I am privileged to say that Sir Patrick Moore was my proposer for membership of the Royal Astronomical Society having filmed an entire "Sky at Night" Programme at the Crendon Observatory. The talk describes the imaging of Deep Space from the observatory and is regularly updated with recent astronomical discoveries. I recount the achievements of several amazingly gifted British amateurs where this in one area of science in which the sheer enthusiast gives great aid to the professional. Discoveries by these amateurs command the deployment of major observatories such as Hubble. Many things in astronomy go wrong and I recite some of them!
Views: 1342 | Enquiries: 14I am a retired Chartered Surveyor who specialised in the bringing forward of land for development and I am a dedicated amateur astronomer geared to taking images of deep space objects. My speaking was triggered fifteen years ago when I learned that the premises from which, as a schoolboy, I nicked a couple of Blacker bombard anti-tank missiles and a box of L-delay fuses was "Winston Churchill's Toyshop", the UK's premier weapons experimental station in WW2. I wrote to the BBC suggesting they make a documentary: their response was: the BBC “does not accept ideas for programmes of a documentary or factual nature” so I decided to put together my own Powerpoint presentation. ( I did persuade the Discovery Channel to make a programme but this omitted so much) I do not wish to travel more than around 30 miles from Thame in Oxfordshire unless escorted.
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