Jack Szostak presented a talk titled “The origin of life on Earth” which I personally found one of the best of the whole conference. It was a bit unsettling for me though as for the first time I actually felt … Continue reading
Richard Dawkins presented a very enjoyable talk titled “Exobiology and Religion” at the Starmus Festival on Tenerife.
This month’s deep sky object is a Globular Cluster, this time M56 in Lyra. Why? Because I really like Globular Clusters with a Milky Way background – and this is what the M56 region offers us 🙂 M56 lies at … Continue reading
Managed to get the deck treated without the threatening rain actually coming down. Plastic over the all Aluminium pier as it is threatening to rain again, and this time it looks like it means it. Gary is due to deliver … Continue reading
Nobel Laureate and astrophysicist George Smoot gave a talk titled “Signals from the beginning” at the Starmus Festival, Tenerife. Garik – how on Earth did you get all these megastars to come along?
The coach driver took a stop here on our way up to the Teide Observatories and Noel Carboni snapped this one when I wasn’t looking 🙂 Nice picture Noel.
Noel Carboni got this one of me in front of the Observatories at the Teide Observatories site in the Teide National Park, Tenerife. A glorious day like every day spent on Tenerife – what a place for Sun lovers 🙂
It is evening and the Sun is setting fast now. Having disturbed Brian’s peaceful contemplation of the beautiful Sunset behind the distant caldera I added insult to injury by getting a photo opportunity in as as well. Sorry Brian 🙂 … Continue reading
A star party was held at the Parador Turismo hotel in the Teide National Park. Brilliant – I’ll be able to get some great shots of the Scorpius region. So here is a single sub from the Canon 5D MkII. … Continue reading
I said that Garik Israelian had assembled an unbelievable lineup of mega-celebrities! What do you make of this then? On the left we have Bill Anders, Apollo8 astronaut who had just given a talk on “Early American Space Program”. In … Continue reading
