So today’s APOD describes Spica as bright bluish. Well you’re slowly getting there guys, eventually you’ll cotton on. If you check out the negativity of the B-V index you’ll find that Spica is in fact the 3rd bluest star in … Continue reading
Today’s APOD is a nice Mars, Ceres, Vesta image, but the words to go with the image are a bit of a let down. We read – “Clearly outshining bluish Spica ………..” – BLUISH SPICA!! The brightest blue star in … Continue reading
First the positive. 90 pages of the new book completed, estimated total 250 pages. Now the negative. All my (5) observatory computers are XP-based machines as there are still plenty of astronomy bits running on ancient software. As you know … Continue reading
My recent Mars & Spica DSLR image made today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD). Thank you Jim for publishing my work 🙂
I had discussions with a book publisher yesterday to see how he felt about a “photography book” project I have been mulling over for around 2 or 3 years now. I am pleased to say that he thought it was … Continue reading
Last night I managed to get out imaging for the first time in over 2 months. After an imaging session with the mini-WASP array (which I had almost forgotten how to use) I shut down the observatory and came outside … Continue reading
Sirius “Louey” honorary human – 18th May 2006 – 5th March 2014, far too soon 🙁
I deleted an earlier post about belief in God as I don’t think it gave a true representation of my feelings on the subject. Why is there a discussion on “belief in God” at all on an astronomy web-site? Because … Continue reading
Today’s EPOD (Earth Science Picture of the Day) is a particularly dense part of the Milky Way I found by looking at a Planetarium program – it is in Cygnus. I called it “Stars Like Dust” after the Isaac Asimov … Continue reading
