Andy Sawers
Andy Sawers
@andy-sawers
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Joined: Jun 19, 2020
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RE: Blackheath MOONday - Monday 26 January

Looking forward to lots of great new photographs for our opening video at the next Flamsteed meeting!

8 years ago
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RE: Visit to the RAS Library

Kicking myself silly for not having been able to attend this. This excellent report of the visit is the next best thing, however.

8 years ago
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RE: Gamma Ray Bursts and Extinctions

Wow! What a great find, Dave! A really interesting perspective. Maybe we need to add another element to the Drake equation: "Probability that a gamm...

8 years ago
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RE: Venus and Mercury

I'd bet on a simultaneous setting - the equivalent of putting all my roulette chips on '0'. Venus's setting right in the notch in the second clip is...

8 years ago
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RE: Royal Observatory Woolwich!

Christina, that's fantastic! I love the story on the next page of Sir James Clark Ross who, in 1833, sledged to the north magnetic pole and became the...

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RE: Royal Observatory Woolwich!

What on earth were the magnetic crusades? It sounds like an epic Swiftian battle between the Northsouthians and the Eastwestians - a hopelessly one-si...

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RE: 2014 astronomy year in review

OH BBC actually did do a video Year in Space for 2014: Brilliant find, Tej. I just caught the tail end of this programme last week. Glad you foun...

8 years ago
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RE: 2014 astronomy year in review

Thanks for the link, Tej - and Happy New Year to all Flamsteed Forum folk (the NY has started on the other side of the globe, of course ;) Highlight ...

8 years ago
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RE: Geminid Meteor Shower

So that’s my little rant. Sumitra, as a journalist and editor I have plenty of personal experience of judges who are fools, idiots and probably corrup...

8 years ago
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RE: Geminid Meteor Shower

Glorious photos, Tej and Sumitra! Sumitra, I'm still just astonished you didn't actually set fire to the windmill with that burning steel wool/egg w...

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