MINTFEST!

Big weekend in Kendal, as the streets, parks and arts centres are taken over by performance artists, musicians and the like. You can’t move for funny costumes, face paint and balloons! Here are some pictures I took over the weekend… And before anyone says anything I know this has nothing to do with astronomy, but [...]

Welcome to The 118th Carnival of Space!

Welcome to Carnival of Space #118, here at CUMBRIAN SKY! This is my first time hosting the Carnival, so a huge THANK YOU to Fraser, for letting me join the exclusive club of blogs lucky enough to have hosted what has to be the biggest and best weekly collection of space and astronomy writing on the [...]

Carnival of Space #117…

… is now online here… http://simostronomy.blogspot.com/2009/08/carnival-of-space-117-on-simostronomy.html … so get yourself on over to SIMOSTRONOMY and enjoy catching up on the best of the past week’s space and astronomy blogging!

Shuttle launch scrubbed… :-(

So, after working a double shift yesterday, and getting to bed at stupid o’clock I got up at ridiculous o’clock this morning, looking forward to seeing a rare, night-time launch of the space shuttle, only to find out half an hour later that the launch wasn’t going to go ahead because of bad weather. Grrr. [...]

Eddington AS “Sunwatch” a success!

You see? You see??! Have faith, everyone! The weather forecast was pretty poor for our Sunwatch, but in the end everything worked out fine! The past few days the weather had been pretty poor, and the forecast for Saturday afternoon suggested we had about as much chance of seeing the Sun as there was of [...]

“OUR AMAZING UNIVERSE!” opens in Kendal

If you’re in or around the Lake District town of Kendal, in Cumbria, you MUST go to the town’s Museum to see the new exhibition that’s opened there today. “OUR AMAZING UNIVERSE” – a joint project by Kendal’s Eddington Astronomical Society and the Museum, which is being held to celebrate the International Year of Astronomy [...]

Spirit – 2000 sols on Mars…

Today is a big day – no, a HUGE day – for fans and followers of NASA’s epic Mars Exploration Rover mission. Today, Spirit, the first of the two MERs to land on Mars, marked its 2000th day of operations on the Red Planet. 2000 days. 2000 days! This people who built, designed and sent [...]

Carnival of Space #116…

… is now available online for your spacey reading pleasure, at the “habitationintention” blog. Some really fascinating posts on there this week, so grab a coffee, and a (insert name of biscuit of your choice here… Peanut Chunky Kit Kats are a good choice for the discerning dunker, as are mint Viscounts, but you may [...]

Wave the Moon, and Mars, goodbye…

I’ve watched some depressing things in my life. The scene in Babylon 5 where the great space station is ripped apart by internal explosions… poor Dumbo’s little trunk snaking up to touch his mother’s trunk through the bars of that prison truck, both of them in tears… the Enterprise dying, in flames, as she fell [...]

Carnival of Space #115…

… is now online for you to enjoy, here…