This year’s National Astronomy Meeting started today. It’s being hosted by Queen’s University Belfast so even if I hadn’t completely forgotten about it until just a few minutes a go, I’m working all week so wouldn’t have been able to make.
If like me, you have been unable to attend there are a couple of resources online so you can almost be there and catch up with the goings on and Astro talk.
First off there is the NAM Blog hosted over at Orbiting Frog and run by Chris Lintott, Stuart Lowe and Rob Simpson.
Then there is the Twitter Feed if you do that kind of thing! After there’s the Flickr Photos and finally there is a Youtube Channel for all kinds of video goodness.
I’m going to be keeping an eye on all of these and hopefully next year I’ll remember that it’s actually taking place and be able to attend :)
Unfortunately the clocks go forwards tomorrow morning and this can mean only one thing. Endless crappy summer evenings where, with the blessing of light pollution, it never gets dark enough to observe at a sane time. Okay, so it gets vaguely dark around 2 am, but then it get vaguely dark in a cave too, and I’d rather observe there.
Perhaps I’m not dedicated enough, but 2 am is a time for sleeping people :)
I’ve let things drift a little too much lately.
I’ve been ultra busy at work and unfortunately my studies have been affected (haven’t actually done any for about two weeks now :( )
Well tomorrow it stops (or starts!) and I’m getting some work done. I only have a few chapters to catch up with and some observations to make for the sidereal vs. solar day project. I see on the weather reports that it’s gonna be cloudy and rainy and awful (what else on a bank holiday?!) but hey, you never know.
I did another cheating sketch the other day so I may post that soon.
I while back I mentioned The Particle Zoo on twitter. I ordered all 13 particles and they arrived on Saturday morning; I finally got round to taking a picture this evening and realised how disgusting my desk is :)
Oh well…
(back row) weak gauge boson, Higgs boson, proton, graviton, photon, gluon
(front row) neutron, up quark, down quark, neutrino, tau, muon, electron
