In another life I was a particle physicist, or rather I become an engineer involved in the ATLAS detector at the LHC Cern. Things change, projects carry on and I quit to blow things up with big lasers. One of the primary stated aims of the LHC is to find the Higgs particle before any …
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A day in the life…
of a semi-employed physicist. 6:40 am – Wake up, locate glasses and laptop, check email from bed. No job offers have appeared overnight. 7:20 am – Head downstairs to make tea, start process of becoming less human. Watch BBC news, wonder about the standard of science reporting on TV. 8:00 am – Head to work …
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: …
Comet McNaught in the Daganeese sky
Comet McNaught (C/2006 P1) is currently visible in the low sky just after sunset – look in the direction of the setting sun about 5 minutes after the top of the sun clears the horizon. Comet McNaught caught between two houses. Taken with Tamron 70-300 mm lens at 300 mm on a Nikon D50. 1/4 …