I wrote, just before my laptop left my life (incidentally, if you happen to be in Shepherd’s Bush with a newly acquired MacBookPro which, shall we say, fell into your hands, then I’m desperate enough to pay to have it back. Drop me an email?) a long piece about a fantastic paper released last week [...]
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I’m sorry for the lack of posts over the weekend; I did have a few posts ready to go, but someone in Shepherd’s Bush decided to steal my laptop instead.
Some sort of service will resume shortly, normal service will resume when I can work out how to afford a replacement.addthis_url [...]
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Sometimes, all too rarely, there is a news story which needs no further explanation. How wonderful is this image? The rovers have been doing incredible things (and I’m looking forward to interviewing their creator, Steve Squyers, again next month) but to see one of them from orbit just illustrates how rapidly Mars exploration is advancing.
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The fourth of the entries in the Sky at Night magazine’s ‘Hotshots’ competition is our second photo of the Great Orion nebula, M42, which couldn’t look much different from the last one. This one was taken through narrowband filters in order to avoid the worst of the light pollution, which seems to have brought out [...]
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You’re going to be sick of hearing about Bang! (the book I’ve written with Patrick and Brian May) before too long, but I’m still extremely excited about it; partly because I really can’t believe that a book came out of the chaotic mess of meetings and emails that spanned the last three years. If you [...]
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This month’s Sky at Night, as those of you who have seen it might have noticed, was a little different than normal in that we essentially had three seperate topics (on the extended, BBC4, version). I would be very interest to receive ANY feedback – positive or negative, in the comments or via email – [...]
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More content to follow with any luck later today, but for now here’s the third of the hotshots; the Moon over St Paul’s cathedral. I really can’t make up my mind over this shot. The cross in front of the full Moon is fantastic, but the plane (amusing though it is) seems to detract from [...]
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The second entry for the competition is this shot of the great Orion nebula. This happens to be my favourite object in the sky (and if it isn’t yours, why on Earth not?); I saw it first through my own six inch reflector, on a very dark and clear night and I can still remember [...]
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One of the most enjoyable tasks I’ve had in the last few weeks (along with moving office to a different city, and finding a flat, and submitting my thesis…) was judging the Sky at Night magazine’s photo competition. Now, they’re not having any sort of public vote, relying on a panel of judges to select [...]
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