its an absolute joy capturing these ancient photons! Funniest scientific thing I've read all day, Tej! And thanks for the mini-astrophotography cours...

Actually, I think you've got a point, Tej. The Cern dark matter paper is much more caveated than the 'We've found gravity waves oh wait no it's just s...

weather forecast is lousy The curse of new equipment!!!

Good point. Reminds me of Ali Mozaffari's comment last week about how much money and how many jobs depend on the search for dark matter. Entire career...

We don't have a 'Nonsense' thread but at least this one has food, so I'll share this here. It's three years old so you may all have seen it but my dau...

Well, at least a pretty poor joke about cyanide yielded a much better Google search from Brian than I was able to muster! Looks like incredibly useful...

Scientists have found the beginnings of life-bearing chemistry at the centre of the galaxy. Iso-propyl cyanide has been detected in a star-forming clo...

Katie told me about this cake - which you'll love, Mike. It's got an equation on it. Okay, a very simple equation, but it shows you can have your cake...

an unusually relaxing afternoon reading a book Not this one, no?

Happy birthday, Mike!!

I hope you enjoy the society events, lecture talks, observation sessions, workshops etc as much as I have! And the jokes, Tej. Don't forget how much...

Hope these help? They look great, Brian. Thank you. I'll read those later today but they look like they're bang on target!

Just had a quick read of this but it looks very interesting. Thanks for spotting and posting, Brian. I noticed this line: "This is exactly what we wo...

10 Dark frames 30 Bias frames (excessive I know) no flats I cant wait to find out what that all means on my digital astrophotography course! ;) Tech...