Last of the summer outfits and Visions of the Universe

Shirt - TopShop via a charity shop, Jeans - Gap, Sunglasses - Ray-Ban

Sigh. Look how nice and sunny this photo from Saturday is. I hope this wasn't the last day of summer. Especially since the Bermondsey Street Festival isn't until the 21st September. It really needs to be good weather because Vauxhall  City Farm are coming and they are bringing an alpaca.

Star Trails, Blue Mountains © Ted Dobosz, 2009. Canon 40D DSLR camera with Tamron 17-mm lens at f/3.5

The photo of me was taken on a picnic in Greenwich Park after seeing the Visions of the Universe exhibition, where I rediscovered my childhood love of all things space.  Is 28 too old to start training to be an astronaut?

Things I learnt at Visions of the Universe:

• There is probably rainfall of small diamonds on Neptune and Uranaus.
• ‘Deep Space’ is everything beyond our solar system
• NASA and co. are not very good at naming space things. For example, there is a Crab Nebula, a Black Eye galaxy and the state-of-the art telescope currently being developed called the European Extremely Large Telescope. Orginal.
• Astronomers look at photographs in the negative as it is easier to see faint stars,
• The constellations in the Southern Hemisphere all have newer names (the Greeks couldn’t see them to name them).
• If you take a photo of the night sky from earth on a long enough exposure to see stars, you will just get a sky full of circles as the exposure track the earth’s rotation (like the photo above). Modern telescopes move with the rotation to take a sharp picture.