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.
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Point Venus, Tahiti. Visiting the location of Captain Cooks mission to observe the Transit of Venus - a key step in measuring the scale of the solar system.
The memorial is small, and showing a bit of wear and tear, but the plaque is readable.
Somewhat awe inspiring to think of the effort that was put into organising these missions!
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With a bit of luck this is the link to the Vera Rubin images
skyviewer.app/explorer
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Just wow!🤩
Thousands of asteroids… will be millions
Variable stars
And just look at the triffid and lagoon!
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Wow…. Just part of the first image from
The LSST Vera Rubin Observatory….
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At the institute of astronomy this afternoon attending the “launch event”, if that’s the right word for a ground based telescope.
Celebrating the start of a new area in high resolution Astronomy with the Vera Rubin telescope!
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One of the dishes of the One Mile Array - at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cambridge.
I got to spend happy hours processing miles of paper tape once upon a time, looking for variations in the periods of pulsars… didn’t find any :-)
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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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