Astronomy Basics
Nobel Prize for Physics Speculation
Just to mention that that Tuesday (October 8th 2024) will see the announcement of this year’s Nobel Prize for Physics. ...
Grieg and Elgar at the National Concert Hall
Yesterday I once again headed off after work into Dublin by train to attend a concert by the National Symphony ...
Sturm and Liouville | In the Dark
It’s Friday afternoon at the end of Week 2 here at Maynooth so I’ve now completed the 4th lecture of ...
Viewing Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) from Australia in October 2024.
Evening sky on Sunday, October 13 as seen from Adelaide at 20:09 ACDST (45 minutes after sunset), C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS ...
Mental Health and Graduate Studies
There has been a lot of comment on social media about a recent article in Nature about the mental health ...
O(G)HAM | In the Dark
Here’s a fascinating video about a project looking into Ogham, an early-mediaeval way of writing that dates back to about ...
The Return of the Hume Doctoral Scholarships?
This morning it was drawn to my attention that the TSI Building on Maynooth University campus was surrounded by fences ...
Maynooth Space Week Update! | In the Dark
Euclid View of the Perseus Cluster A couple of week ago I posted about the event we are putting on ...
Thursday October 3 to Thursday October 10
The New Moon is Thursday, October 3. Daylight savings stars October 6. Saturn is just past opposition, and is visible ...
Penny Dreadful | In the Dark
The other day I was in the local library and walked past the DVD collection on the way to checking ...
