Martin Lunn MBE

Another ramble to the gamma quadrant - next blog on November 14th 2025 Many thanks to all the people who look at my blogs. Just to let everyone know that I am back off on another rambling astronomer mission to t...

Another ramble to the gamma quadrant - Next blog on Friday 14th November 2025 theramblingastronomer.blogspot.com/2025/10/anot... #astronomy

A little ramble through 19th century astronomy - small observatory for Columbia College in 1873 Nature July 3 rd 1873 We learn that there has been erected a small observatory on the Columbia (U.S.) College campus for educational and...

A little ramble through 19th century astronomy - small observatory for Columbia Campus in 1873 theramblingastronomer.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-li... #astronomy

Cooke Telescope Tales - comet of 1882 seen from India with a Cooke telescope The great comet of 1882 was first seen in September of that year and was observed and photographed by astronomers all around the world. Thi...

Cooke Telescope Tales - comet of 1882 seen from India with a Cooke telescope theramblingastronomer.blogspot.com/2025/10/cook... #astronomy #york

Cooke Telescope Tales - Cooke instruments were of the highest quality, but.... Cooke Instruments were of the highest quality but by the 1920s with a slump in trade around the world for optical instruments Cooke’s were ...

Cooke Telescope Tales - Cooke instrument were of the highest quality, but...... theramblingastronomer.blogspot.com/2025/10/cook... #astronomy #york

A little ramble through 19th century astronomy - How to find Uranus in 1865 Astronomical Register February 1865   Sir,- Some of your correspondents have asked for a diagram for the stars near the planet Uranus i...

A little ramble through 19th century astronomy - How to find Uranus in 1865 theramblingastronomer.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-li... #astronomy #solarsystem #planets #herschel

The Astronomy Show on Drystone Radio October 20th 2025

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A little ramble through 19th century astronomy - Leverrier and the French National Observatory in 1873 Nature,  June 19 th 1873 M Leverrier has entered on his new office of Director of the French National Observatory. The Observatory Board...

A little ramble through 19th century astronomy - Leverrier and the French National Observatory in 1873 theramblingastronomer.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-li... #astronomy #neptune

The Astronomy Show on Drystone Radio Join me, Martin Lunn MBE every Monday evening from 7.00 pm-9.00 pm on the award-winning Astronomy Show on Drystone Radio, probably the only...

The Astronomy Show on Drystone Radio theramblingastronomer.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-... #astronomy #astronomynews #nightsky

Cooke Telescope Tales - Cooke 25 inch lens tested On November 5 th 1867 the 25 inch object glass which had been so long in the making by Thomas Cooke of York was completed. This was the lar...

Cooke Telescope Tales - 25 inch Cooke lens tested theramblingastronomer.blogspot.com/2025/10/cook... #astronomy #telescope #lens

Cooke Telescope Tales - Leeds Astronomical Society visits Cookes in 1920 On Saturday afternoon October 9 th 1920 members of the Leeds Astronomical Society of which Mr David Booth is president and others visited t...

Cooke Telscope Tales - Leeds Astronomical Society visits Cooke in 1920 theramblingastronomer.blogspot.com/2025/10/cook... #astronomy #york

A little ramble through 19th century astronomy - Observations by Lord Rosse Academy Newspaper Saturday 6 th March 1880    Observations of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars made with the Six-foot and Three-foot Ref...

A little ramble through 19th century astronomy -Observations by Lord Rosse theramblingastronomer.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-li... #astronomy #ireland

A little ramble through 19th century astronomy - Cincinnati observatory in 1873 Nature, May 15 th 1873 The Cincinnati Observatory founded by Prof. Mitchell, is we learn, to be removed, and established in a manner wor...

A little ramble through 19th century astronomy - Cincinnati observatory in 1873 theramblingastronomer.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-li... #astroonmy

A little ramble through 19th century astronomy - New Star Catalogue in 1873 Nature, March 27 th 1873 The largest catalogue of stars that has ever been published in America is now about to appear from the United S...

A little ramble through 19th century astronomy- New star catalogue in 1873 theramblingastronomer.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-li... #astronomy #usnavalobservatory

The Astronomy Show on Drystone Radio October 13th 2025

The Astronomy Show on Drystone Radio 13th October 2025 open.spotify.com/episode/7IQr... #astronomy #astronomynews #nightsky

Cooke Telescope Tales - Occultation of Iapetus observed from Johannesburg in 1963 On October 17 th 1963 using the 6 inch Cooke telescope at x300 magnification at the Republic Observatory  in Johannesburg, South Africa ast...

Occultation of Iapetus observed from Johannesburg in 1963 theramblingastronomer.blogspot.com/2025/10/cook... #saturn #york

The Astronomy Show on Drystone Radio Join me, Martin Lunn MBE every Monday evening from 7.00 pm-9.00 pm on the award-winning Astronomy Show on Drystone Radio, probably the only...

