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een to interact with the audience but can see how it would be distracting other aspects of the filming process were also coming through as pete lawrence and lucie green attempted to demonstrate with models a lunar eclipse the number of takes seemed to suggest this was being done on the actual timescale of planetary movements but the result would be a minute or so if that of final screentime sounds coming from the presentation table included the presenters clapping before takes to give the soundman something to latch on to and the banging of a later crater creation demonstration as the evening turned to night further people crumbled away including my small group of irregulars the hardy few of us remaining were moulded into a crack team of audience members by jane who brought people and telescopes forward to cover the cameras fields of view as my telescope and i were slotted into place the team were in search of a balloon from a past demonstration another audience member and i caught sight of it making a bid for the busy road far in the distance too far to be saved i m afraid two demonstrations remained to be filmed the first was one i d seen on a couple of documentaries recently which was placing a few drops of milk in a tank of water to simulate particles in the atmosphere when illuminated by a white light torch these would then show how particles in our own atmosphere preferentially scatter bluer light leaving the redder light of the sun as we see at sunset or as is projected onto the moon during more complete eclipses milk in tank torched shines through sounds simple enough however a large group of people standing on blackheath common after a few hours near no public toilets while a tank is being ever so slowly filled with water can make things more complicated worse when the first attempt sees too much milk added and the tank has to be emptied and refilled eventually under the careful gaze of researcher and another ucl guy will gater the right amount of milk was added and ucl researcher lucie green was able to carry on i also noticed during this time how active the impressionist jon culshaw another presenter was behind the camera constantly scoping out angles and passing on findings seeing him present it is perhaps easy to forget he had his own show with i d assume far more control over how that was shot the second demonstration saw lucie bring out a tangle of foil ribbon and a small portable van der graaf generator to replicate the conditions seen by the apollo astronauts when fountains of dust erupted from newly sunlit areas the foil was to act as a particle of dust become charged and levitate above the generator one thing the apollo astronauts didn t encounter on the moon was a strong gust of wind and i was soon handing an escaped tangle of foil back to lucie the next two attempts saw the tangle land in the hands of people either side of me with the second one seeing the foil untangle and levitate for a short while before its bid for freedom just as they had decided to abandon the effort with the first drops of rain starting to send astronomers heading for their lens caps the wind dropped finally we saw the tangle of foil unravel itself into a three dimensional figure of eight shape and hover above the generator for an appreciable length of time before again making its way into the crowd followed by lucie and her wand like device those behind the camera thought all this amusing enough for the take to be declared done for which a round of applause was given finally all the presenters were brought out of perdu for the final goodbye to camera they were given their crib notes final decisions on who was to say what made and final discussions on the script chris was a little reticent to state it was 1 am and the time of maximum eclipse as the intended audience would likely know maximum eclipse was ten minutes earlier outvoted he used the version given to him and each presenter went through their bit then a few more takes and retakes before the cameras were turned on the crowd for our rictus grins the smiles of people ignoring the rain beating down on equipment stretching from the hundreds to the thousands of pounds worth of telescope in support of a program that had probably sustained them through darker nights when developing their own love of what can be a very solitary hobby without the warmth of an observing group rictus grins over the signal was given for us all to pack up and out of the rain pete came round to say thank you to everyone he could find and will gater also came over to say hello recognising me from twitter there had been another guy who recognised me from meeting at astrofest but it is quite a feat to recognise me from a twitter avatar even in daylight and with that the night was over the sky at night team had their hotel to return to whilst the rest of us tidied away our stuff and made our way back to our various homes happy to have given something back to a program that has given so much over the decades it has been broadcast while asking for little in return having survived graveyard slots and the loss of its iconic first presenter sir patrick moore the sky at night faces review by the end of this year representing only 20 minutes a month plus one repeat and a 30 minute special on bbc4 the sky at night bridges the gap between the more cerebral documentaries exploring the academic world of science and those aspects of astronomy available to the man in the street at a time when interest in astronomy has never been greater when the uk s satellite information services sector remains the only sector to have not only grown but grown fast at every point in the economic downturn now is not the time to switch off what for some may be the only thing nurturing the germ of an interest in the subject there is no information on what the review may mean it could well be a standard annual review of the program or it could be something more serious but whatever the reasons it doesn t hurt to show an appreciation of the program by signing the online petition to keep it running i wouldn t like others to be denied the chance to experience a little bit of tv magic on a cold blustery night on blackheath common full set of my images here leave a comment posted in astronomy eyeball astronomy public events 2011 in review posted on 10 01 2012 leave a comment the wordpress com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog here s an excerpt the concert hall at the sydney opera house holds 2 700 people this blog was viewed about 14 000 times in 2011 if it were a concert at sydney opera house it would take about 5 sold out performances for that many people to see it click here to see the complete report leave a comment posted in news springtime for spacetime posted on 21 04 2011 leave a comment imagine you re looking out onto a canal and see two insects on the surface of the water their weight presses down and causes a dip into which anything rolling on the surface could fall in towards them this is how mass creates gravitational attraction by curving space time the bigger the insect the larger the dip and the stronger the gravity now imagine the insects are moving about or spinning around they can create small ripples on the water each ripple is like a small dip travelling out from the middle anything on the water s surface the ripple passes under will be jiggled about falling into the dips and pushed out by the peaks of the