· Astrophotography
The North America Nebula & Pelican Nebula
The North America Nebula (NGC 7000) and neighbouring Pelican Nebula (IC5070 and IC5067) in Cygnus, near Deneb. A bright emission nebula, partially obscured by…
Blog
Thoughts on space, technology, and everything in between.
· Fun
UK Eclipse 2015 Photos
[](https://orbitingfrog.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/img7345.jpg) Today's partial Solar eclipse is off to a great start here in Witney, where the…
#Astrophotography
#eclipse
#Moon
#photo
#sun
#UK
· News
A New Paper All About #yellowballs
Another paper for the Milky Way Project. The Yellowballs began on the very first day of the Milky Way Project when a user asked me 'what is this?' and I wasn't…
· Fun
A Tour: From You to the Largest Structure in the Universe
Line 1. Let’s start with 'typical' humans. The average human adult male is 1.75 metres tall - that's 3.83 cubits or 5.74 feet. The average female is 1.62…
#Earth
#Galaxies
#Humans
#Scale
#Size
#Solar System
#space
#sun
#The Moon
· .Astronomy
An Open Chatbot for Astronomy: @botastro
Hubot is an open source chatbot created by GitHub. It's used by various companies, groups, and other techie types, to control systems, gather information, and…
#APOD
#dotastro
#Galaxy Zoo
#github
#hubot
· News
Going the Distance: Philae and Taliesin
This was an amazing week. On Wednesday the Rosetta spacecraft launched the tiny Philae lander on a 10km journey to the surface of a comet: a mountain-sized…
#Children in Need
#Philae
#Rosetta
#Taliesin
· Fun
Electrolysis of Water: with Pencils and a 9V Battery
H₂O might be the most familiar chemical compound on the planet. Many people know that water is H₂O, but most wouldn't think about what that means in a chemical…
#Electrolysis
#Experiment
#Hydrogen
#Kitchen
#Oxygen
#PEncils
#water
· News
Combining Your Clicks with Milkman
Really pleased to make my Milkman app available for all MWP users :)
· Fun
Mazda Makes My Year by Calling Me a 'Rebel'
[](https://www.mazdarebels.com/en-gb/content/the-astronomer/) I’ve been called a lot of things but ‘rebel’ hasn’t come up too often. Not that I mind. As part…
#grant
#Mazda
#Mazda Rebels
#rebel
#video
#Zooniverse
· Uncategorized
A Daily Dose of Zooniverse
[](http://daily.zooniverse.org) 'Something awesome from the Zooniverse every day' was the tagline that we came up with, almost a year ago, for a new Zooniverse…
#blogging
#citizen science
#Daily
#RSS
#Zooniverse
