The Rambling Astronomer

I have tried to show how different cultures have seen different images of the constellations in the sky. In this first episode I look at Anadromeda. Be advised that many of the names are difficult to say so I apologise straight away if I have not pronounced them correctly

Join me, Martin Lunn tonight and every Monday evening from 7.00 pm-9.00 pm on the Astronomy Show, probably the only regular astronomy show on any radio station in the country. I will take my weekly look at the night sky and look at all the latest news in astronomy. There will be the astronomical anniversaries this week plus the A-Z of Constellations and Astronomy in Yorkshire - God’s Own Country....

Join me, Martin Lunn tonight and every Monday evening from 7.00 pm-9.00 pm on the Astronomy Show, probably the only regular astronomy show on any radio station in the country. I will take my weekly look at the night sky and look at all the latest news in astronomy. There will be the astronomical anniversaries this week plus the A-Z of Constellations and Astronomy in Yorkshire - God’s Own Country....

The last in the series, this brings an end to my look at the history of astronomy in Yorkshire.

Join me, Martin Lunn tonight and every Monday evening from 7.00 pm-9.00 pm on the Astronomy Show, probably the only regular astronomy show on any radio station in the country. I will take my weekly look at the night sky and look at all the latest news in astronomy. There will be the astronomical anniversaries this week plus the A-Z of Constellations and Astronomy in Yorkshire - God’s Own Country....

What a century for astronomy in Yorkshire

Join me, Martin Lunn tonight and every Monday evening from 7.00 pm-9.00 pm on the Astronomy Show, probably the only regular astronomy show on any radio station in the country. I will take my weekly look at the night sky and look at all the latest news in astronomy. There will be the astronomical anniversaries this week plus the A-Z of Constellations and Astronomy in Yorkshire - God’s Own Country....

The beginning of modern science is illustrated in this century.

Join me, Martin Lunn tonight and every Monday evening from 7.00 pm-9.00 pm on the Astronomy Show, probably the only regular astronomy show on any radio station in the country. I will take my weekly look at the night sky and look at all the latest news in astronomy. There will be the astronomical anniversaries this week plus the A-Z of Constellations and Astronomy in Yorkshire - God’s Own Country....

The end of the medieval period and this podcast takes people on a journal looking at astronomy in Yorkshire during this century.

Join me, Martin Lunn tonight and every Monday evening from 7.00 pm-9.00 pm on the Astronomy Show, probably the only regular astronomy show on any radio station in the country. I will take my weekly look at the night sky and look at all the latest news in astronomy. There will be the astronomical anniversaries this week plus the A-Z of Constellations and Astronomy in Yorkshire - God’s Own Country....

Join me, Martin Lunn tonight and every Monday evening from 7.00 pm-9.00 pm on the Astronomy Show, probably the only regular astronomy show on any radio station in the country. I will take my weekly look at the night sky and look at all the latest news in astronomy. There will be the astronomical anniversaries this week plus the A-Z of Constellations and Astronomy in Yorkshire - God’s Own Country....

I am continuing the look at the history of astronomy in Yorkshire. This podcast will be looking at the 1500s. Some of the charcters include Joihn Field who was the first Englishman to support the ideas of Copernicus, Sir Henry Savile who created the post of the Savalian professorship of Astronomy at Oxford, one of the most prestigous positions in astronomy today and Henry Briggs who introdued the...

Following the Norman invasion of Britain in 1066 there was a period during the next 200 years of a series of building not only building castles but also Abbeys and Monasteries. In Yorkshire alone there were over a dozen built, and these were built of stone and replaced the wooden Anglo Saxon structures. They did have one thing in common though; they had extensive libraries, which allowed them to b...

The Anglo-Saxon period is often known as the Dark Ages because we know so little about it, but astronomically it could not be more interesting. During this time there were several major events with global effects. In Britain it was a time of diverse views about the heavens, with Celtic, Greek, Saxon and Viking ideas all competing with each other.

When we think of astronomy we sometimes foget about the prehistoric pwriod, apart from the meteor which destroyed the dinosaurs an Stoneheneg. In the firt of a new series I will take you back 35 million years to when a meteor landed in what is now the Noeth Sea. Then we move forwrad to around 5,500 years ago and look at the Thornborough Henges. A series of henges that line up with Orion's Belt, ye...

Another little known Yorkshire astronomer, Herbert Hall Turner was born in Leeds and is prehaps not that well know, but he devised the astronomical unit of the parsec which is used by astronomers today and also plays a part in the naming of Pluto.

Sir Fred Hoyle was one of the most courful characters in astronomy. This is the man who gave us the term the Big Bang although he did not believe in the theory. The is the incredible story of a Yorkshire working at Cambridge.

Scriven Bolton 1883-1929 is a Yorkshire astronomer whose life and work is hardly known yet his contributions in particular in the field of astronomical illustrations were incredible and his work almost certainly influenced the famous American space scientist Chesley Bonestell.

Edward Milne was born in Hessle near Hull, his research included atomic physics, meteorological physics, and solar and stellar physics in particular stellar atmospheres and the structure of the Sun and stars.

One of the most important meteorites on Earth, this is the amazing and incredible story of the Middlesbrough Meteorite.

Alfred Fowler was born on March 22nd 1868 at Wilsden on the outskirts of Bradford and would become one of the most important astronomers of the first half of the 20th century. His work in the field of spectroscopy would lay the basis of modern physical astronomy. In 1919 he would become the first General Secretary of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) an association of professional astrono...

Although not born in Yorkshire Frank Watson Dyson attended the Heath Grammar School in Halifax before going onto Cambridge to study astronomy in mathematics. He was astronomer royal from 1910-1933 but he is probably best known for his introduction of the six Greenwich time Pips timesignal in 1924.

The first of out women astronomers Florence Taylor 1865-1932 was a member of the Leeds Astronomical Society and was the first woman tompresent a lecture to the society. That title was the woman astronomer Mary Somerville. She was a great supporter of women in astronomy.

A Classic rags to riches story. Thomas Cooke would become one of the greatest telescope makers of all time. He made York one of the optical instrumnet centres of the world. He built in 1869 what was the biggest telescope in the world. He evn made a telescope for Prince Albert. Cooke lenses are still used todayand many classic films such as Star Wars and Lord of the Rings were filmed using Cooke Le...