ripples space time is a lot more rigid and the ripples a lot smaller but it is that jiggling that missions like lisa are looking for leave a comment posted in astronomy missions watching saturn at opposition posted on 03 04 2011 leave a comment the ringed planet saturn is at opposition ie it is at the part of its orbit that brings it closest to the earth this in turn makes it a good time to have a look at this most stunning planet global astronomy month has also begun and they started things off with a live view of saturn for those wanting to look at how the professionals do it tom stallard and henrik melin of leicester university are presently stuck up mauna kea in hawaii measuring the aurora with the infrared telescope facility and have also put that online they ve blogged about what they re doing here and will be broadcasting 11am 5pm bst every day of their observations at this page leave a comment posted in astronomy news observations public events spectroscopy auroral blog on rog blog posted on 17 10 2010 leave a comment max alexander the photographer behind the explorers of the universe exhibition has been featured in a blog entry for the royal observatory greenwich site the entry includes a photograph of two auroral filaments paths taken by the impacting electrons intertwined by the complex electromagnetic interactions of the involved currents the entry signs off with an infrared image of saturn s aurora featured in the rog s new planetarium show meet the neighbours leave a comment posted in astronomy eyeball astronomy news public events the skies over kendal in october posted on 03 10 2010 leave a comment we re moving into the darker colder and usually rather cloudy nights of the end of the year as ever this post is illustrated with a few sky charts showing midnight on the first last and fifteenth day of the month the dots represent brighter stars green circles are star clusters nebulae galaxies and the like and the very brightest stars the moon and the planets are named when they appear sky charts provided using stellarium solar system the moon will be in the last quarter phase on the 1st new on the 7th first quarter on the 14th and full on the 23rd on the 14th the moon will occult the star 50 sagittarii at around 8 10pm for northern observers the middle of the month sees the start of the orionid meteor shower which will peak on the 21st peak rates are low and a full moon will blot out all but the brightest orionids are fast and leave persistent trails they are best seen before dawn heavens above presently lists two comets above magnitude 12 and seven asteroids above magnitude 10 in the hours of darkness the comets are 103p hartley at 5 6 approaching visibility in cassiopeia and 10p tempel 2 at 10 1 in cetus details on the future movements and changing brightness of the comets can be found here the asteroids are 6 hebe at 7 8 in cetus 4 vesta at 7 9 in virgo 8 flora at 8 6 in aquarius 1 ceres at 8 9 in sagittarius 7 iris at 9 4 in gemini 39 laetitia at 9 5 in aquarius and 471 papagena at 9 8 in cetus rather a busy constellation this month the planets mars is usually lost in atmospheric haze now it shines at 1 5 appearing in the south west only to set an hour after the sun venus is seen just below mars as the sun sets shining much brighter but also lower requiring a very low horizon to the west to see it mercury for the next day or two mercury is visible in the eastern horizon shortly before the sun rises though it will appear dimmer than its 1 3 magnitude suggests due to the bright sky around it saturn returns to the skies at the end of the month making an appearance shortly before dawn with rings now angled such that they look more like rings the planet will shine at a magnitude of 0 7 jupiter continues to shine brightly as that star in the east it shines at a magnitude of 2 9 and is in an empty part of the sky its inclination is such that transits of satellites happen quite a bit times of some of these and appearances of the great red spot are here uranus lies a couple of degrees west of jupiter plus a little above and shines at 5 7 neptune is also in the morning skies on the border of capricorn and aquarius a few things outside the solar system the constellations of leo virgo and the big dipper are all home to galaxies details here this is not a good month to look at faint things as the all night twilight obliterates detail and contrast the usual stuff if you want to watch satellites flaring or passing in the sky even sometimes during the day then go to heavens above to get times and directions if you need assistance in deciding where things are in the sky why not install the free program stellarium which does all the work for you finally to avoid the dreaded clouds met check gives a quick forecast and the met satellites or other satellites can be used to track breaks in the cloud for an indication of auroral or solar activity spaceweather com is an invaluable resource if the stars aren t available there s always solar astronomy projections of the sun onto white card can show sunspots when properly focused a good filter not an eyepiece filter or a dedicated solar telescope will show better details never observe the sun without filters and never with an inadequate inappropriate or old and therefore possibly with holes in filter public events for young astronomers ages 9 16 space explorers is run in kendal museum on the third saturday of most months from 2 30 4 00 pm the next meeting is on saturday the 23rd the society for popular astronomy also has a sky map for young astronomers here plus why not pop along to the eddington society which meets at kendal museum on the first monday of each month this month it is on the 4th with member s projects the subject of the meeting there will also be a public observing event at the brewery arts centre on the 15th from 6 30pm don t forget to check back here and on my twitter account for the latest astronomical events in this area leave a comment posted in astronomy comets eyeball astronomy news public events satellites this month s stars fits liberator now stand alone posted on 02 10 2010 leave a comment fits liberator is a thing that allows you to download view and manipulate images in the complex fits and pds data formats produce pretty pictures with them and render them in the simpler and more common jpeg and other image formats before now it operated as an add on to adobe photoshop now however it has been released as a stand alone free program download it here leave a comment posted in astronomy news public events what has eso got hidden posted on 02 10 2010 leave a comment the european southern observatory which operates a number of high end observatories in the southern hemisphere has put up a rather enticing webpage it promises to open up and reveal eso s hidden treasures on monday 4th of october we wait to see what they are leave a comment posted in astronomy news public events pan starrs spots hazard in space posted on 02 10 2010 leave a comment the panoramic survey telescope and rapid response system or pan starrs 1 is a 1 8 metre telescope with a 1 4 gigapixel camera mounted on it constantly surveying the sky it hunts stars galaxies and also anything that moves from moment to moment specifically comets trans neptunian objects and asteroids now it has managed to capture an asteroid that may or may not pose a future hazard 2010 sts3 is a 45 metre wide asteroid capable of causing regional disruption on a par with the objec...