It is a much quieter second day for the Apollo astronauts today on our 50 year Apollo 11 timeline as the Command / Service / Lunar Modules stack…

This is the Apollo 11 timeline of the flight which was launched 50 years ago today. I will be posting each days events as it happened until the…

Join me for a family orientated event to showcase the outstanding achievement of the Apollo 11 lunar landings on the 20th of July for my 50th Anniversary Celebration…

Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin’s maternal grandmother had the surname Moon. Amongst other people gathered with Buzz’s wife Helen in their house on the day of the landing was his…

On the eve of the day before the mighty Saturn V launch that propelled, Neil, Buzz and Michael towards The Moon,  here’s another interesting fact about Apollo 11.…

On Tuesday the 16th of July there is a partial lunar eclipse. This takes place on the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Saturn V rocket which…

For me the summer months are always a relatively slack time for trying to do any form of astronomy. The night sky never gets properly dark at this…

My free monthly sky diary for July 2019 showing the events of the night sky visible from the UK is now available in a printable pdf version for…

On Tuesday the 25th of June I will be re-visiting Birmingham Astronomical Society to present to them: Why The Universe Doesn’t give a Fig About You. This talks…

My free monthly sky diary for June 2019 showing the events of the night sky visible from the UK is now available in a printable pdf version for…

I’m cream crackered! Not much sleep last night and working in the garden the last few days. (Me and manual labour aren’t the best of buddies). So I’m…

Every now and again something slips under your radar. Something so seemingly innocuous has a habit of biting you where it hurts. Let me explain. I’m always on…

I missed the launch of the Starlink Satellites. A little while after release into orbit the 60 satellites were visible as a string of bright lights moving across…

On Tuesday the 22nd of May I will be re-visiting my very good friends at Northants Amateur Astronomers to give another talk. Out of the Darkness: Pluto, New…

My latest audience-interactive presentation to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Lunar landing is nearing completion. It has been designed to follow on from my Space…

I am in the process of downloading and processing of Apollo mission images to add a some previously unseen images to my presentations for this 50th anniversary year…

On Monday the 6th of May, Bank Holiday Monday, an extremely thin crescent Moon should be visible very low down in the western sky just as the sky…

On Tuesday the 7th of May I will be making my third trip to Lincoln Astronomical Society. This time I will be telling them all about a hero…

My free monthly sky diary for May  2019 showing the events of the night sky visible from the UK is now available in a printable pdf version for…

Are you getting frustrated that no new Ultima Thule images or info from New Horizons have been released for ages? http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/UltimaThule-Encounter Me too!! However, it’s not all bad,…

A taster from the Apollo immersive full-dome planetarium show I am working on to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing. Have you booked your…

Well, that was a bit of a shock. There’s not much that freaks me out, being out in the dark alone while I’m enjoying my hobby. But this…

A new active region has moved onto the Sun’s disk. However, it may not be a completely new sunspot as this seems to be the old active region…

Asteroid 2 Pallas reaches opposition this month. The brightest Pallas reaches is magnitude +7.9, so it is well below naked eye visibility. It will require binoculars or a…

Throughout the first week of April, Mars moves between The Hyades and The Pleiades Star Clusters in Taurus. I took the images below on the evening of the…

Tonight, Monday the 1st of April, I will be visiting St Neots Astronomy Association. I will be presenting Out Of The Darkness: Pluto, New Horizons & Ultima Thule.…

My free monthly sky diary for April 2019 showing the events of the night sky visible from the UK is now available in a printable pdf version for…

On the 24th of March it was a clear sunny day. With clouds forecast to come over from midday, I decided to get out and do some solar…

On Tuesday the 19th of March I will returning to Cranfield Astronomical Society to present: Rosetta & Philae: From Concept To Reality My presentation includes the conclusion of this…

For the second time, Luton Astronomical Society have invited me to do their British Science Week Presentation. On Wednesday the 13th of March, I will be presenting my…