Here are a few videos from the gig last night. They’re pretty large, and will easily scale to full screen if you have the bandwidth. Again, the audio quality is a bit ropey – I also had some problems with the autofocus. But hey, it’s better than nothing (but not as good as being there!) I’ll post first some...
read more
I spent some time over the last couple of weeks weeding out my meteorite collection, with the aim of selling off a lot of less interesting ones, and buying a few historical falls. The results are beginning to appear. A couple of small micros first – Quenggouk (fell in Irrawaddy, Burma, 1857) - very rare, with a total weight...
read more
OK, well the Met Office may not be beating a path, but as a hobbyist it seemed too good to pass up. I’ve always had a hankering for one of those weather stations you mount on the roof, which can plug into your computer and push onto the internet. It had to be relatively cheap, easy to assemble, wireless (not drilling holes in...
read more
The Kepler mission was launched March 6th, 2009 from Cape Canaveral. It’s about 2.7m diameter and 4.7m long, and weighed about a tonne at launch. Its 1.4m mirror is coupled to a sensitive photometer and it will be spending three and a half years staring at the same spot in the sky. Sound kinda boring? Well, staring at one...
read more
Newly-discovered asteroid 2011 CQ1 will make its closest approach to earth around 1700GMT – about 20 minutes time. The ‘miss distance’ (yes, that’s the technical term) is 60,000 miles, or about a quarter of the distance to the moon. It’s 2m across so about the size of a family car. You can see a...
read more 
Authored by Mark Crawford | Designed by Elegant Themes | Powered by Wordpress | Made on an iMac
Recent Comments