April 4, 2009

100 Hours of Remote Observing

Wow, image after image is just breath taking, Terry has now joined us in the chatroom and we’ve already had the Eskimo Nebula, Saturn, M3, and […]
April 4, 2009

ooh and the Virtual Telescope is now starting up……

Gianluca is switching the hardware on and the VT is awaking from a deep sleep, the roof is opening and the VT is ready to observe!!! […]
April 4, 2009

Join the Virtual Telescope 100 Hrs Webcast now!

http://virtualtelescope.bellatrixobservatory.org/100harealtime.html Gianluca is webcasting live now from the Bellatrix Observatory in Italy, he really has some stunning images from the past couple of days, tune in […]
April 4, 2009

And now we have the Virtual Telescope LIVE!

I’ve just checked out Gianluca’s Virtual Telescope website, and he managed to make some movies today so here is a movie he made earlier in the […]
April 4, 2009

UNAWE Junior 100 Hours of Astronomy

So today of all days again I had no internet connection at the planetarium but I did three packed out shows and the 3D theatre show […]
April 4, 2009

Woohoo! Galaxy Zoo reaches 1 Million Classifications!!

This is rather cool, I’ve just seen the news from the 100 Hours site, and they’ve managed to reach their target of classifying one million galaxies […]
April 4, 2009

Good Morning Everyone! Its Day 2!!!

I feel like I’ve barely had any sleep, I’ve just looked out of the window and what a surprise, its raining. This will mean a drop […]
April 3, 2009

Snooze Time

Its time to get some shuteye I think before I set off again on the journey and a half to Harewood House from Manchester, I’m feeling […]
April 3, 2009

100 hrs of ExoPlanets!

Right now on the webcast, the astronomers from france are analysing data of exoplanets LIVE on the webcast, you can’t get better than that now for […]
April 3, 2009

GALEX

oooh, I can’t say enough how fantastic GALEX is as an instrument, I’m using this instrument at the moment to build a catalogue of Galaxies. A […]
April 3, 2009

Yorkshire Planetarium earlier today

So, the first show started at 1pm today and I was a little bit nervous as this was my first crack at presenting a show in […]
April 3, 2009

SOHO LIVE WEBCAST

One of my favourite instruments of all time, SOHO is online now with the live webcast, I have to say as an astronomer as well as […]