Category Archives: General

Mar
31
2009

Earth Hour update

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 [...]

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Mar
26
2009

Earth Hour 28th March 8.30pm – 9.30pm

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 [...]

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Jan
04
2009

Happy Perihelion!

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 [...]

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Dec
31
2008

Happy New Year!

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 [...]

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Nov
05
2008

Scribd Astronomy

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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Nov
01
2008

Alaska Aurorae from home

Caught a tweet from Will Gator’s twitter feed a couple of days ago which led me to this post and The Aurora Live web cam provided by the NiCT (National Institute of Information Communications Technology).
I’ve had it loaded in a tab in my browser for a few days now and I’ve seen some great Aurora pictures; you can access a selection [...]

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Oct
24
2008

Webcam video of the launch of Falcon-1

Just catching up on some blog reading and found this great Webcam video of the launch of Falcon-1 thanks to Bad Astronomer blog.
Until the next post… Clear Skies!
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Oct
22
2008

Housekeeping: Blog subscribers -> New Feed

Just realised that I’ve not been using my blog feed through feedburner.com correctly <blush>.  Anyway I’ve got it setup how it should be now so if you want you can subscribe using this link or the one to the top right of the blog with the  sign.
Until the next post… Clear Skies!
Edit: I’ve installed FeedSmith, [...]

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Oct
07
2008

Twitter

Been using twitter for a couple of months now.  At first I couldn’t get into it but after I spent some time finding people to follow I realised what a useful tool it is.  There’s a lot of people out there with astronomy (and astro related) interests tweeting away. 
So, for all you readers new to Twitter, what’s it [...]

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Sep
30
2008

Jules Verne re-entry video

I guess most of you will have seen this by now but I’ve put the link here so I can find it again.
Until the next post… Clear Skies!
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