Twitpics from Space

Twitpics from Space

Feb 24

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.

.Astronomy CAS Talk

.Astronomy CAS Talk

Nov 02

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

Bombing the Moon

Oct 11

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 water ice to remain in tact from many, many millennia ago and such a collision could...

Tweprints Update

Tweprints Update

Jun 18

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

Bienvenue OverTwitter

May 11

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 out a personal plea for...