Wentworth Village Day, 2025
0Yesterday was one of our “Solar Sunday” outreach events – this one was the Wentworth Village Gala. Wentworth is a local village which is quite historic – think...
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Antonio Padilla!
Today we hosted Numberphile’s Tony Padilla at MSAS. A superb speaker and very engaging. He talked about “Fantastic Numbers and Where to find them” – the title of...
Another Barbeque, another year.
This yearly tradition has become somewhat of an annual event (joke) and we now celebrate the he Solstice up at the Hoober Observatory each year. It’s a fairly...
A Solar Sunday
0Just after that huge aurora had kicked our lily white arses, we had a Solar Sunday at the observatory. I managed to see the sunspot group responsible for...
Celebrations & Healing
1On Saturday we celebrated the 45th Anniversary of my astronomy society. Amazingly I’ve been a member for almost 40 of those years now. We had a barbecue and...
100 miles done. 100 miles started.
0Last month I rode 100 miles for Prostate Cancer UK with sponsorship from various friends. This month I’m doing the same but for Mexborough and Swinton Astronomy Society...
Open at last!
0We opened the MSAS Observatory earlier. The mayor and our local MP came down, as well as the local papers. We had Paul Money and Dr Allan Chapman...
The Oxford Trip
0The Oxford trip was yesterday; meeting up with Dr Allan Chapman to go and the Radcliffe Observatory and then to the Museum of the History of Science. After...
Yet more observatory works
0On Saturday afternoon I was messaged on Facebook that I was needed rather urgently at the observatory. The guys had been sliding a new I beam into the...