This time last week I knew that the week ahead might look a bit different than I am used to, but I didn’t realise it would end up with me being interviewed in the Times and on Radio 4 and being broadcast on German radio too. We published a scientific paper that’s been in the …
Category Archives: experiments
Bode’s Galaxy
Another year has flown by with not as much time for astronomy and astrophotography as I’d like. Light pollution is terrible from my observing location in East London, so only the brightest deep sky objects are really suitable targets for me (at least until I get a decent filter, or go for narrowband imaging £££). …
Astrophotography – M31 – Andromeda
I’m getting back into astronomy after a very long hiatus. I really want to do some astrophotography, something I didn’t really achieve before. My previous attempts at imaging the sky though a telescope were with a self-guided Az-El mount crap-scope and a self-made 110 film camera. The results were underwhelming to say the least. I’ve …
Hackaday
An older project of mine from my other website has made it to Hackaday. Some interesting comments on the post there, but lots of people overplaying the dangers of mercury.
Poor Mickey
Sometimes when you’re looking around for something to scan in your new-ish CT scanner the answer just lands in your lap. I’ve been doing #xraymyadvent again this year, but thought I’d test out the new scanner with an item more in keeping with the scanner’s intended use. Searching around the lab I found no obvious …