Eclipse-watching from Narnia…

Well, the weather co-operated, my phone’s alarm woke me up as planned, and I didn’t break my neck carrying a ton of equipment up the steep, ice-coated hill to Kendal Castle this morning, and I saw the total lunar eclipse! Reward, I think, for missing so many events “up there” recently because of bad weather… At [...]

TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE on Dec 21st visible from Cumbria (and across the UK)

There will be a TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE tomorrow morning, visible across Cumbria and the whole of the UK (and other parts of the world too, of course). Here are the details if you want to watch it from Cumbria – please note, if you’re a reader from elsewhere in the UK, your times of “moonset” [...]

Events being held in Cumbria for the BBC’s “Stargazing LIVE”

In January the BBC will be showing a special series of programmes designed to introduce people to the brilliant hobby of star-gazing, or amateur astronomy. Astronomical Societies up and down the country will be supporting the programmes by holding special events – observing nights, lectures, exhibitions, things like that. If you want to know what [...]

Aliens found on Earth? Er… no.

So, 24 hours ago, NASA made The Announcement, the announcement that had been kept secret for days, ever since NASA announced it would be making an announcement. The story was hidden behind a strict embargo (which, in the end, failed miserably because all it took to figure out The Big Secret was a determined Google [...]