Burns night 2015

25th of January for the uninitiated. last nights Burn’s night at BBTC was very good. Doug K was excellent as Tam, Colin M did an excellent Ode, good company, Alasdair M won a bottle of whisky and then promptly drunk the lot with friends-he guessed correctly when Doug would fall off the perch, around line […]

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The Second day of the New Year

Must be on a roll, two posts in two days. Got up at 6.30am, very dark, now watching the sleet bounce off the ground. listened to a mediocre DID by very mediocre RayWinstone while filling in my tax retrun. Dont know what is more depressing… Reviewed my lenses for the Canon, downloaded Nebulosity and EOS […]

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New Years day 2015

It is New Year’s day. No, I did not make this a resolution, that is to say, to start a blog. Rather, I have spent some hours in front of the screen browsing a lot of websites on Astronomy observatories, from  Poland Italy, England and yes even one in Auckinleck. It struck me I would […]

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