Here's a list of the great astronomy books written by Jacqueline Mitton. All books are 32 pages, with stunning illustrations by artist Christine Balit. Kids just love the glittery foil stars. From amazon.com $8. Star struck kids love them to bits. Astronomy is looking up! The URLs take you to amazon.com. All titles available from amazon.co.uk etc
Zoo in the Sky, a book about animal constellations, is a best seller. See the customer reviews on amazon http://bit.ly/zooSKY Get them outside finding those animals in the sky!
Zodiac, Celestial Circle of the Sun is similar to Zoo in the Sky, but introduces the 12 zodiacal constellations with a nice mix of real science and myth http://bit.ly/ZODiac
The Planet Gods blends real science with the Greek mythology. http://bit.ly/PLAnet
Once Upon a Starry Night presents a further ten constellations, with Greek and Roman myth blended with real science http://bit.ly/STArry
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Thursday, 31 December 2009
Wednesday, 30 December 2009
Large Hadron Collider
Will it be a Happy New Year for the Large Hadron Collider? If the experiment does not find new physics, old physics could suffer serious funding cuts
Blue Moon New Year's Eve 2009
The first decade of the 21st century concludes tomorrow as a Blue Moon rises in the east. In a definition dating from 1946, a Blue Moon is the second Full Moon in a calendar month. This phenomenon happens about once every 2.7 years.
Tuesday, 29 December 2009
Galileo Sidereus Nuncius
7 January 2010 is the 400th anniversary of Galileo's first sighting of the Galilean satellites of Jupiter, which he named the Medicean stars. I'll be blogging Galileo's observations of 2010 on a real time basis, just 400 years late. http://bit.ly/7WsibK
Seigneurie d'Arse wine
Finally got round to drinking this Fitou this evening. Fitou was the first area in Languedoc-Rousillon to get AOC status. The wine is supple and drinkable. A good quaffer for €4. A good joke wine. Joke wines are not that common.
Monday, 2 November 2009
Astronomy on cruise Queen Mary 2
We've worked very hard on this. Cunard Queen Mary 2 11 - 17 November transatlantic. Lectures Armchair Tour of the Universe, Aliens and Astrobiology, Cosmology Big Bang and Origin of Univer, The Sun our Datime Star. Lecturers are Simon Mitton and Jacqueline Mitton engaged by Cunard
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
New historical Book Women in Astronomy
You are invited to an event to mark the publication of ' Women in Early British and Irish Astronomy-Stars and Satellites' at 1800 in the Royal Astronomical Society on November 3, 2009, at 1800 GMT.
Dr Mary Bruck, who died last December, devoted her last book to the place of women in astronomy through the biographies of 25 women born between 1650 and 1900.While some are well known others have received less than their due recognition, often having occupied inconspicuous and sometimes thankless places as assistants to male family members. Collectively their lives trace the story of women's entry into the male world of science.
To mark the occasion Mona Evans will give a presentation on Caroline Herschel, the first woman to be awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1828 ( the next woman to receive it was in 1996!). In 1781, a German-born musician observing with a home-made telescope from his back garden in Bath, England, discovered a new planet, the first to be found since ancient times. We now call it Uranus. This unexpected discovery, which doubled the size of the known Solar System, propelled William Herschel to international celebrity. But that was only the start. Sponsored by the king of England, he and his sister Caroline spent the rest of their lives surveying the heavens, making Caroline the first female professional astronomer. This is the story of their remarkable partnership and the revolution it wrought in our knowledge of the Universe, with particular emphasis on the role of the usually unheralded Caroline.
Jacqueline and Simon Mitton Total Astronomy Limited will talk about Mary Bruck and her book, the second to appear in the new series published for the RAS by Springer. The programme will conclude with a drinks reception.
Please contact Lara Maisey ( lkm@ras.org.uk ) if you wish to attend
Dr Mary Bruck, who died last December, devoted her last book to the place of women in astronomy through the biographies of 25 women born between 1650 and 1900.While some are well known others have received less than their due recognition, often having occupied inconspicuous and sometimes thankless places as assistants to male family members. Collectively their lives trace the story of women's entry into the male world of science.
To mark the occasion Mona Evans will give a presentation on Caroline Herschel, the first woman to be awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1828 ( the next woman to receive it was in 1996!). In 1781, a German-born musician observing with a home-made telescope from his back garden in Bath, England, discovered a new planet, the first to be found since ancient times. We now call it Uranus. This unexpected discovery, which doubled the size of the known Solar System, propelled William Herschel to international celebrity. But that was only the start. Sponsored by the king of England, he and his sister Caroline spent the rest of their lives surveying the heavens, making Caroline the first female professional astronomer. This is the story of their remarkable partnership and the revolution it wrought in our knowledge of the Universe, with particular emphasis on the role of the usually unheralded Caroline.
Jacqueline and Simon Mitton Total Astronomy Limited will talk about Mary Bruck and her book, the second to appear in the new series published for the RAS by Springer. The programme will conclude with a drinks reception.
Please contact Lara Maisey ( lkm@ras.org.uk ) if you wish to attend
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