Answers for Allensbank
Feb 01
After a recent talk at Allensbank Primary School, I received questions for many of the children. Here are answer to three of them...
Asteroid 16 Psyche
Aug 29
The trick the finding asteroids is to look in the same place more than once. I did this both with my own telescope and using SLOOH, the online telescope network. This was my first asteroid find.
Astronomy du Jour
Aug 20
I am once again enjoying a timeout in Provence, where I have dark, clear skies most nights and a supply of good wine and too much cheese
Networking Meteors
May 11I don't normally talk about the daily APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day) images from NASA becasue they are so popular and well annotated. Today's has really caught my eye though. Between 2007 and 2009, a group of amateur meteor enthusiasts in Japan got together to create a national network of over 100 connected video cameras. They used a piece of motion-detection software called...
Close Encounters
May 05Last week I had the pleasure of visiting the BBC in Birmingham to help edit The Sky at Night as an astronomy researcher. The episode was about near-Earth objects, specifically 2008TC3, which crash landed in the Sudan last year, after being tracked from space. You can currently catch the episode on the BBC iPlayer. The BBC was very nice and friendly and the whole thing was really...
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