It’s Carnival time again… :-)

We all have busy lives. There are so many demands on our time now that it’s hard, if not impossible, to keep up with all the good stuff on t’internet. Oh, if only there was a site you could go to where the best of the week’s space and astronomy blogging was gathered togethet in [...]

The Night of the Lost Moon…

So. My plan last night was – after getting home from work – to get my telescope out, head up to Kendal Castle, and have a good Moon-gazing session. The main aim of the evening was to see, and maybe even get a photo of, the Apollo 11 landing site in the Sea of Tranquility. [...]

Apollo Outreach…

Thanks to collectSPACE.com for adding my July 17th Apollo talk – at Kendal Library – to their guide to everything that’s going on to commemorate the anniversary…

NASA’s Return To The Moon has begun…

Earlier today, something very, very important happened. The world changed – not in a huge way, not in a way that shook houses, or knocked plates off shelves, or made dogs howl in the street. In fact, unless you were a space geek, watching it live online, you wouldn’t have realised anything was happening at [...]

Hubble poems…

I am VERY honoured to have my poems inspired  by the recent Hubble Servicing Mission featured on the Hubble Heritage website! http://heritage.stsci.edu/commonpages/art/literature/index.html

Carnival of Space time again..!

Yes, the latest CARNIVAL OF SPACE – #108 -  is now available for you to read. So go to the fantastic “STARTS WITH A BANG!” blog to catch up on the best of the week’s space blogging! http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2009/06/carnival_of_space_108_solstice.php

One small step for (a) man… alas, one giant FAIL for Mankind

Welcome to Carnival of Space #109 readers! Someone asked me the other day “When do you think they’ll actually invent a time machine?” After my initial deep, patient sigh of despair, I actually realised something important and told my friend “They already did, centuries ago. It’s called a camera…” And that’s true, isn’t it? Cameras [...]

NLC seen at last!

After missing out on the big display of NLC that amazed people across the UK on Tuesday night I couldn’t help wondering – and hoping – for a repeat performance last night, so at 10.30 I dragged myself away from Newsnight to look up at the sky, hoping to see a hint, a trace, a [...]

Fantastic NLC display seen from Kendal…

I wish I’d stayed up late last night… there was a BIG display of noctilucent clouds visible across the UK after midnight, and it was well seen from here in Kendal by the Eddington Astronomical Society’s founder, Philip Stobbart and our Treasurer, David Allan. You can read Phil’s report, and see some stunning pictures, here… [...]

Chris Riley – Britain’s “Man In The Moon”

Sigh. This Apollo anniversary is going to end up costing me a fortune, I swear. I was wandering around in Waterstones the other day, not looking for anything in particular, when a book in the “Popular Science” section caught my eye. At first glance I thought it was in the wrong place, that some idiot [...]