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A Deep 150 MHz GMRT Survey in Eridanus Category: Astronomy 150MHz GMRT radio survey
My second paper has been published . This one is looking at low frequency source counts with the GMRT. It is titled "A deep 150 MHz Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope survey in Eridanus". If anyone fancies reading it, it can be found on [astroph]. It is to be published in Monthly Notices of t...

FAS Convention next Sat! Category: Astronomy
Next Saturday is the 2008 Federation of Astronomical Societies convention. It is to take place the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge and promises to be an action packed fun-filled day. For more take a look at www.fedastro.org.uk...

Security in Ubuntu Category: Computing
I'm a Ubuntu user - yep that's a type of Linux. I love it and I find it so much more natural than M$ Windows (and of the versions, though I do have time for XP as I have spent a lot of time using that - mostly games though). Anyway... lots of people are going over to using Linux and I keep urging pe...

A geeks way of travelling... Category: Random Stuff
For me that means using the net to book hotels, flights, trains and getting maps off city council websites - but be cautious the one I got of Prague was missing the new tube stations... - very useful since our hostel was next to one of the newly built ones. Anyway, for some travelling is a whole l...

Tumblr pages... Category: Astronomy Computing General Me Random Stuff Site Stuff
I've been trying out Tumblr as a means of bloging and I like it - I think I might attempt to maintain an astronomy blog over on their system for a while and see what happens... if you want to take a look at my fledgling new blog see: starrydude.tumblr.com....

University of Birmingham Space Day! Category: Astronomy
Forty two. That was the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything proposed by Deep Thought in Douglas Adams' book the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. But how much of the ultimate answer does the Universe actually contribute? Whilst astronomers at the University of Birmingham are likely unable t...

View from my flat Category: Photos
Its a dank day here in Birmingham and this morning we could see a nice misty scene.....

A short stay in France Category: General Me Photos
Over the last few days of had a great time in the Loire Valley region of France. The weather was Sunny and the evening skies were fabulous (I've never seen the Milky way looking so wondrous, I reckon this was the first time I've seen the gas clouds). We flew into Poitiers since there is a cheap fli...

DOOFAAS Category: Astronomy
DOOFAAS stands for Dumb Or Overly Forced Astronomical Acronyms Site. A friend of mine pointed me in the direction of this site the other day, very funny and actually quite useful when you want to figure out what the hell some of these acronyms mean... acronyms are the scourge of modern astronomy (we...

Europe 2008: Venice Category: General Me europe travels
I've just about gotten around to start thinking about my travels around Europe this summer, I'm not sure if I will actually get around to blogging about it all... but lets start, Venice. I wrote this on the train between Venice and Rome. Venice is just different. I don't think you can really make a...

Science in Birmingham... Category: Astronomy General Me
I wrote into the Birmingham (Evening) Mail the otherday in response to a comment made about the lack of adult science activities in Birmingham. It actually got in to the Mail yesterday, . Anyway, I'm not sure I should post a copy of it here, but I'm going to... take a read if you want (though I exp...

Home sweet, home... Category: Political Random Stuff
... is not in Alabama! I'm from Birmingham in England (the original Birmingham!) but it seems our city council are destined to think we are actually in Birmingham, Alabama.... [Chiefs admit Brum skyline mix-up ]. Bloody idiots. Anyone who has lived in Birmingham for a few years would easily be able...

Bash rename Category: Computing
This is one more for myself than anyone else as I keep forgetting how todo it.... but if anyone is interested. I normally don't use bash - I'm not entirely sure why I don't (if you don't know what bash is, then I wouldn't worry - its the Bourne Again Shell and is based on the Bourne shell, sh, the o...

Partial Solar Eclipse Category: Astronomy Astrosoc eclipse solar
On Friday there was a partial solar eclipse over the UK - suprisingly we actually managed to observe it - though the clouds did their best to stop us. We even got onto the television....(ITV Central). Lunchtime: Tea-time:...

NASA Images Category: Astronomy
Browse a massive collection of images taken of our Universe by NASA missions - [www.nasaimages.org]. The goal of NASA Images is to increase our understanding of the earth, our solar system and the universe beyond in order to benefit humanity....