Any idea of the fate of his telescope/observatory, presumably in his back garden?  

From The Economist: "We're talking about tiny bubbles of very briny water on a planet that has a very thin atmosphere whose surface is blasted with ra...

Wow. Cool. Interesting inverse 'J' shape in Mercury's transit. I wasn't expecting that.

You're not wrong, Tej. Apparently they've suspected the presence of liquid water for some time, but they didn't know what caused those seasonally-alte...

"Well, you see, officer, there were these two objects in the sky, and..." "Breath in here please, sir. Nice long breathe..."

It just occurred to me: I've never seen Mercury. I've had a couple of attempts at looking for it but it's never been sufficiently above the setting or...

I've had a trawl through the auction site and there is very little there to excite any astronomers, sadly. There's lots of silverware, some paintings,...

“Peach of a Moon” That's brilliant! Love it! I'm only on a BlackBerry at the moment - does the pic click through to a high-res we can use in the vide...

Here’s another image sent in by Ted Teece – a composite view of the eclipse taken from his garden… great stuff. Delighted to have a new name to add to...

Wow! Great story! Many thanks to Steve for coming back to us about this.

Thanks for that, Mike. It's certainly true that there's less dust up here than you guys had - though for once I think that played in your favour!

Some great images there, Mike. Brian, I can't believe what bad luck you had. We even had great conditions in Scotland - well, great viewing conditions...

Wow. Just looked up Recife on Google. It's only about 8 degrees south of the equator. Are you able to see the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds or is ...