Here’s a beautiful little video I’m sure you’ll all appreciate. This video is based on a small portion of the audiobook version of Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot. This audiobook recording is especially delightful, if you’re fortunate enough to have a copy of it, because it was read by Sagan in his wonderous voice, not […]
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Every year I get a heap of emails from people asking me if I knew Mars is going to be big this year with the inevitable Powerpoint file full of BS attached. By now, I’ve been asked often enough I have half the details copy-pasted into the reply before I know what I am doing. […]
Whew. Now that I’m back and recovered from my trip to Parkes to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the moon landings. As we also had a decent size telescope to take with us (as well as my Galileoscope) we had to drive up, and so the eight of us took three cars and had a ROAD […]
…good thing for Jupiter that chicks dig scars. How long do you think it will be before someone twists this into a UFO story?
This weekend, I’ll be travelling up to Parkes with a group of friends from the Melbourne University Physics Student Society to check out the radio telescope and celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. In addition to that, we’re bringing some telescopes with us (including my very own Galileoscope) one of which […]
