This is the first time that Buzz Aldrin and Alexei Leonov met in the Starmus Festival main hall. What a photo opportunity! There was a mad dash for the stage to get “the shot” and a little bit of jostling … Continue reading
Board showing key players at the Starmus Festival – the whole thing was put together by Garik Israelian. Must admit – never been referred to as a leg end before 🙂
Am now suffering from major Starmus withdrawal symptoms. Is it really coming up to a week since I experienced the truly amazing Tangerine Dream concert?
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.
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
