At LAST!!! Finally, after almost a month- a month!!! – of cloudy summer night skies, we managed to see some noctilucent clouds from here in Kendal. It’s been torture seeing photos of NLC taken by people from other parts of the UK, and reading their reports, but being unable to see those sights from here. [...]
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The DAWN team has released another new image of the asteroid Vesta, this one taken just a few days ago, and it’s a belter! It’s still a bit fuzzy, but that’s only because DAWN is still a long way away, and in the days ahead the images will get sharper and clearer, but already we [...]
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Or… “How we didn’t see the Moon, but had a brilliant night anyway…”! So, last night a total lunar eclipse was going to be visible from across the UK. The bad news ws that it was going to be very “challenging” to see. The Moon would already be totally eclipsed when it rose, shortly after [...]
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No, that’s not another Dr Who book – great title though! I’m referring to something that’s happening Out There, way out in the Deep Black, far away from Earth… As you read this, the DAWN spaceprobe is slowly but surely closing-in on Vesta, one of the largest asteroids in the solar system, waaaay bigger than [...]
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Here in the UK the latest series of DR WHO has just paused half-way through, ending on a “Oh my god!!!” cliffhanger that I won’t spoil for you, in case you’re an overseas reader who hasn’t seen it yet. But I honestly jumped halfway out of my chair when It Happened. I’ll say no more. [...]
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