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Lunar Conjunction Category: Astronomy Photos jupiter lunar conjunction venus
Last night, the three brightest objects in the night sky converged, producing a triple-conjunction. I managed to get a half decent view between spells of cloud from my flat window... So in these images you have the Moon, with Venus just to the bottom right and then just a bit higher and to the...

Last Week In pictures Category: General Me Political observatory observing sunset
My week started off with my Monday evening astronomy class at the botanical gardens... we actually got to go observing! They have a few of the trees there lit up for Christmas, looks quite nice and its not too light polluting: On Tuesday I took a quick trip out to the University Observatory to fi...

Night of a thousand telescopes! Category: Astronomy observing
The Largest Astronomy Lesson in the World EVER! This event is aimed at being the biggest star party ever and to promote the start of the International Year of Astronomy. So if you have a telescope and fancy taking party get over to www.starlearner.com and register. The event is to take place over th...

Anberlin Gig Category: Music anberlin data select party
Last night I got to see one of my favourite bands, [Anberlin], at the [Birmingham Barfly]. They were supported by Data Select Party and Furthest Drive Home. Data Select Party were really good and I think I will have to buy their CD - I probably should have last night but I wasn't really thinking whe...

University of Birmingham Lions in action Category: Football uni university of birmingham
Last Saturday I got the chance to go down and watch the [University of Birmingham Lions] in action - this is the University's American football team. I've been meaning to go down and watch them play for a number of years now but never managed it. Well I decided that this year would be different and ...

Emulators in Ubuntu Category: Computing
I love playing games. I also love playing around with linux... so what better than playing around with old games by getting them to work on Ubuntu? How about instead of just getting PC games working we try and get old console games working? Even better. Shame that lots of people have already been do...

Vale Fireworks 2008 Category: Photos fireworks uni university of birmingham
I've finally gotten around to sorting through the photos I took at this years University of Birmingham Vale Fireworks. This is a really nice free event that takes place every year in the student village around the Vale (the lake). Its always great fun and has a fun atmosphere, I've been to way too m...

University of Birmingham Campus Photos Category: Astronomy General Me Photos clocktower moon uni university of birmingham
I took a couple of photos of the University campus over the last couple of days, its been pretty gorgeous.... tree and joe (the clocktower).. the moon, bird and joe... joe and the moon...

Planets at the University Observatory Category: Astronomy jupiter neptune
Whilst I was testing out the setup (for spectroscopy) at the University of Birmingham observatory last week I got a few minutes to point the telescope at Jupiter. Now the problem with Jupiter with a large and very sensitive telescope is that it is rather bright, but I'm pleased to say that you can n...

DS9 in Ubuntu Category: Astronomy research
One of my most used tasks in my daily life as an astronomer is [DS9], yes it has a geeky name, but its a darn solid piece of software. I recently decided that I wanted to use it on my Ubuntu machine at home (I quite often just use it over the network from my wok machine) and I have to say I was plea...

Sticky Tape generates X-rays Category: Astronomy weird
This sounds really weird but it also appears to be correct. Researchers at the University of California have reported in Nature today that by opening a reel of tape in a vacuum they are able to take an x-ray image of a finger. But how? It appear that the radiation is released when tape is ripped ...

Sunset over the University Category: Photos
Back last Thursday we had a glorious sunset over the the campus here at the University of Birmingham, I tried to capture it but it was a lot more spectacular in person......

Living in the Sun's atmosphere Category: Astronomy Astrosoc
Last night we had a rather fascinating talk here at the University of Birmingham by Dr Lucie Green (of the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL) all about the Sun. She described in great detail how we have more questions about the Sun than answers and showed some quite marvellous images of the larg...

The Moon from my flat Category: Astronomy moon
I'm still not quite sure about living in a high rise... but to be honest it does offer some great views of the landscape......

Installing Xbox Media Center on Ubuntu Category: Computing
I've wanted to be able to control my media collection on my Xbox 360 for a while and I wasn't sure of a good way of doing this without M$ Windows... but now I've come across: http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-xbmc-on-ubuntu-8.04 - seems to work well.......