Dark matter is that weird stuff that is supposed to make up about 80% of all matter in the universe. It is invisible, and pretty much non-interacting (you can’t see it, and you can’t detect it (easily) by other means). One way you might detect it is to take a very pure crystal and look …
Category Archives: Astronomy
Eclipse photos
So, I took eclipse photos on Saturday night, I filled a 1gig SD card – though at 6 meg per photo in RAW format , that’s quite easy to do. I was hoping to get enough decent images to animate them, showing the progression of the eclipse. Far too many were out of focus to …
Total Lunar Eclipse
From 8pm onwards tonight look up to the sky, and weather permitting you will see the first total Lunar eclipse visible from the UK since 2004 (but you’d not have seen that one, because it was cloudy). Key times for the eclipse * Moon enters penumbra: 2018 * Moon enters umbra: 2130 * Totality begins: …