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		<title>Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2010 &#8211; the results!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Lowe&#8217;s stunning winning image &#8216;Blazing Bristlecone&#8217;. Credit: Tom Lowe Last night the results of the 2010 Astronomy Photographer of the Year awards were announced at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. You’ll have probably seen some of the amazing images in today’s press, including this great audio slideshow from BBC News and an impressive centre spread, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&amp;blog=2757830&amp;post=3272&amp;subd=willgater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A mega Omega Centauri</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Omega Centauri as seen by the WFI. Credit: ESO/EIS I&#8217;ve just had a new press release published over at the European Southern Observatory&#8217;s website. It&#8217;s about an image (above) of the stunning globular cluster Omega Centauri, taken with the observatory&#8217;s Wide Field Imager camera. Here&#8217;s a snippet from the release: This new image is based [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&amp;blog=2757830&amp;post=871&amp;subd=willgater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inspirational instruments</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Gater</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in early June, two colleagues and I from BBC Sky At Night Magazine went down to Selsey to make a short film about the recent renovation of Sir Patrick Moore&#8217;s telescopes. We were lucky with the weather and managed to spend a whole day filming in the Sun, surrounded by Patrick&#8217;s telescopes and their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&amp;blog=2757830&amp;post=409&amp;subd=willgater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Latest episode of S@N</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m manically busy at the moment so not much time to blog, but I&#8217;ve noticed that I haven&#8217;t mentioned the latest episode of The Sky At Night. It&#8217;s called &#8216;Double Vision&#8217; and is mainly about the Large Binocular Telescope (the LBT). The LBT is huge, has two whopping 8-metre mirrors and it looks like it&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&amp;blog=2757830&amp;post=341&amp;subd=willgater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Herstmonceux Astronomy Festival 2008 lecture</title>
		<link>http://willgater.com/2008/04/29/herstmonceux-astronomy-festival-2008-lecture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m very pleased to announce that I will be giving a talk at this year&#8217;s Herstmonceux Astronomy Festival, held at the famous Herstmonceux observatory in Sussex. The subject of my talk will be the science behind the Hubble Space Telescope&#8217;s greatest images. To find out more about the festival, which will be held on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&amp;blog=2757830&amp;post=126&amp;subd=willgater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NAM news 2: Massive starburst in the early Universe</title>
		<link>http://willgater.com/2008/04/01/nam-news-2-the-strongest-burst-of-star-formation-ever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Scott Chapman from the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge has just presented the latest results from a collaboration between the MERLIN UK radio telescope array, Keck (at optical wavelengths), the VLA in the US and the Plateau de Bure submillimetre observatory in France. The results show that there was a group of galaxies in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&amp;blog=2757830&amp;post=113&amp;subd=willgater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Farside radio astronomy one step closer</title>
		<link>http://willgater.com/2008/03/04/farside-radio-astronomy-one-step-closer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a long time astronomers (specifically radio astronomers) have wanted to place a telescope on the Moon. Now it seems that that desire is slowly becoming a possibility. NASA recently announced how it was backing a series of studies to investigate potential experiments for its &#8216;Next Generation Astronomy Missions&#8217;. Included in that backing is one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&amp;blog=2757830&amp;post=96&amp;subd=willgater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A step back in the right direction&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://willgater.com/2008/02/28/a-step-back-in-the-right-direction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is great news. Though as Johnathon Amos reports in his BBC online article we are going to have to wait a while to see what this means now for the STFC budget.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&amp;blog=2757830&amp;post=93&amp;subd=willgater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A glimmer of hope for UK astronomy?</title>
		<link>http://willgater.com/2008/02/14/a-glimmer-of-hope-for-uk-astronomy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UK research astronomy, space science and physics is currently going through a pretty rough time. This is due to an anticipated £80m worth of cuts in the budget of the Science &#38; Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) who fund much of the UK&#8217;s astronomy and physics research facilities both here and abroad. One repercussion (one of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&amp;blog=2757830&amp;post=62&amp;subd=willgater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UK astronomy under threat</title>
		<link>http://willgater.com/2007/11/22/uk-astronomy-under-threat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 21:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well this story is nearly a week old and I&#8217;ve been busy working so I haven&#8217;t had chance to blog about it; but I think it&#8217;s too important not to mention something about it here. It&#8217;s the news of a very worrying announcement made by the Science &#38; Technology Facilities Council. In order to save [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&amp;blog=2757830&amp;post=41&amp;subd=willgater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ESO Catch a Star</title>
		<link>http://willgater.com/2007/11/08/eso-catch-a-star/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The European Southern Observatory is running an international competition for students (in primary or secondary education) called &#8216;Catch a Star&#8217;. Entrants can either submit reports or artwork on an astronomical topic of their choice. The deadline is Friday 29th February 2008. Prizes include T-shirts, DVDs, posters as well as (for the top prizes) trips to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&amp;blog=2757830&amp;post=39&amp;subd=willgater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>South West Astronomy Fair</title>
		<link>http://willgater.com/2007/08/12/south-west-astronomy-fair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I spent an enjoyable morning visiting the South West Astronomy Fair at the Norman Lockyer Observatory in Sidmouth Devon. As well as a variety of trade stands selling anything from space-art, meteorites, telescopes and astronomy books there was an excellent selection of talks from the likes of notable astronomers Nik Szymanek, Dr. Robin Catchpole [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&amp;blog=2757830&amp;post=23&amp;subd=willgater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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