I started 2023 with some plans, but then life happened and some of the plans were disrupted. Let’s see where I got to. Walking Dagenham: My plan to walk every road in Dagenham. I had planned this would take about six months, if I walked at weekends and holidays. It soon became obvious to me …
Category Archives: science
Not the December Solstice
That’s tomorrow at 03:27 am.
Unblogged Vienna
September meant a trip to Vienna to present at the 10th International Conference on Computational Bioengineering. I was presenting in a sub-section of the conference set up as a memorial for Professor John Clement. The company was great, the food very good and the Ferris wheel was very high, and I didn’t catch covid. I’ll …
A better account of a comet
Another clear night saw me trying to capture the comet again. This time with a longer lens. The comet is getting higher in the sky, and today is the closest approach to Earth (so it might be a bit brighter). Still no progress on getting my telescope mount back from the repair place, so I’m …
“An imperfect account of a comet…”
to quote Caroline Herschel. There’s a buzz in the media over the rare green comet that’s whizzing past us right now. It’s fuelled in part by the colour (almost certainly not visible to the eye (especially from light polluted regions)), and in part by spectacular images from big telescopes. I like comets, and try to …