Last week I gave a talk to the Cardiff Astronomical Society, I thought I’d share it for them and anyone else that might be interested. The talk overviewed some of the interesting and fun online astronomy that is going on at the moment. I also gave a demo of several websites or services.
The posters for the 2009 .Astronomy Conference are being delivered to several places around the world and should be appearing in a department near you soon. If you don’t see one, then why not print one out and put it up? Or maybe you’d like to support the conference by mentioning it on your own [...]
Flickr Find 5 of 5: The Moon. A series of posts displaying some great images recently uploaded to flickr’s astrophotography group.
Flickr Find 4 of 5: Cocoon Nebula. A series of posts displaying some great images recently uploaded to flickr’s astrophotography group.
Flickr Find 3 of 5: Antennae Galaxies. A series of posts displaying some great images recently uploaded to flickr’s astrophotography group.
Flickr Find 2 of 5: Saturn. A series of posts displaying some great images recently uploaded to flickr’s astrophotography group.
Flickr Find 1 of 5: Star Trails. A series of posts displaying some great images recently uploaded to flickr’s astrophotography group.
Here are some of my personal favourite wallpapers for your desktop (and iPhone). Sizes 1900×1200, 1024×768, 1280×800 and 800×600 are all here to fill your eyes with spacey goodness. Let your own scattering of icons sit amongst glorious nebula and spectacular scenes!
I usually have a nice space picture as my computer’s desktop wallpaper. Today someone [...]
Colorado Meteor
Originally uploaded by Mr Geoff.
Yes its that time of year again, get your 12 things ready and then pootle outside to watch the Perseids. This meteor shower peaks on Sunday night (I think) but you can catch some good shooting stars anytime up to about Tuesday really.
This photo is from the Flickr Meteors group [...]
Copyright © 2010 Robert J. Simpson. Twitter @orbitingfrog
