The astronomy blogosphere
As usual, the holidays have been (and still are) busy. This, along with my inability to think of anything original, has meant that I haven't posted much recently. To take you through new year, here is a short round-up of what has been happening elsewhere on t'Internet.
Recently the weather seems to have been a bit poor for observing. This is quite normal in the UK, but it is most annoying now that we have long dark nights in the northern hemisphere. Christmas morning mist has been stopping Megan (UK) seeing the Lovell Telescope, so she made do with scanning in some old photos instead. Cloud has put Dave P (UK) in the doldrums while James (Ireland) has managed to get a couple of clear cold nights. I bet they weren't as cold as Tom (New England) is getting at the moment; he has been fitting out his new Sky Shack (think of a shed on a sledge) with a heater to keep him warm in the deep snow. It seems to be working a treat.
When the weather allowed, this month has seen lots of solar system observing from both hemispheres. Mars is getting smaller again, but that hasn't stopped people getting views of the major features. Venus has also been giving a good show as it overtakes the Earth on the inside and becomes a larger slim cresent. Saturn has also started to become sociable by rising earlier. This has allowed Rob (Florida) to get a nice shot of it.
Nearer to home, the Moon has been providing a good target for all. Ian (Australia) has a lunar mosaic, Math (Belgium) has a nice video trip across the Moon and Peter (New York City) has a great record of a night observing craters on the Moon. Perhaps he should enter it in Ian's competition (judge's
decision is final!) to find the best sky watching experience. Mind you, I would suggest Aditi's (India) experience of the night sky during a powercut as a contender too.
In other news, a small meteroid was caught on camera hitting the Moon, Stardust will be returning on 15th January and Uranus has gained two new rings (see Phil P or Tom). I still haven't been able to decipher that anagram yet.
Finally, Dave P has been encouraging the return of sketching (I've made you the "and finally" again Dave ;-) ) and Peter has taken up the challenge with some great sketches of the Moon. It would be nice to see more in the new year. Now, if only it wasn't foggy outside...
Comments: The astronomy blogosphere
That's a pretty good roundup of a few of the astronomy blogs. Based on your post, I have found and added four more space blogs to the Space Blogroll; we are now up to 84 space-related blogs on the blogroll (including yourself). If you want the Javascript necessary to display the Space Blogroll on your own blog, you can find it here.
Posted by Ed Minchau on Thursday 29th Dec 2005 (20:35 UTC)
Two "and finally" spots in one year -- I'm well chuffed! ;)
And, just to make life all the more miserable (for "not really miserable but I'll be a grumpy old man and have a moan anyway" values of miserable), the current weather is even mucking up my weather watching. How's that for irony?
Posted by Dave Pearson on Thursday 29th Dec 2005 (22:12 UTC)
It was rather remiss of me to neglect Kaustav's (London) images of Saturn in the round-up above. I've also added Kaustav to the list of blogs at the side.
Posted by Stuart on Friday 30th Dec 2005 (14:53 UTC)
...and boyruageek (location?) has more images of Saturn.
Posted by Stuart on Friday 30th Dec 2005 (16:16 UTC)
Very interesting article. Thanks for putting it
Posted by cl on Thursday 29th Oct 2009 (02:49 UTC)