The Trawl of the traffic sources (for the wiki) continues and has pulled up another gem, let’s say hello to Robotmonkeys.net, they also found my SmartLED. However, they’ve picked up on the issue mentioned in the make blog comments about the accuracy of the internal temperature sensor. I should try and set the record straight on this, the [...]
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I’ve just found a Satellite photo of the UK taken on the afternoon that Saragh and I rushed to hospital to welcome are daughter Poppy into the world. Looking out of the window on the 7th January 2010, as Saragh went into labour, I had a feeling it was going to be a very special day. The last time [...]
Last night (17th March 2009) I was able to capture a few photos of the ISS and Discovery very close to docking. The combination of circumstance that has to fall into place is stagering, firstly, there has to be a shuttle about to dock, and that doesn’t exactly happen every week. Next, the orbit of [...]
I recently bought myself a really cheep “fish-eye” converter for my camera from eBay, and surprisingly it’s not half as bad as I was expecting it to be. Yes it’s blurry round the edges and looks about as far from anything professional as you could get, but it did only cost five pounds. It would [...]
Last night I snapped Lacrosse 5 as it made its way over my house. Lacrosse 5 is one of the US military classified Spy Satellites (or DarkSats if you are feeling dramatic). I wanted to get one long exposure with it arcing across the full frame, but a series of screw-ups meant I got three [...]
I snapped this a few nights ago (5/6/2008 00:01:55hrs 48sec exposure). It’s a quite amazing flare from a NOSS Pair (3-4 I think). It was purely by chance that I saw them rising fast in the southwest and I hit the shutter on the cam about half way through the flare. As you can see, [...]
(It makes more sense if you were thinking of Beck’s – Where it’s At (“I got Two turntables and a Microphone”) when you read it) I had the best night yet for Sat Obs last night, despite it being hazy and the ridiculous amounts of light pollution from living so close to London. I managed [...]
From the times… Despite the outlandish predictions of some internet pundits, the future of humanity was never at risk today. But scientists were hoping to use the fly-past to work out how best to defend the planet against asteroids in the future.
As I mentioned in a post yesterday, the sat known to us as USA-193 has come to the attention of the worlds press as a threat to all life on earth, when, complete with it’s multi-megaton thermo nuclear power source, it hurtles back into the earth’s atmosphere from whence it once came, to wipe either [...]
