Sadly, i cant join you, mike as so many damn trains are not running today making my journey too long from Kingston (cricket training) and missing the ...

They're back!!! This from the BAA... The upper atmospheric conditions that gave rise to the display of stratospheric clouds at the beginning of Febru...

Tej, you're on the list for this evening!

A feature to watch out for is comet Catalina joining the queue on Kemble’s Cascade which is a striking line of stars at which one end lies a cluster, ...

Am in Whitstable at the moment, Tej... but heading back to London soon. I'll try to pop out to Blackheath if I can... not sure I can bring much equipm...

btw isnt the detection of two black holes colliding big news in and of itself?! We should be able to get useful new secrets from that event, I imagin...

A quite incredible achievement. I have to admit that I was sceptical that gravitational waves (if indeed they existed) would ever be detected on Earth...

I was trying to see whether there was a contributor up here on the hill but it appears not. It would interesting to know how/if the climate up here i...

why are these clouds only seen before dusk or after sunrise You need reflected sunlight for them to be visible. As the clouds are so high (12-15 mile...

Is that an eensie-weensie spider in the top right? :) Should have cropped that out, shouldn't I! No, it's a twig from an overhanging tree.

Tried to see if I could see any from Greenwich Park last night, but no luck. Still, it was a stunning sunset: Sunset from West-side of Greenwich Pa...

Hi Malcolm, I'm sure we can arrange for the aerial tuning unit to be brought to the meeting on Thursday. I'll let you know. Please bring along any e...

It also sounds a lot nicer than ‘nacreous’ Not a very pleasant word, is it? So, I looked up the origin of the word, and it was first used in the 183...

Sunset this evening is 16:50, with civil twilight (dusk) ending at 17:26.

The BBC have put a page up containing images from yesterday evening: