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Wast Hills Telescope Movie #2 Category: Astronomy Photos Astrosoc observatory observing wast hills
Another movie of the telescope at Wast Hills, actually these pics were taken during the most recent night we had out there which produced some nice pics (see [here]), the first one was only over a short period of time where as this video covers all the way from just before sunset to just after sunri...

Wast Hills Telescope Movie Category: Astronomy General Me
Whilst observing the other week I grabbed some images taken by the webcams out at Wast Hills with the intention of putting together a short animation of the telescope observing. I'm pleased to say that it came out quite well (though some work could be done - i.e. taking a longer dataset and move rap...

Clear Skies and nebulae Category: Astronomy Photos Political Astrosoc observatory observing university of birmingham
On Tuesday I took Astrosoc out to the University of Birmingham Observatory at Wast Hills for a BBQ (pictures from the social side later) and a night of observing. It was a fantastic night with probably the most clear skies I've ever seen at Wast Hills, for the visual observers they claim to have had...

Barcelona 2009 Category: Photos barcelona holiday me me and lizzie
Last week we took a week off to explore fantastic Barcelona... I'll get round to putting together a proper post about this later in the week (after [Download]..) but for now here are some pictures that can be found on my flickr account (basically this is a test to see how pictobrowser works):...

Is Shedir Variable? Category: Astronomy
Before the age of modern photographic and CCD observations α Cassiopeiae was labelled as a variable star, though this variability has not been seen with modern instrumentation. We present an analysis of 3 years of high precision space-based photometric measurements of the suspected variable star α...

Galaxies and Nebulae... Category: Astronomy Photos Astrosoc observatory observing wast hills
.. another imaging session at Wast Hills. We have been rather lucky with the weather as of late (3 planned observing nights in a row have been rather clear!) and we managed to do some imaging again last Saturday and here are the results... M101 that fantastic Pinwheel Galaxy (10x30s exposures in u,...

I'm a doctor of Astrophysics! Category: General Me
I think the title says most of this, well I'm slightly lying since I really shouldn't call myself a Dr until I have made the minor corrections to my thesis / done the awards ceremony... but effectively I'm a doctor of astrophysics after passing my viva on my thesis entitled "From planets to gal...

Astrosoc: Meade DSI Pro II first light Category: Astronomy Photos Astrosoc observing
A while back now (6th December 2008) Astrosoc (well me, Rich and Joe) went observing on the Poynting roof to try out the Meade DSI Pro II in combination with the 10" Newtonian reflector that Astrosoc own. In short the observing conditions were fantastic but we had quite a few problems setting u...

Even more images from Wast Hills Category: Astronomy Photos observatory observing wast hills
I've finally gotten around to finish off the processing of the less interesting observations we took at Wast Hills back on the 4th April. Most of the images here aren't colour but some are quite striking and we will eventually go back and take colour images of them. If you haven't already read - the...

More Observing at Wast Hills Category: Astronomy Photos Astrosoc imaging observatory observing wast hills
Last Sat, like the other week (see [here]), took Birmingham Astronomical Society out to the University of Birmingham Observatory. It was again a lovely clear night - far from what was predicted earlier in the week. We were able to learn from the observing of earlier in the month and I'm rather plea...

Observing at Wast Hills Category: Astronomy Astrosoc observatory university of birmingham
The other week I took Birmingham Astronomical Society out to the University of Birmingham Observatory. It was a lovely clear night and the first chance I've had in a number of years for a good session of observing. Its the first time I've tried successfully to use the new Meade telescope for astrono...

Samsung U600 T9 text input bug Category: Tech phone
My otherhalf has a Samsung U600 and she has recently been having a few problems when she goes to write a text, it basically freezes when she hits space after the first word. It seemed to come and go and last weekend it just got worse. A bit of googling can go a long way but most of the "fixes...

Astrosoc win best event award! Category: Astronomy General Me Astrosoc
The University of Birmingham Astronomical Society won the best event at the University of Birmingham Guild Awards 2009. Not a bad feat really. We won for our "Space Day" event back in October which saw us turn the Physics department into an astronomy play ground for the day. Since I was on...

David Levy's Visit Category: Astronomy
The other week David Levy came over to the UK to give a few talks.. including a visit to UoB AS... his write up of his visit can be found here - it portrays Birmingham in a good light, which is always good (we obviously only showed him the nice bits!)...

National Science and Engineering Week Events Category:
We have a couple of upcoming events here at the University of Birmingham that you might be interested in. Both events are FREE, suitable for all ages and all are welcome. Monday 9th March - "Poetry of the Night: A marvellous union between science and literature" by David H. Levy On Octob...