Herstmonceux Astronomy Festival 2009

This was my first visit to Herstmonceux on the south coast near Hastings. I had heard so much about it and remember seeing the adverts for it last year, but I was still unsure if I wanted to drive for two and a half hours to get to the site, but I’m glad I made

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Bought AE Pro Pier

Last week I bidded on an Astro Engineering Pro Pier on eBay, luckily at the last minute I won the auction. I do find that these kinds of pier don’t appear that regularly on the 2nd hand market, as most people are using them, so I’m glad I got it. The only problem was that

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Want to Buy an SPC900 Webcam. But Where?

Exactly. It seems to me that Philips have stopped producing our beloved SPC900 Webcams. Amazon, Play and Pixmania used to stock them online, but no longer do. So what now? I suppose you could always look on eBay. Does this mean that the price of second hand SPC900 Webcams will increase as they become harder

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Starmen TV Programme on BBC4

Did you see the “Starmen” programme on the BBC? What a great astronomy programme, so good I had to watch it twice. It was about us amateur astronomers and how important we are to keeping an eye on what is going on in the sky. I think my favourite part was actually seeing everyone’s astronomy kit, as

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Rainbow Spotting

During heavy rainfall and Sun at the same time on Friday 22nd August 2008, at around 6pm, I looked around the sky for a rainbow, and there it was at the back of my house, with more bands of colour than I can remember ever seeing. “A supernumerary rainbow is an infrequent phenomenon, consisting of

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National Space Centre Visit

My family and I visited the National Space Centre at Leicester in August 2008. I decided to go once I found the venue on the Tesco Clubcard site, so if you are a Tesco customer, then I recommend trading in some of your Clubcard points and save some money on entrance (if the Space Centre

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My Whipple Museum Visit

Whilst having a day off in Cambridge I decided to visit the Whipple Museum. It took a few minutes to find the entrance behind a wooden door from the street and then up a flight of stairs, but it’s worth hunting the museum down, admission is free. The Whipple Museum opens up Monday – Friday

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Meade DSI Pro Mono Sold

I had my Meade DSI (Deep Sky Imager) up for sale. It was the DSI Mono Pro I edition. It was complete and boxed as new. I listed it on eBay for £225 or Best Offer, and got £200 for it, although eBay and PayPal took about £15 in fees for it. It was a great imager

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The Hedgehog is Out

This is for anyone who read my previous post about my friendly hedgehog who used to come and see me in the garden whilst I was using my telescope. Well over the winter the hedgehog ended up making a nest near a fence post, made up of leaves, moss and twigs. Today whilst out cutting

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Astronomy Blog on New Server

Apologies to anyone who visited in the last hour (between 2.30pm – 3.30pm) and got a blank white page.  I moved the astronomy blog from a shared hosting account to a new web server.  Hopefully everything should be fully working as usual, if not, then there may be the odd bug to iron out.