I was asked recently to (re)write my story for The Huffington Post. They translated it to German, which looks like this: “Wie ich in meinem Wohnzimmer berühmt wurde”. Below you can read the English version. It was an evening in the summer break, August 2007. I was sitting at my desk and – as a […]
Patrick Duis, one of the amateur astronomers from the Dutch Astroforum, took another picture of Hanny’s Voorwerp. Now I know there are others out there who’d like to give it a try too, so if you have: do let me know. Here are the specifics Patrick has e-mailed me, and of course the pretty picture. […]
I remember Bill (lead on our Voorwerp/Hubble paper) told me a while ago that the Voorwerp was going to be featured on a Hubble calendar and now these lovely people are tweeting pictures of this year’s Space calendar! Very cool – thanks for sharing! Bookmark It Hide Sites
Maybe you’ve seen this question before on twitter – from me or from one of the other ‘astro people’ you know – but I thought I’d mention it here too. The Zookeepers (the astronomers behind Galaxy Zoo), have selected five images to represent the Zoo on the cover of October’s ‘Astronomy and Geophysics’. You can […]
Found it! (My mailbox is actually quite organised). Patrick Duis, who was in the audience during my lecture in Tilburg, sent me this picture he took of my Voorwerp and its neighbour, galaxy IC2497. He said he used a 200mm F5 Newton telescope and an EOS 400D DSLR camera, for those of you wondering. Thank you, […]
