Once more unto the observatory dear friends once more....

Ahhh now an almost critical, possibly fundamental, requirement for your average telescope is the presence of light with which to perform the miracles of magnification. And apparently your average photon does not have the ability to pass through my lens cap...I ask you...photons today are just too damn lazy for your own good.

Lets face it why couldn´t they have found a back way in? the cheek of it. So having turned everything on, checked the cameras, verified the autofocus and made sure I had removed the roof...I am let down by the refusal of the light (which has, admittedly, been travelling for rather a long time without even seeing a Welcome break or having a cup of tea) to use a bit of initiative and find a way past the lens cap.

It could have knocked on the door and politely told me...

But fear not, having wasted a clear night last night I have removed the cap and set it all up again....and the roof....but can´t help feeling I have forgotten something else....hhhhmmm

Ohh is Astronomical Twilight the really expensive twilight?

I have been reading about dark matter and the differing theories by people, some of these contrasting.

I have decided that I too can jump on this band wagon and get a paper published but can´t be doing with all that research rubbish. I think I have it sussed you need fulfill the following points:-

1. Cool Name that the newspapers can throw around

2. Make sure there is no really easy way to confirm its existence.

3. Chuck in a few big words and an “Artists Impression” of a star with stuff being sucked into it.

So….I propose “Dark Stars” yes Dark matter is really just a lot of old dead stars that aren´t emitting anything and have basically got lost on the way home from the pub. This fills the first two criteria perfectly.

Next we just add in a black picture with an ever so slightly less black circle indicating our artists impression of what a “Dark Star” may look like. I will then state that on the 27th August a Dark star will be the closest it has been to the Earth for ages and we will be able to “see” it if we all shine a big torch each at Mars…I could do an impressive power point and everything.

This could be a whole new theory line, I could bring a new one out every couple of months….Dark planets, Dark comets….and then I could add a new range…Out of phase stars the light exists in one universe and the gravitational effects in this…hhhmm

What would happen if we could get the whole of the UK to stand outside with torches and point them up and turn them on…perhaps we could blind a passing alien…

I hope that by now you have realized what a waste reading this blog was but fear not! Whilst you have been reading this I was robbing your house!

Aahhh till next time and remember a removed lens cap is a happy lens cap.

NC