ESA - 20 member states, and they all have to give speeches.....

RMG has a session next week entitled Behind the Scenes of 'Ships, Clocks & Stars': Telescopes. "Get up-close and personal with some of the Museu...

The Drake equation for calculating the probable number of civilisations in our galaxy:

Cost of building a rover that can make oxygen out of the Martian atmosphere: £1.1 billion. Target date: 2020 Cost of building a southeast London exte...

The Flamsteed Twitter account reminded me that we had a great question at the members' solar viewing evening that, in short, we couldn't answer. Quest...

Courtesy of Mr Twitter and space.com: For you #space bibliophiles, a glimpse inside the childhood library of managing ed. @tariqjmalik… We had the 'G...

Sky and Telescope Interesting. I've seen that mag but not read it. I liked the only copy of Astronomy that I've been able to find (WH Smith @ Victori...

The Immortal Fire Within – The Life and Work of Edward Emerson Barnard – William Sheehan 1995. Another astronomical hero of mine… FYI there's a short...

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I've just read - or should that be 'red'? - that he owns 22 red telescopes...

I was there, at the solar viewing, in Regents Park, the day after we gathered at Blackheath Do you, Tej, or anyone else know if the guy in the Regents...

"weighting both galaxies simultaneously proved to be extremely challenging" I guess - and trying to fit them on either side of Libra didn't work out a...

A couple more NLC shots from my brother at 37,000 feet. Note Venus!

Great to see pics of some of the people who took part. Do you have any images of what they saw? This pic (and I hope the link works) of mine is not ex...