The Astronomy Show on Drystone Radio theramblingastronomer.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-... #astronomy #astronomynews #nightsky

Cooke Telescope Tales - Drawings of the Sun by Frederick Brodie in 1865 In the classic handbook of Descriptive Astronomy by G F Chanbers there are drawings  from October 1865 showing a Great Sun Spot. The drawing...

Cooke Telescope Tales - Drawings of the Sun by Frederick Bodie in 1865 theramblingastronomer.blogspot.com/2025/10/cook... #astronomy #york

A little ramble through 19th century astronomy - Eclipse of Sun observed in America in 1878 Academy Newspaper Saturday August 17 th 1878    The observers of the total eclipse of the sun on July 29, in America, have been very m...

A little ramble through 19th century astronomy - Eclipse of the Sun observed from America in 1878 theramblingastronomer.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-li... #astronomy #moon

Cooke Telescope Tales - Unilluminated side of Venus seen from Nottingham in 1863 October 22 nd 1863  Turning my 6 inch Cooke telescope upon Venus I was much surprised to see almost the whole of the unilluminated disc ...

Cooke Telescope Tales - Unilluminated side of Venus seen from Nottingham in 1863 theramblingastronomer.blogspot.com/2025/10/cook... #astronomy #york

A little ramble through Dorado the Goldfish Dorado is a modern constellation in the southern hemisphere it cannot be seen from Britain.   Dorado was one of twelve constellations name...

A little ramble through Dorado the Goldfish theramblingastronomer.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-li... #astronomy #constellations

A little ramble through 19th century astronomy - The Andromedid meteor shower of 1872 seen from Jamaica Nature, March 6 th 1873 The shower of meteors on the night of November 27rh 1872 was evidently well seen from Europe, as I had anticipat...

A little ramble through 19th century astronomy - The Andromedid meteor shower seen in 1872 from Jamaica theramblingastronomer.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-li... #astronomy #shootingstars #comets

A little ramble through 19th century astronomy - Change in a Nebula The variations in the appearance of a nebula to different eyes and with different telescopes make it very difficult to establish a physical ...

A little ramble through 19th century astronomy - Change in a Nebula theramblingastronomer.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-li... #astronomy

The Astronomy Show on Drystone Radio October 6th 2025

The Astronomy Show on Drystone Radio October 6th 2025 open.spotify.com/episode/173t... #astronomy #astronomynews #nightsky

Cooke Telescope Tales - BA meeting in York in 1881 Messrs Thomas Cooke and Sons of York had a display of scientific instruments for the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement ...

Cooke Telescope Tales - BA meeting in York in 1881 theramblingastronomer.blogspot.com/2025/10/cook... #astronomy #telescopes

The Astronomy Show on Drystone Radio Join me, Martin Lunn MBE every Monday evening from 7.00 pm-9.00 pm on the award-winning Astronomy Show on Drystone Radio, probably the only ...

The Astronomy Show on Drystone Radio theramblingastronomer.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-... #astronomy #astronomynews #nightsky

Cooke Telescope Tales - 50 years of service at Cookes In August 1947 a social evening was held to commemorate the retirement of 5 veteran craftsmen at Cookes. Messrs A Harrison, T Dwyer, C Grew...

Cooke Telescope Tales - 50 years of service at Cookes theramblingastronomer.blogspot.com/2025/10/cook... #astronomy #york

Rambling Astronomer taking a short break I will be taking a break from Saturday 20th September until Saturday 4th October. I will be visiting the gamma quadrant, I will however be b...

Rambling Astronomer taking a short break theramblingastronomer.blogspot.com/2025/09/ramb... #astronomy

A little ramble through 19th century astronomy - The Moon covered in salt an 1873 view Nature January 23 rd 1873 The Moon’s Surface May not the white, telescopic appearance of the moon’s surface, resembling snow in many p...

A little ramble through 19th century - The Moon covered in salt an 1873 view theramblingastronomer.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-li... #astronomy

A little ramble through Delphinus the Dolphin Delphinus the Dolphin is a small constellation that can be seen in the summer months close to the star Altair one of the summer triangle st...

A little ramble through Delphinus the Dolphin theramblingastronomer.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-li... #astronomy #constellation #myth #legend

Cooke Telescope Tales - Comet Gale 1912 discovered with a Cooke telescope Derby Daily Telegraph Tuesday 15 th October 1912     Gale’s Comet has been well seen with the 6in. equatorial at Mr. F. J. Hanbury's ...

Cooke Telescope Tales - Comet Gale 1912 discovered with a Cooke telescope theramblingastronomer.blogspot.com/2025/09/cook... #astronomy #york