I am currently in Fareham, Gosport at HMS Collingwood studying fot the first part of my foundation Degree in Engineering, and working towards the professional qualifications I need to be promoted to a Leading Weapons Engineer in the Royal Navy.
I lived in Bournemouth with my family for twelve years, attending Kinson Primary School, then going onwards to Bournemouth Grammar School which I attended from 1998 to 2003 when I joined the Navy even before I had recieved the results from my GCSEs.
I have had many interests so far in my life including scuba diving, ceramics, manga, art, weight lifting, various martial arts, poerty, philosophy, world religions, DJ-ing, and of course, I now come to astronomy.
I have not been at this long but I have found that the more I think I know, the more ignorant I find mself to be, which is why I am making this site, to give myself a reference for all this fantastic fact I find everywhere, and for other people to use, or even better, correct, add to and enhance.
So thanks for your time, I hope this site is as useful to you as it is fun for me, and here is hoping that you get some clear skies to put it to best use.
I have quite a bit apparently for someone new to the hobby.
Bresser Skylux 70mm aparture 700mm focal length refractor.
Skywatcher EXPLORER 150pl 150mm aparture 1200mm focal length (f8) newtonian.
Bresser 10x50 binoculars.
Asides from the multitude of online resources, I also use these books for reference and leasure reading-
Turn Left at Orion, by Guy Consolmagno and Dan M. Davis.
Atlas of the Constellations, by Giles Sparrow.
The Stargazers Handbook, by Giles Sparrow.
Wonders of the Planets, by Mitchell Beazley.
The Rough Guide to the Universe, by John Scalzi.
Universe, by Nicolas Cheetam.
BANG! by Brian May, Patrick Moore and Chris Linntott.
New Worlds, by Heather Couper with Nigel Best (circa 1985, yes the book is older than me)
Stars, by Ian Ridpath.
The Cosmos, by Adam Hart-Davis and Paul Bader.
Phillip's Planisphere.
Build a Model Solar System, Periodical distributed by Eaglemoss Publications.
The Starflight Handbook, by Eugene Mallove and Gregory Matloff.
Mining the Sky, by John S. Lewis.
Added the following to my library recently, now I need a whole new shelf just for my astronomy books:-
