Carnival of Space 125

Carnival of Space 125

Oct 18

I am pleased to be hosting this week's quasquicentennial Carnival of Space - a collection of the best space-related blog posts from the past week.

Eyes on the Skies

Eyes on the Skies

May 11

I have just found myself in possession of a DVD called Eyes on the Skies. I watched a few minutes of it just now and it looks very interesting. It seems that anyone can get a copy. Eyes on the Skies is a book and a movie that is freely available for public events carried out by educators, science centres, planetariums, amateur astronomers etc. It has been produced for the International Year of...

Make Your Own Moonwatch

Make Your Own Moonwatch

Mar 27

Next week is Moonwatch week and if you're holding an event locally you might want to use one of these posters to advertise it on your front gate or local lamp posts. A Twitter success story.

Over Twitter Update

Over Twitter Update

Jan 31

I have updated and expanded the collection of ISS- and Hubble-spotting Twitter feeds. You can get the low down on these transit-predicting feeds on my Over Twitter page, which also now features a map showing the list of current feeds and the next expected transit information.

Spacebuzz

Spacebuzz

Oct 15

Stuart (Astronomy Blog) has been busy since the .Astronomy Conference and has come up with a rather nifty tool called Spacebuzz. This one-page website uses blog tags to compile a list of the current hop topics in the astronomy blogosphere.

Get an Automatic APOD Desktop

Get an Automatic APOD Desktop

Sep 01

I was tinkering about earlier and created this automator script, which changes my desktop image to be today's APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day). This is Mac OS X only.