Tonight (early hours, the dark before dawn 12th August) should be the best time for watching the annual Perseid meteor shower. Well, it’s 1am now and raining steadily with complete cloud cover, so there’s no chance of seeing anything.
I’d like to know how far either side of the 12th you might get a chance [...]
I was supposed to go camping in Somerset (near where life began for me) this weekend but it was cancelled due to forecast bad weather. It was a lovely starry night last night and I suspected the forecast might be wrong so I decided to go camping anyway and slept in the tent in the [...]
I’ve been interested in the night sky for as long as I can remember. I used to be allowed to stay up to see the sky at night and very often gaze at the stars and the moon.
It’s all in predictable cycles but it’s too easy to miss events like eclipses because they happen at [...]
