Ah well... what can you do... as it turns out, it was a rotten decision to cancel :( In my defence, none of the weather forecasts at 8am this morning...

FYI, this has been a very tricky call... but we've decided to CANCEL our solar viewing event planned for today (Saturday 12 July). The forecast is su...

Remember, the site was selected so that there should be no magnetic disturbance from iron in the neighbourhood, which was the problem after the South ...

Thanks to Andy for writing a report of this event. The report is now online:

Well, as if to prove my point about being able to view noctilucent clouds in London, I stumbled across the following video this morning, which is a ti...

Well, after writing that I couldn't find any aerial photographs of Greenwich Park which picture the Christie Enclosure, I became aware of the "Britain...

Maybe we need a range of Flamsteed baseball hats The day will never come when you see me wearing a baseball hat! As Andy says, Tilley hats are the o...

a new book by Nicholas Mee Let me know what this book is like, Brian. I enjoyed his last book on the "Higgs Force". Interesting, I bumped into Nich...

Well, it appears that the Zarkov Cloud Gun was at least partially successful! Despite the early forecast suggesting that we wouldn't see much of the...

Maybe these guys can help….. I suspect not... I think only this will help: Zarkov Cloud Gun. ;)

The threat of rain seems to have receded, at least during the daytime, today... so we will go ahead with our solar observing event at the ROG today (W...

A full report of the trip is now on this website:

Hi Christina, This is referring to a Filar Micrometer, used on large refractor telescopes, which allows measurements of the angle and distance betwee...

A report of our trip to CERN, with a couple of accompanying videos, is now online: