IAA and Comet Holmes

Firstly, I thoroughly enjoyed the meeting of the IAA last Wednesday. The meeting was well attended with 70+ members present. Dr Andy McCrea kicked off with a tour around the January skies - there's plenty going on up there, it's just that we can't see it at the moment due to the dire weather!

This was followed by the main event - Dr Paul Callanan from University College Cork delivered a most informative and entertaining talk entitled "Photons from the Invisible". This concerned the use of three different types of astronomy - Optical, X-Ray and Infra-Red - to provide evidence for the existence of Black Holes.

Here's Dr Callanan taking questions from the audience...



Secondly, I have created a YouTube video of my Comet Holmes observations...



Enjoy!