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After days of intense study of the Government’s dastardly decision to extend the failed badger cull by a preposterous 8 weeks – a desperate attempt to put a sticking plaster over a gaping wound … I needed a break.

Comet stereos never lose their magic for me. Even if I am taking liberties with Nature …

This wonderful photograph of comet ISON by Damian Peach screamed out to me. The delicate tracery of that fabulous tail – the exquisite thought that it might develop into a Great Comet at the end of the year …

So I carefully separated it from its star background …

And then, having done the opposite trick as well (removing the comet form the star field) I was at liberty to start generating a stereo pair – to be viewed in parallel, free-viewing, or if you have your OWL stereoscope handy … enjoy !!!!

Cheers !

Bri

13th Oct, 2013

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The first proper pictures of Comet ISON are beginning to appear. This comet is approaching – and has been predicted to be the ‘Comet of the Century’. Of course we have heard this before ! Comets are hard to predict.

But this is looking pretty good so far.

Here’s my shot at producing the FIRST stereo of Comet ISON 2013 !

www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-images/small-bodies/comet-ison.html

Bri

PS – It’s in the late night/ early morning skies right now … not far from Mars.

21/12/12

Check out our new Astronomy paper, due to be published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society next month.

http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/1212.4759

My illustrious PhD supervisor, Prof Michael Rowan-Robinson, has put an amazing amount of work into amalgamating the results of my doctorate and his models of Zodiacal Dust … producing an argument that an interstellar component to the dust, flowing through the Solar System may have been detected. It’s something close to my heart, because I wanted to publish this part of the research in the 1970s but was dissuaded.

Well, it’s nice to be ‘out there’ again. And all thanks to my esteemed Prof.

Cheers

Bri