Clik here to view.
This Earth
The Earth seen from Apollo 17. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I was watching a repeat broadcast of a television program the other day which described our solar system and its wonders. The program was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Morning stars
English: Pleiades Star Cluster (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This illustration shows the approximate sizes of the planets relative to each other. Outward from the Sun, the planets are Mercury, Venus,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Would you go?
Mars, 2001, with the southern polar ice cap visible on the bottom. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) It is proposed that by the year 2023 four humans will set foot on the planet Mars. Two years after that four...
View ArticleClik here to view.
When it becomes an obsession
Astronomy For Beginners (Photo credit: AndyRobertsPhotos) For most of my life I have had an avid interest in Astronomy and in my early years it occupied most of my time, even into my late teens. Whilst...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Winter Solstice but did you know the rest?
Milankovitć-Cycles (named after the Kroatian Mathematician Milutin Milankovitć), describing the variations in the earth orbit under the influence of the other planets (mainly Jupiter and Saturn)....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Things are looking up
A home-made 150mm Newtonian telescope on an altazimuthal mount This is a great time of year for astronomy, stargazing and such because of the still winter air and long nights, not that I have been...
View ArticleClik here to view.
It is getting better……honest!
Location of the Channel Islands A couple of days ago I was sitting at home writing one of my posts and mentioning something about the brilliant sunshine we were enjoying in our part of the country....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Determined and driven
NASA astronaut Robert L. Curbeam, Jr. (left) and European Space Agency astronaut Christer Fuglesang, both STS-116 mission specialists, participate in the mission’s first of three planned sessions of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
So what is wrong in the picture?
To see more clearly click on the picture twice. It was taken with my Nexus 10 tablet and isn’t too bad a picture as far as quality goes, nothing like as good as it would be with a dedicated camera of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Early one morning
Venus reflected in the Pacific Ocean (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Early one morning (Tuesday to be exact) and before the sun was rising as opposed to the song’s version, just as the sun was rising,...
View Article