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Memorable APOD prose of the day

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

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Positive and negative news

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

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A new book project is underway!

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

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Mars and Spica in the south

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

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Louey – in profile

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RIP Sirius “Louey”

Sirius “Louey” honorary human – 18th May 2006 – 5th March 2014, far too soon 🙁  

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The existence or non-existence of God

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

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A question to those that deny climate change

Where are the peer-reviewed Journal papers in a quality publication to back up your claims??

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Supernova in M82

But will we get 10-minutes of clear sky to be able to image it?

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Astroimaging 2014

On the 17th – 18th February 2014 there will be a joint Royal Photographic Society/Royal Astronomical Society meeting on Astroimaging. Looks like this will be an interesting event.

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