put the pdf versions of the powerpoint to two popular talks online, should anyone want a look.
Cosmology for the Terrified
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In response to a comment left on a post below, yes it was very windy in Hawai’i which did interfere with the seeing conditions (as did the nearly full moon on that trip). More generally, though, what professionals want from an observing site can be different from amateur requirements. Most modern large optical telescopes allow [...]
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It’s probably a little late to plug this, but a round of comments on the Hawaii program reminded me to say that the last repeat of the Hawai’i program is on BBC2 on Saturday, at 12.45. All comments welcome.
That means that January’s program should be online soon, along with the last few year’s worth.[...]
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This story, well-handled in both the Guardian and the BBC, has been brewing for a while. Gerry Gilmore told us a little about the results back in November 2004 when we filmed the Chile program, but it’s still slightly shocking to see in print. The following all comes with the disclaimer that there doesn’t appear [...]
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Reading about the closure of the London Planetarium in the Independent yesterday struck me as just sad. It’s fair to say that I haven’t paid it much attention since visiting five or so years ago, which is a terrible indictment in itself, I suppose.
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Then Today rang and invited me to go and see a show [...]