Saturday 1 February 2020

view from a hotel window

I travelled down to Kensington from York last night, staying at a hotel near the AstroFest event.

view from the (very grubby) hotel window
a more downward view, explaining the noise
I attended only today’s talks this year (as I had to work yesterday); they were all fascinating as usual.  This year we had people watching out for asteroids that might impact Earth, solar flares, that image of a black hole, ESA missions, Hubble and art, the history of the Royal Astronomical Society, a mission to an as yet unknown comet, and the next 200 years of astronomy. The Director General of ESA has the most wonderful sense of humour!

And, after having been talking about it for several years, we finally bought a new, bigger telescope, to be delivered next week.


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