Posts Tagged ‘Astronomy’

Worldwide Telescope: Take a tour of space

It seems like WorldWide Telescope is now available for people to download by Mac and PC users around the world. It’s a pretty heavy application so make sure you have a decent PC to run it on. It needs 1Gb of RAM with 2Gb recommended, 1Gb of hard disk space...

Isle of Man Observatory Visit

I went on a visit of the Astronomical Observatory here in the Isle of Man. The Isle of Man Astronomical Society have an observatory out near Foxdale and they organised a visit for the Douglas Round Table to go and take a look. We had a talk about the history...

Get off my moonbase

I hope none of you have ever bought a plot on the moon. There’s a number of places online where you can “buy” an acre of moon terrain: MoonEstates.com – one acre for £20 ParamountZone – will sell you an acre for £19.95 So, what do you get for your...

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