October 9, 2009

LCROSS has Impacted!

“The LCROSS Science team are making their preliminary assessment of data collected from the LCROSS Space craft of the plume created by the Centaur impact. Observatories […]
October 4, 2009

Happy World Space Week!

World Space Week 2009 is upon us and what better way to spend a Sunday morning than planning a primary school activity for young kids. I […]
August 27, 2009

The Kition Planetarium and Observatory in Cyprus

Everyone who knows me will know how enthusiastic I am about astronomy, especially outreach and education. With this year being the International Year of Astronomy now […]
August 26, 2009

The Virtual Telescope celebrates its 3rd Birthday – Live Event

To celebrate the Virtual Telescope’s birthday, Gianluca Masi is holding a live event now through an internet webchat through the telescope’s website, you can literally see […]
August 12, 2009

Cyprus Perseid Star Party

Tonight the Cyprus Astronomical Society are holding a star party at the square of Peristerona, near Nicosia and Kokkinotrimithia at 9pm. So if anyone is in […]
August 12, 2009

Where did all the Perseids go? Perhaps Google stole them all!

The ongoing saga with the Perseids is an thorn in my side at the moment, on the third attempt last night my aunt acted as my […]
August 11, 2009

The Mighty Perseids, a snake, bats and a cockroach

Fourteen Years ago I was lucky enough to view the Perseid meteor shower from an amazing location, and one that is very dear to me. It […]
July 11, 2009

First image of Jupiter – Galileo:three old friends

Gianluca has taken the first image of Jupiter, which has now disappeared behin a tree for 40 mins, so in the meantime its time to observe […]
July 11, 2009

Galileo, Jupiter and Neptune: three old friends Part 2

Galileo’s observations of Jupiter and Neptune, Galileo missed the opportunity to discover Neptune, which just happens to be my favourite planet. This year there is a […]
July 11, 2009

Galileo, Jupiter and Neptune: three old friends

Some of you who receive the IYA 2009 Newsletter will know that this evening a very special event is taking place. It is an event provided […]
July 5, 2009

Cosmic Packman

Still hunting through archives and building a new database of peculiar galaxies for the paper we are working on, and whilst doing so came across Packman. […]
July 3, 2009

Is it a Bird? Is it a Plane? No… Its a Cosmic Moustache!!!

The school term here in the UK is beginning to wrap up and teachers, and science educators are getting ready to wind down for the holidays. […]