On a lighter note…

Look what else I got for Christmas… I know, I know. I’m a big kid. But I’ve wanted my very own model of the USS Enterprise ever since I first saw the show, (cough!) years ago… And hey… look… it does this…

Footprints in the snow…

  This is going to turn into a bit of an I-can-feel-the-end-of-the-year-coming rant, and a very personal one at that, so if you just want something spacey to read you should maybe skip this post. I just feel the need to growl at the world this morning. And it’s my blog, so if you don’t like [...]

Defiance…

Er, hello everyone… My name is Stuart Atkinson, and… I’m a DEFYING GRAVITY fan. (pause for smirks, eye-rolling and laughter). Fine, go ahead, laugh, I don’t care. Yes, yes I am a fan of the cancelled US sci-fi TV series, and I am standing here before you today to tell you all that, proudly. The [...]

Carnival of Space #134

Welcome to the 134th “Carnival of Space”! I’m delighted and proud to be the host of the 2009 Christmas Carnival, which has to be one of the busiest – and best-written – Carnivals so far. Thanks to everyone who took the time to contribute a post and, as ever, to Fraser too for running the [...]

Fascinating…

Very puzzled… Months and months after I wrote it, my initial review of the 2009 “Star Trek” movie is still the most frequently read and most popular post on my blog, with dozens of views each day… Yes, puzzled, but grateful too! I just hope some of the Trek fans who come here take a [...]

2009 Geminid meteor shower report

So…. yesterday was a fairly decent day, with quite a clear sky through the afternoon, then clouds rolled in right as it started to get dark… clear sky again at 9pm, while I was still at work, of course, and by the time I had walked back home, got changed, grabbed my binocs and trudged [...]

METEOR SHOWER visible in – ahem – the Cumbrian Sky this weekend…

If the night sky is clear over this weekend, skywatchers and stargazers across Cumbria – and across the UK – should be in for a treat, as one of the year’s best meteor showers reaches its peak.   Every mid-December the “GEMINID” meteor shower happens when the Earth passes through a stream of tiny pieces [...]

An Enterprise will fly in space – but not yet, and not this one…

TA DAH!!! And so, finally, after months of waiting and teasing, on Monday, with much pomp and ceremony, and with flashing lights galore, “Spaceship 2″, the ‘world’s first commercial passenger-carrying spacecraft’, was revealed to the world… The billioniare behind the program, Virgin boss Richard Branson, could hardly contain himself he was so excited, and as [...]

Circling Marquette…

Opportunity has been taking some more images of the huge chunk of rock called “Marquette Island”.  Here’s a colour view I made by combining three black and white images taken through different coloured filters… Lots more images of this rock over on my “Road to Endeavour” blog (see list of Links, opposite)

It’s Carnival time again… :-)

This week’s CARNIVAL OF SPACE is the 132nd, and you can read it here: http://steves-astrocorner.blogspot.com/2009/12/welcome-to-carnival-of-space.html Some great blog posts there for you to enjoy!