The bolts for the pillar have finally arrived and have been set in place in the shuttering. I’ve also run in some external grade power cable and some cable ducting to hopefully minimise running wires.
Once I’ve got the concrete delivery arranged and then laid that’ll be the base finished.
Until the next post, Clear Skies…
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At last I’m starting to make some progress with my Home Observatory. I’ve got the foundations dug out, built the shuttering for the base and the block (that the pillar will connect to), and I’ve laid some hardcore; all with the help of my next door neighbour.
Here is a picture of the base with the [...]
I’m a little frustrated with the progress of my Astro Imaging project. My current (home made) set-up is a little temperamental and I’m not getting repeatable results; I’ve not got the budget at the moment to do anything about the situation but I’m saving-up and should have the money in a few months.
Common guidance in [...]
According to the Earth Hour website the Earth Hour event last Saturday night (28th March 09 0830-0930) “… was an incredible success,”. Whilst I find that encouraging news, albeit declared by themselves, I feel they may have done even better if their publicity efforts had reached further. I am plugged into a number of social networking sites, blog [...]
It’s Earth Hour this Saturday 28th March between 8.30pm-9.30pm – wherever you live on Earth.
On the back of it’s success in 2007 and 2008, Earth Hour 2009 aims to get 1 billion people switching off their lights with lots of famous landmarks joining in. All you have to do is switch off your lights at [...]
Caught a tweet from @mattjones yesterday pointing to a great post on his blog that shows you how to configure Stellarium to allow you to follow comet Lulin. Comets are unpredictable objects and so we can’t expect Stellarium to predict their course through the solar system; especially the one’s we’ve never seen before!
I’ve often wondered if Stellarium [...]
Now that Christmas and New Year is out of the way its time for another celebration; Happy Perihelion!; OK I’m getting carried away but it’s a good excuse to focus on a really interesting fact that in the Northern hemisphere we experience winter when the Earth is closest to the Sun in it’s elliptical orbit [...]
Just a quick post to wish all my readers a Happy New Year and all the best in your astronomical exploits in the International Year of Astronomy of 2009.
2009 promises to be a great year for astronomy. I have a number of astronomy projects lined up, some to start and some to complete; AstroImaging, Astronomy GCSE, Home [...]
In the UK Monday evening (1st December 2008) at about 17:15 Venus began to appeared from behind the crescent moon and end it’s occultation by The Moon. Cloud had significantly impaired my view of the start of the occultation and I foolishly gave up on the hope of being able to observe anything worth while. Driving to a nearby shopping centre [...]
A post over at ProBlogger led me to the Scribd site where you can search for books on a topic. Naturally I chose Astronomy and here’s a long list of documents I found. Some of the documents don’t seem that interesting but there looks to be a few gems in there.
I remember seeing the Scribd site a [...]
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