Andy Sawers
Andy Sawers
@andy-sawers
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Joined: Jun 19, 2020
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RE: Clear Skies!...So whats on sky?

here is the result. Cool! Care to send a copy to me for the video?

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RE: MARCH - Historical Astronomy Dates

Frederick William Herschel discovered a new planet, Uranus Thereby doubling the size of the solar system, from 9.5AU to 19AU. Not a bad day's work!

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RE: National Geographic's top places for dark skies

You got image 3 and 2 out of image 1??? Wow!!! Rupert, could I ask you to send those to me please and I'll figure out a way of incorporating them int...

6 years ago
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RE: Johannes Kepler - Almost Isaac Newton

Well, there's a coincidence!! Two of the contestants on tonight's Mastermind had as their specialist subjects (i) Johannes Kepler and (ii) Isaac Newto...

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RE: ISS seen from Galloway

Thanks for that, Mike. I eventually remembered that there's a 'show satellites' option on Stellarium, too, though the dataset on the mobile app seems ...

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RE: Johannes Kepler - Almost Isaac Newton

how did Kepler know Mars orbital period in the first place A bit of brilliance on Copernicus's part, I believe. Imagine that a planet is at oppositi...

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RE: Apollo fire

Just spotted an error on that BBC video, saying that the Apollo 11 moon landing was 18 months after the Apollo 1 fire – an error that doesn’t, however...

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RE: Johannes Kepler - Almost Isaac Newton

Brexit will be a piece of cake! This explains all.

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RE: Johannes Kepler - Almost Isaac Newton

You're quite right about the 30-years war, Tej. It didn't actually break out until around 1618, when he was in his late-40s. There was, however, a ve...

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