June 8, 2009
I’ve just been reminded by my mother about the time when I just started getting interested in astronomy. As any enthusiastic 12 year old would do […]
May 21, 2009
As the May break is approaching for the school term I’ve decided to indulge in some “science centre spotting”. I’ve been itching to get up to […]
May 18, 2009
I travelled down to London this weekend for the annual general meeting for the British Association of Planetaria. It was held at the Royal Observatory at […]
April 23, 2009
Today marks the launch of the long anticipated “Portal to the Universe”. On Tuesday (21st April) Lars Lindberg Christensen gave participants attending the IYA 2009 in […]
April 21, 2009
Immediately after the press conference by Michel Mayor, the reporters from the press conference were led to a writers workshop being presented on the science behind […]
April 21, 2009
Well, I’ve arrived at the University of Hertfordshire, where the JENAM 2009 meeting is taking place. Dr. Henri Boffin from ESO and Michel Mayor are giving […]
April 6, 2009
And we are back live with the Virtual Telescope with 100 Hrs of Remote Observing, this should now be changed to 124 hrs! Gianluca has set […]
April 6, 2009
Some shocking news that has greeted me just now, that Italy has been struck by a devastating Earthquake and many are injured and worse. My first […]
April 5, 2009
Here we go again, Gianluca Masi has managed to open the observatory to begin the observations with the Virtual Telescope and for the time being we […]