Seven years on Mars… on Mars… on Mars…

Around this time seven years ago today I was doing a very good impression of a zombie, having stayed up all night to watch the heartstopping landing of the rover “Spirit” on Mars. I had followed the whole thing live, via NASA TV, on a small RealPlayer box that kept freezing and breaking-up into a shattered kaleidescope [...]

Partial solar eclipse from Kendal…

So, how did we get on watching the partial solar eclipse from Kendal? Um… not very well. It didn’t look good when my alarm went off at 6am and the next thing I heard was rain lashing against the window. That’s not a sound a would-be eclipse watcher wants to hear. But, ever the optimists, [...]

EAS event for the BBC’s “Stargazing LIVE” series

Like many astronomical societies across the country, Kendal’s Eddington AS organised an event to support the BBC’s “Stargazing LIVE” programmes, which are on BBC2 this week. Our event was a “Skywatch”, held in Abbot Hall Park last night, at which we planned… hoped… to show members of the public Jupiter and Uranus plus many other [...]