astronomy – Hangout

Wednesday, 12 August 2009Wednesday, 12 August 2009

Hubble Ultra Deep Field

Showing 10,000 galaxies, the overwhelming Hubble Ultra Deep Field is the most amazing, most humbling image in history, demonstrating how tiny and precious we are. This video explains how it was taken, and shows it in three dimensions.

A change in our gap year plans!
We have news … it turns out that there is an amazing opportunity to skipper a beautiful new catamaran from Capetown to the Caribbean as part of the WARC … Chris’s eyes lit up at the prospect and within 24 hours of an initial, slightly surreal discussion with the owners of Fat Kat II, we […]
… and back to Capetown …
What an amazing tour … our final stop before Capetown was Bartholomeus Klip – a Victorian farmhouse with its own 40 sqkm private nature reserve. The farmhouse is set in beautiful gardens and has its own dam (I swam in it!). Game drives morning and evening to see zebra, springbock, ostrich, antelope and so much […]
Exploring South Africa …
Wow … the scenery is stunning; incredible diversity and vast. We are having a very lovely time … fabulous food, superb wines (we have been trying many!), gorgeous guest houses, fascinating history and some culture thrown in along the way. We flew from Hoedspruit to Capetown a few days ago and picked up a car. […]