Book review: “The Sky’s Dark Labyrinth” by Stuart Clark

If there’s any justice in the world, right now, as you read this, there’s a meeting being held, somewhere in the bowels of the BBC, at which a panel of dark-suited, bespectacled execs are discussing the casting of the next big budget BBC historical drama… “So, we’re here to discuss the casting for ‘The Sky’s [...]

ISS over Kendal Castle

Took advantage of a clear sky, a new camera and a late, bright, high “pass” of the International Space Station last night to try and get a picture I’ve wanted to take for years – the space station arcing over Kendal Castle… It didn’t turn out quite as planned, because in the end the ISS was [...]

Kendal Solar System Scale Model Day #3 report…

Yesterday, for the third year running, Kendal’s EDDINGTON ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY set-out a scale model of the solar system in the town, positioning Society members along the bank of the River Kent, along with a tiny model of “their” planet,  pictures and information sheets. Everything was to the correct scale – the planet models were in [...]

Northern lights seen from Kendal…!

Over the past couple of days the Sun has been going a bit nuts, firing off solar flares and sending quite large amounts of solar…stuff.. towards Earth. So, last night hopes were high that we might, possibly, perhaps, maybe see some auroral activity from the UK, if conditions were right. Unfortunately the weather didn’t look [...]