Andy Sawers
Andy Sawers
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RE: Pluto- New Horizon

A Plutonian eclipse? We missed that.....

7 years ago
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RE: Pluto- New Horizon

Paw marks? Could be!

7 years ago
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RE: Jupiter / Venus Conjunction

I was looking right at you, Tej, and tried to say hello, but you were busy dismantling your 'scope while talking to someone. We didn't hang around for...

7 years ago
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RE: Jupiter / Venus Conjunction

I still cannot believe that as we left the house, Jupiter and Venus were visible. As we parked the car, Jupiter and Venus were visible. As we walked t...

7 years ago
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RE: Summer Solstice Sun Day

One advantage of the failure of the mount was that it gave the perfect excuse for a quick look through the Coronado every few minutes as we manually r...

7 years ago
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RE: Trip to the University of London Observatory

I think I can claim to have seen further! You obviously went to Specsavers. It was an interesting point, though - that while we're well used to talki...

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RE: Trip to the University of London Observatory

One of many things that struck me about the trip was Francisco talking about the discovery of the supernova. As it's 11 million light years away, he s...

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RE: Pluto- New Horizon

This is pretty cool. Nasa has developed a web tool that allows you to see how bright it is on Pluto at noon. You punch in your location and then the t...

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RE: Rosetta Target Double Comet

Of course, the reason Philae woke up is it's so keen to find out who's going to win the IAU 'Name an exosystem' competition that Christina's been orga...

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RE: Rosetta Target Double Comet

It's frankly astonishing. It's operating with 24 watts - about the strength of a dull lightbulb - in -35C and it's around 300 million km away. Yes, I...

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RE: The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia, data and graphs

Bill, that's hours of fun! Cool! And just a sliver of a prospect of a Nobel Prize as well ;) !!! Thanks for this!

7 years ago
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