LookUP blog posts
Updated: 2010-06-30 11:43:00
Astronomy Blog You are : in Astronomy Blog archive LookUP blog posts An astronomy blog usually but not always based in the UK . Pondering questions such as What is in an exoplanet name LookUP blog posts Yesterday I made a minor change and added a feature to LookUP First , the change . I realised that the images I was using from Flickr included copyright images so I've limited the search to those with licenses that allow them to be included in the LookUP results . Unfortunately , that does reduce the number of images and removes quite a few of the nice astrophotography shots . If you have a Flickr account and astro photographs , please consider using a permissable license and using astrotags While getting my head around astrotags I remembered another project I created that made use of tags
A year already! I can hardly believe it. Here’s a video named aptly: 10 Cool Things Seen in the First Year of LRO. I think my top two picks are the Apollo landing sites and finding one of the Russian rovers. The video has very limited sound. Also You Tube was very slow earlier, hopefully [...]
A view of the ISS gliding across the night sky on 24 June 2010. Credit: WillGater.com The International Space Station (ISS) will be making some bright flyovers over the UK over the next week or so, providing the perfect entertainment for any of you waiting for a noctilucent cloud display to materialize. The ISS appears [...]
You want sparkles with that? The Hubble Space Telescope serves up a delicious picture of the nebula known as N11, complete with sparkly star clusters embedded in fluffy pink clouds of gas.
Me standing next to one of the LOFAR antennas. Credit: WillGater.com Today Sky at Night Magazine’s editor Graham, and I, visited the Chilbolton Observatory in Hampshire to see the UK’s contribution to the LOFAR project now entering its final stages of construction. LOFAR (the LOw Frequency ARray) is a radio telescope which will observe the [...]
Moonrise over Bristol 27 May 2010. [Click for full size] Credit: Will Gater Last night there was a lovely moonrise (image above) over Bristol. The conditions were relatively good for viewing it too, as there was only a small amount of low-level haze and not too much cloud around. It appears that wonderful orange/red colour [...]
A stunning noctilucent cloud display seen in the summer of 2009. Credit: Will Gater It’s approaching that time of year when the skies of the northern hemisphere are graced by an ethereal phenomenon known as noctilucent clouds (or NLCs). These high altitude clouds of ice crystals shine long after the Sun has set and are [...]