A light switch on a street light! Fantastic idea! Absolutely... superb idea. There are, of course, other methods (not that I endorse this at all, of...

Kent have their streetlight locations nicely marked out on a zoomable google map Great find, Tej... that's really useful. But safety has to come ...

Hi, Yes, you probably did speak to Nick... he was one of our volunteers at the ROG yesterday evening. If you are already an RMG member, it will cost...

What sort of age would you say it is, Mike? Difficult to know... but I'd guess late 19th or early 20th century... almost certainly over 100 years old...

Lovely... a Cooke refractor... always thought they looked like "proper" telescopes. Beautiful engineering.

Yes, it's cancelled. We can't observe with winds speeds as high as this... everything we try to view will be shaking around all over the place. It's j...

So basically, what you’re saying is, it’s not very easy to see At 0.01 arseconds! No :) Neptune is 2.3 arcseconds... Pluto is 0.1... so this is 10 t...

So I’m wondering, what’s the angular diameter of an object the size of ‘Land’s End to John O’Groats’ when it’s 15.5 billion kilometres/103AU away Tin...

It’s the John Lewis ad (now). Oh, no. Cue lots of kids getting scopes for Christmas and wondering why they can't zoom in on the Moon. That must be s...

It looks like there's another "window" on the South Downs... might be the Queen Elizabeth Country Park, where I know that HantsAstro do their observin...

Interesting stuff, indeed. Those who suffered so many cloudy skies on the Great Equatorial Viewing events last season will surely appreciate the incr...

Great stuff, Tej. Those craters near the terminator look amazing. I was looking out at this Moon myself on Saturday evening, but there was so much m...

Well... if you don't understand the paper... the good news is that we've got a lecture coming up on the subject of Neutrinos in January! See Always...

alien squeegee merchants jumping in and ‘cleaning’ the Kepler telescope These guys are clearly charlatans. Anyone who knows anything about cleaning...