Twitpics from Space
ISS astronaut Soichi Noguchi gets quite a view! Lucky for us he’s tweeting much of it from onboard the ISS. Here is a small sample and all the links to get you going.
Tag Archives: Twitter
.Astronomy CAS Talk
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.
Bombing the Moon
On Friday, NASA’s LCROSS Moon mission ended with the probe taking a nose dive onto the Lunar surface. This was all planned and was a great way to see what lay underneath the surface at the Moon’s intriguing South Pole. LCROSS was impacting inside a crater that is perpetually in shadow. Such conditions could allow [...]
Tweprints Update
Back in April I launched a new project called arXiv on Twitter, or just ‘Tweprints’. This website collects the tweets that mention papers from the arXiv website (a pre-print server for scientific papers) and organises and presents them for the reader.
Bienvenue OverTwitter
I have been working on a way to internationalize (is that a word?) my OverTwitter feeds, which predict visible passes of satellites as well as Iridium flares. It started to become embarrassing that the @overparis, @overmadrid and @overberlin feeds were not in French, Spanish and German, for example.
I think it is technically now possible and so I am putting [...]
arXiv on Twitter
I like arXiv and I like Twitter, so I decided to combine to two. arXiv on Twitter is a weekend project that captures mentions of arXiv papers on Twitter and then displays them in interesting ways. I hope that this will eventually lead to the most talked-about papers rising to the top of the list [...]
Poster and Handout About Satellite Spotting
During next week’s Moonwatch event at Cardiff University, I’ll be manning a stand showing people how to use Twitter, Google Earth and the Internet to find satellites in the night sky. As well as showing them how to use Heaven’s Above, I’ll also be outlining my own projects OverTwitter, LookUp and Satellite KML.
Triple Conjunction
I took some images of the triple conjunction of Jupiter, Venus and the Moon. It was a very pretty event, and I’ve hardly done it justice, but I thought I’d add my photos into the mix.
UNAWE in Kenya
A lovely short film from UNAWE.
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