Mercury Setting
Apr 07
Mercury, the innermost planet, is currently making one of its elusive appearances in the night sky. Being so close to the Sun, and fairly small, Mercury is only visible when our line of sight to it places it at its most easterly or most westerly point. The orbit of Mercury is not very wide and so this means that even at its greatest elongation from the Sun it is still only visible for a few days,...
Triple Conjunction
Dec 02
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.
Life from Venus Blown to Earth
Jul 26"Prof Chandra Wickramasinghe and Dr Janaki Wickramasinghe claim Venus's clouds contain chemicals that are consistent with the presence of micro organisms." These two are from Cardiff's centre for Astrobiology and the elder of the two has singlehandedly given the field a bad name over the past twenty years. The whole concept of this idea is that life form in clouds on Venus and blew to Earth...
Top Ten Astronomy Pictures of the Day (APOD)
Aug 29
I love NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day, known to its friends as APOD. So to honour that Great website, which has been running for more than a decade, I here present my own personal top ten list of APODs. They may not be quite the same as anyone else Top Ten but they represent some of the best things about the APOD site as well as being some of the most impressive images. 10: Mars Then and...
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