Yet another correctly forecast solar eclipse this week. It’s almost as if these things were entirely predictable, and not harbingers of doom or portents of marvellous events to come. Chalk yet another one up for science. I managed to grab some nice snaps from our garden:
Writing tagged: ‘astronomy’
Equinox
I get that ‘equi-nox’ = ‘equal night’, but what we all really want to know is who’s this Vernon chap it’s named after? Postscript (5 hours later): OK, so, the Internet is weird. Someone on Twitter has just thanked me for the above crappy joke, which he immediately used as the inspiration for a short… Continue reading Equinox
We made that!
Steady Mercury
Last night, I spotted the new crescent moon setting over Heptonstall, accompanied by Venus off to the far right. So I grabbed this photo… It was only while I was processing the photo this morning that I realised I'd also bagged Mercury (faint dot, just right of centre). Not bad for a 300mm telephoto lens… Continue reading Steady Mercury
Missing matter
The missing links between galaxies have finally been found.
Cosmological conversation with my dad
Re. the distance to the sun.
BBC science fail
There is nothing ‘coincidental’ about a lunar eclipse occurring during a full moon.
Eclipse
Some photos of a partial solar eclipse.
Near miss
Had Frederick Miller not lost an eye in a freak golfing accident back in 1885, I might be Prime Minister right now.
Talking through their Eridanus hole
The void: Imprint of another universe?