off the map
This film is for Alasdair, brother of my dear friend Callum. off the map: To play this film please click here or on the big braw cosmos. Music credit: Icarus … Continue reading off the map
Category: big braw cosmos
For all comet seekers
‘A vast telescope will create a movie of the universe’
On the night before Sian’s mother died we were talking with her about all sorts of stuff. I brought into the conversation Catherine Heymans who had recently been appointed as … Continue reading ‘A vast telescope will create a movie of the universe’
‘Change here for Blairgowrie’
John Robertson [1830-1920]. Like his Angus compatriot, Rashiebog, I would loved to hae nattered awa’ wi him aboot a’ the planets, comets an stars!
“I’m going to discover something”
In introducing this book – about one of the brightest comets ever to pass by planet earth – the author Thomas Hockey, Professor of Astronomy, shares the origins of his … Continue reading “I’m going to discover something”
something already in the past
This wonderful photograph of a Chestnut tree in the South Downs featured in the Scotsman, 16 February 2021. I have superimposed onto this image the words of Kathleen Jamie from … Continue reading something already in the past
d i s c o v e r e d
As reported in today’s TIMES.
CAMPFIRE CONVERSATIONS
Wouldn’t it be lovely to sit around a campfire and listen to a story told by Karine Polwart about supernovas! This, followed by her singing! [As reported in the Scotsman,16 … Continue reading CAMPFIRE CONVERSATIONS
Female Astronomers
From the Book of Scottish Anecdote.