Paul Fellows
Having built his first telescope aged 14 and experiencing the “wow” moment of seeing the rings of Saturn for the first time, he has been stargazing for over 50 years.
Paul holds a Master’s degree in natural sciences and a post-graduate diploma in computer science from the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and chairman of the Cambridge Astronomical Association. Twice winner of the Queen’s Award for Technology and of a lifetime achievement award from Emmanuel College Cambridge he was also awarded the British Empire Medal in the 2005 New years honours list
Paul co-presents the public observing evenings at the University of Cambridge, leading the stargazing every week to audiences of 200+, and gives talks to clubs, societies and on cruise ships all around the world.
Paul Fellows
Thanks for all your comments and feedback. I try to read them all, but it’s hard to keep up!
I do find the YouTube algorithm weird and inexplicable at the moment the talk “why are there no green stars?” Which had about 100,000 views in a month, and then stopped…. Well it seems to be on a surge again … what is going on ?
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Do you prefer … this time with the third way addressed ((we live and learn : Sorry if you already answered my binary only question which was clearly inadequate…. ))
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Whoop whoop… new microphone is now working
Only took half a day of messing about deep inside windows/setup/audio/advanced/input to find the right order of turning on the Audio output and then turning on the audio input driver and suddenly the built in test record works.
Before the application test modes all worked but it recorded silence.
Don’t you just love it 😊
Anyway, let’s hope it stays working next time they push an upgrade at me!
So, the latest batch of videos have what I hope is much better quality sound.
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Took a trip out to Ashdon today, and photographed the memorial post which commemorates the fall site of the Ashdon meteorite- 102 years ago - unusual because it was a witnessed fall.
So yes, this is a post about a post - but it’s the sort of thing that I find interesting 🧐
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Cat scanning the universe with quasar light has more than doubled its view count in 24 hours thanks to you guys
Click to see the full curve
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For some weird reason this talk
CAT-scanning the Universe with Quasar Light
Has had only a couple of hundred views over the four years of its life.
I think it’s a really interesting one ; but YouTube works in mysterious ways:-)
https://youtu.be/o5KllsvLE9w
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Showing off the Sun In hydrogen alpha light - on the aft deck of Cunard Queen Victoria at La Palma - lots of “wow” factor as the Sun was very active!
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Whoop whoop
10,000 subscribers when I woke up this morning.
Hope everyone enjoys the latest videos!
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Thank you all for your comments. I try to read them and respond if possible but there are a lot!
Currently just short of ten thousand subscribers which is a hundred times as many as at the start of the year!!!
Want to help? Subscribe and get it over that milestone!
🤔 try sharing a favourite video with some other like minded people and see how many it gets on board!
Cheers!
Paul
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Hello all!
I’m off on my travels for the next two weeks - as Astronomer in Residence on the Cunard Queen Victoria where I’ll be doing three lectures and a planetarium show in the theatre plus a couple of live stargazing evenings as long as the weather cooperates. I even brought a solar telescope so as to show a few sunspots (while we are in port!)
So I won’t get to make or process any more videos but don’t panic! I have queued up a whole list to go live while I’m away, looking at Altair, Vega, and the notion that the Earth might once have had rings. Hope you find them interesting and enjoyable.
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