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@astronomer-mark.bsky.social

Broadcaster & Author exploring STEM through TV, radio, theatre & books | BBC Stargazing Live | Hon Doc from @UEA | Fascinated by sleep | office@josarsby.com

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Eclipse is on.. #SolarEclipse2025 #UK #Partial

29.03.2025 10:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Lovely montage Pete

14.03.2025 08:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Great shot Andy

14.03.2025 08:02 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Greatest Astronomical Discoveries | Norwich Science Festival

Hey all, I’m giving a lecture at the Norwich Science Festifal on Sat 22 Feb β€˜The Greatest Astronomical Discoveries’ norwichsciencefestival.co.uk/whats-on/the...

12.02.2025 19:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A cheeky go at the Megaminx on the train.. #micdrop

07.02.2025 20:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wet and cold but happy to be on way to #Cardiff to talk to Nikki Bedi and Huw Stephen’s on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live prog; 9am -10am. Pls do join us

07.02.2025 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BIG NEWS space fans & business buffs; guests are being booked in for recording of the pilot series of #CosmicCommerce and recording starts next week.. woohoooo

06.02.2025 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Stunning Moon halo this eve, Jupiter just to left

05.02.2025 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Humans can multi-tasking! True or false? What d’ya think?

31.01.2025 10:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

World Sleep Day takes place 14 March.. anyone got any sleep awareness events planned?

31.01.2025 07:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey Steve :)

29.01.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Moonrise

11.01.2025 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The magic of live TV… impromptu piece about Solar Parker Probe while visiting family away from home with none of my kit!! #AlwaysBeReady #Improv

28.12.2024 07:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Funky 10sec exposure with phone of my garden at night and even Lexi stood still long enough to be sharp!! #woof

21.12.2024 19:46 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New podcast for 2025., quite excited about this cosmiccommerce.libsyn.com

11.12.2024 07:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Day2 question for the #SpaceAdventQuiz was from @dallascampbell #2021Throwback

02.12.2024 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wow back in 2021 I ran the #Reach4AStar celeb advent calendar quiz.. will re run this Dec. First up for Day1 was a question from @reallorraine #SpaceAdventQuiz

02.12.2024 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah that’s them. There were even illustrations in some as no photos of some objects existed back then

01.12.2024 08:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Beautiful sky this eve… handheld pic using mobile phone. Not half bad this!! Can you spot Jupiter ?

29.11.2024 23:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have a couple of space β€˜tea card’ books!

29.11.2024 17:11 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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That bright red β€˜star’ to right of Moon this eve is Mars. They look close but Mars is 103 million km further away and its light takes 7 mins longer to get to us #UK #PleaseShare #GetStargazing

20.11.2024 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A few years ago I created a festive space advent calendar quiz with questions from loads of my chums.. who fancies me re-running that again this year ?

20.11.2024 14:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Back at ya

20.11.2024 09:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Always worth tuning in to this ace podcast

20.11.2024 09:25 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So it seems :)

19.11.2024 22:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You have one tomorrow, I have one Friday in North Norfolk :)

19.11.2024 21:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tonight's waning Moon. 80% lit and trying to burst through the clouds. If you have a clear sky you can see, to the left, the Gemini twins, Castor and Pollux #astronomy #astrophotography #MoonHour

19.11.2024 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 111    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Nice image

19.11.2024 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And hopefully the engagement will come back. It’s really died off on X of late

19.11.2024 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Who else is new here ?

19.11.2024 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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