Moving around the galactic circles that I do (even though I’m not a heavenly body or will ever be accused of having a heavenly body), I’m up in Manchester…
Hot on the heels of meeting high flyer Eileen Collins, today I’ve met Chuck Deiterich, NASA RETRO Flight Controller during the Apollo program, to attend his talk ‘A…
Today I met Eileen Collins, a former United States Air force Colonel, test pilot, instructor and NASA astronaut becoming the first female pilot and first female commander of…
My photo of the partial UK Solar Eclipse 2015, taken by my very own hands in Nottingham. I’m desperately trying to avoid using terms like celestial dance, but…
These images are the first light with ZWO ASI120MC astronomy camera. Of course, every seasoned amateur astronomer knows that the purchase of any astronomy equipment immediately brings on…
Moving in the kind of galactic circles that I do, I’m off to meet another Apollo astronaut, Fred Haise. The fantastic team at www.space-lectures.com have managed to persuade…
A view of the sun in white light revealing the sun’s visible surface, called the photosphere. Of course, looking at the sun is dangerous and it’s important to…
Sy Liebergot was a NASA flight controller on EECOM (originally standing for Electrical, Environmental, Communications but after Apollo 10 became Electrical, Environmental and Consumables Manager) during the Apollo 8 -…
The International Astronomy Show 2014. A 2 day weekend event to myself, subjected to death by Powerpoint on a series of astronomy related lectures and a line up…
Astronomy round up for week up to 17th April. Spent the day in the garden trying to coax the Philips SPC900 webcam to work. Tried imaging the Sun…
Today, I met Apollo and Space Shuttle astronaut Ken Mattingly and listen to his lecture The Spirit and Triumph of Apollo 13. The significance of the date is…
Jupiter, King of the Planets. Shining majestically in the evening sky in the constellation of Gemini at magnitude -2.8. The giant gas planet is unmistakable, helped by being…
Between 1968 and 1972, nine American spacecraft voyaged around the moon. Twelve of those men on board unearthly shaped spacecraft, stepped foot onto the surface of another world,…
It may not look much to you, but this image shows solar filaments on the surface of the sun. My best yet with my meagre equipment. Taken using…
Grab the clear skies while you can, seems to be fleeting moments between clouds for the past few weeks. Only managed a couple of Perseid meteors in the…
Britain bakes, BBQ’s and blisters, this sunshine is not to be wasted. A chance to try and image the sun in hydrogen alpha using the Coronado PST, Canon…
Watching the evolution of sunspot AR1785 changing shape rapidly as it crosses the sun. The top part of this image was taken late evening two days ago and…
Aphelion is when the Earth is at its most distant point in its elliptical orbit around the sun. For 2013, that’s today, 5th July 2013. This image was…
The sun is finally starting to show some activity and it would finally appear the sun’s 11 year pattern is reaching a peak known as solar maximum. Quite…
Photos from the National Space Centre in Leicester. We’ve been twice now to the National Space Centre, once when it first opened and more recently in June 2013. …