Posts Tagged ‘astronomy’

Transit of Venus

Written By: - Date published: 10:33 am, June 6th, 2012 - 7 comments

The transit of Venus is in progress. If cloud cover allows you a view it’s a pretty special astronomical event…

It’s full of stars

Written By: - Date published: 9:32 am, October 4th, 2009 - 11 comments

Maybe it would be good for my blood pressure to try not to be grumpy about politics on Sundays. So here is a site I found last week which both rekindled my sense of wonder, and re-calibrated my sense of perspective. The site displays a full 360 degree spherical image of the night sky as seen […]