As always it is a very pleasant surprise to open up the Earth Science Picture of the Day page and find a Parker/Carboni image on the screen 🙂 Today it is the large widefield version of the Leo Trio taken … Continue reading
Today’s EPOD is my Mercury and Jupiter twilight shot taken on 17th April 2011. Thank you Jim for publishing this one 🙂
On last night’s (4th April 2011) Meridian Weather, Simon Parkin showed the Leo Trio image acquired at the New Forest Observatory. Video footage Copyright Meridian News and Weather. View the video here.
The New Forest Observatory image of the Markarian Chain of galaxies made an appearance on Simon Parkin’s Weather programme on Meridian TV both last night at 6:20 p.m. (I missed that one) and today at 3:55 p.m. (caught that one … Continue reading
Apparently Simon Parkin showed the Markarian Chain of galaxies (now crossing your southern horizon) acquired at the New Forest Observatory, on his weather slot on Meridian TV tonight. Unfortunately I didn’t see it – damn!!
Got phoned up by Radio Solent this morning to make a few comments on UFOs – aired live about 10:40 a.m. Well what can I say? To quote Arthur C Clarke “You haven’t seen a UFO unless you got the … Continue reading
Simon Parkin showed the recent Jupiter and Mercury close encounter image on his Weather slot on Meridian TV recently. Video footage Copyright Meridian TV.
The International Space Station image taken last night (and shown in the post below) made it onto Simon Parkin’s weather programme tonight 🙂 Footage Copyright Meridian T.V.
A very lively party at Sir Patrick’s last night, all the usual suspects present. This was a double celebration of the 700th Sky at Night, and Sir Patrick’s birthday (which was the day before). Sir Patrick had supposedly invited 70 … Continue reading
The Sun track pinhole camera image made it into the Daily Mail online 🙂 Not exactly an accurate representation of what went on but I am rather used to it by now 🙂
