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At this very moment I have the BBC2 Horizon programme about multiverses on.

They are taking complete and utter garbage to an entirely new level.

The lisping female narrator is really the icing on the cake.  Absolutely nothing wrong with hiring someone with a speech impediment BBC – but to narrate a science programme?  Come on, time to get serious, you are after all well on your way to losing the licence fee – this sort of Idiocracy² format is not going to do you any favours at all.

This isn’t dumbing down – this is the creation of a creature with a negative IQ.

Get a grip guys!

In order to keep my hand in the HSF world, I will be making a batch of high-speed flash units that will be available early 2016.

Talking to a number of professional users I have decided that the specification for the new batch of units will be:

1.  Light output power 75 Joules.
2. Light pulse duration 25-microseconds (1/40,000th of a second).

• Recharge time less than 5 seconds.

The units will be powered by a 12V dry battery pack (supplied with charger unit).  Estimated cost of a flash unit, battery pack and charger is £2,000 plus VAT at 20%, plus p&p.

Let me know if you have an interest in this equipment.

Please look under the “Courses” heading for a brand new course available from today.

This is the “I have been given a telescope for Christmas and I don’t know what to do with it” course.

Get up to speed with one-to-one tuition from Prof. Greg Parker at the New Forest Observatory 🙂

Another 6-minute long ISS pass from last night.  The earlier 21:41 pass was completely clouded out.