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Observatory Build – Part 1 16 Dec 2011 | 04:21 am
I’ve finally got around to starting to build an observatory. After several false starts and several years of saying I must build an observatory I’m finally doing it! Finally got fed up of polar aligni...
Imaging Jupiter – My Methodology 28 Sep 2011 | 04:25 am
Jupiter will be at opposition (opposite the Sun in our sky) in late October. This is when it is closest to Earth and therefore largest and brightest. It’s around this time it becomes very noticeable a...
Pas-de-Calais 8 Sep 2011 | 08:40 am
We were a bit late booking anything for holidays this year and were considering Scotland. We couldn’t face the long drive for 10 days so we hit upon the brainwave of going to Camping de la Bien Assise...
Moving Day 27 Jul 2011 | 03:33 am
I have imported all the posts and comments from my old blog that was in ExpressionEngine. I need to kill that off as it’s using a lot of my webspace and is out of date and gets spammed. I’m having to...
Barbury Bash 110km Audax 20 Jul 2011 | 07:44 am
This was my third Audax for the 2011 season and the first I’ve entered without my brother. The start is only a few kilometres from my front door so it is a very convenient event for me to enter. There...
Cotswolds Cycling 11 Jul 2011 | 07:40 am
Snowshill Lavender Great ride with CTC Wantage today. The Cotswolds (if you don’t know) are an area of outstanding natural beauty which straddles Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire. The landscape is rol...
Eddington Number 5 Jul 2011 | 03:15 am
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington is well known as a British astrophysicist of the early 20th century. The Eddington limit, the natural limit to the luminosity of stars, or the radiation generated by accre...
Aberystwyth to Liverpool 27 May 2011 | 03:01 am
I’m about to embark on part two of my and my brother-in-law Andrew’s coastal tour of Wales which may or may not end up being extended further around the coast of Great Britain. In 2010 we cycle campe...
‘Supermoon’ 22 Mar 2011 | 09:39 pm
There have been some ridiculous news stories over the so-called ‘Supermoon’ of 19th March 2011. Especially the irresponsible one by the Daily Mail suggesting the Tōhoku earthquake of 11th March was ca...
New Astrogallery 1 Feb 2011 | 02:20 am
OK, I’m happy to release my new Astro Images gallery now. I’m using Flickr to store images, sharing, comments etc. I’ve written a WordPress plugin which uses the JSON feed from Flickr to display the i...
