Some great pictures and information on comet ISON on http://earthsky.org/space/best-photos-images-videos-of-comet-ison?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=33240b6ead-EarthSky_News&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-33240b6ead-393761461 http://www.flickr.com/photos/uclmaps/10342937834/ photo by UCL Mathematical and physical sciences dept (http://www.flickr.com/photos/uclmaps/)
Naturelog: Monday 11th November
The colder weather has set in and Autumn has finally arrived on the patch and the last week has seen…
M19
M19 (aka NGC6273) is a globular cluster in the constellation Ophiuchus which is just visible with binoculars. It is approx…
Colours of Autumn (4)
Views of Amsterdam (2)
How thin is my house! Traveling around the canals of Amsterdam you soon notice some remarkable houses. The normal canal-side…
Blue Tit
A common garden bird in Britain’s Gardens, it has embraced the use of nest boxes and the provision of garden…
Views of Amsterdam (1)
Ask most people for a single word description of Amsterdam and they will probably say canals. They certainly dominate the…
Roman eye medicine
I attended an interesting meeting at the weekend on health and medicine in the Roman Empire. One of the presentations…
Autumn Fungi
One of the great delights of walking in the woods during the autumn is the variety of Fungi which appear…
Patch up date October
It was overall a fairly quiet month on the patch. I don’t know if it is the mild weather but…
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