Author Archives: Bill

Several years ago, I purchased and read – to a point, the book Getting Things Done by David Allen. I can only remember bits of it (I can’t find my copy, I’d be surprised if I’d sent it to the charity shop). The main thing is to have an inbox, which everything goes into. ThatContinue reading “2124 – Office tidying”

Tonights Camera Club gave members an opportunity to show other members a few pieces of their work as projected images. The header picture was one of mine. It was an attempt to explore the macro capabilities of the iPhone. 17. It’s not perfect, but it isn’t bad, even Jon (one of the top A group)Continue reading “2123 – Camera Club Night”

I’m fairly confident that this was close to “peak eclipse” (93%-ish) for us here, in Gosport on the 12th of August. So it seems entirely appropriate as a picture for tonights blog. Tonights session was split in to two parts. The first half was about the sun, which I can’t deny is fascinating. But It’sContinue reading “2122 – Astronomy Course Week 4 – The Sun & Moon”

I was stood in the kitchen, and notoced some movement at the bottom of the garden. The fox had come ever the sheds and was quite calmly strolling down the garden path. I was at the sink, and made no attempt to hide myself. It was coming towards me, not in the least bit bothered.Continue reading “2120 – How casual can it get?”

On the 2nd Friday of each month, the Hampshire Astronomy Group hosts a lecture in the Clanfield Memorial Hall. The lectures have an astronomy theme. I attended my first one tonight. The topic for tonight was radio cosmology, as opposed to radio astronomy.looks at the nature of the universe using radio waves. The lecture wasContinue reading “2119 – An Astronomy Lecture”

I really must try and get a picture of another constellation. I had to go out at about twenty past 10 as I had forgotten to put the car on charge. I took the opportunity to take a quick loook at the sky. Bearing in mind that this is out the front of the house.Continue reading “2118 – A Quick Look Out”

In the header picture I was trying to capture a small fish, and the phone was on the selfie stick, I wanted to get it as close to the water as i could. Of course, I didn’t mean to get me, or the phone. But the picture is interesting to me because it looks sightlyContinue reading “2117 – u3a Wednesday”

Tonight was the first competition of the camera club’s season. It was Projected Digitial Images (PDI’s), with an open subject. Because we are still getting our act together after the holiday, neither of us had prepared any images. We were disappointed, but just felt that on top of everything else, we weren’t going to rushContinue reading “2116 – Camera Club Night”

Tonight’s header picture is relevant in the sense that it was taken at the Hampshire Astronomy Group’s observation site. Tonights session was all about telescopes, from the early days, to today, and tomorrows devices, the largest currently under construction have a 39 metre mirror. But the part that I was most interested in was theContinue reading “2115 – Astronomy”