Click the picture on the left to see more pictures of how our visit to the RAF Museum.
Wednesday, September 01. 2010
Stars in our eyes
While we were at Curry's looking at laptops for Nicola (see next story) we saw some real "bad boy" telescopes that were surprisingly cheap for what they were. We couldn't resist the temptation and are now the owners of a real big "bad boy" Celestron AstroMaster 130EQ telescope.
Reviews state that you can see the moons of Jupiter and the rings of Saturn.
There are several You Tube Videos relating to this particular piece of equipment. This one shows how to assemble the telescope!
Reviews state that you can see the moons of Jupiter and the rings of Saturn.
There are several You Tube Videos relating to this particular piece of equipment. This one shows how to assemble the telescope!
Tuesday, June 29. 2010
Who Pulled The Plug Out?
One billion gallons of water are being drained out of Chasewater’s reservoir, to allow essential safety improvements to the reservoir to take place.
A team of reservoir experts and representatives from Lichfield District Council on Monday 1 February 2010 opened the valves, to allow around one billion gallons of water to drain out of Chasewater reservoir.
The reservoir is being drained in preparation for a major programme of safety improvements to Chasewater's eastern dam. These works will make sure the dam remains safe for years to come. Click the photograph to view my album.
Monday, May 31. 2010
Lichfield Bower
Saturday, January 09. 2010
All of my Photograph Collection is now available on the Intranet
After much research I was able to fulfil another ambition I have had for several years - being able to create a Picasa Style Photo Album on my Intranet. The problems with relying on Internet Services such as Picasa or Face book are:
Click here to view the photo album index page
1. Bandwidth. Every picture you see has to be downloaded.The Albums are similar in style to Picasa where you have thumbnails of albums, selecting the thumbnail brings up the entire album which has one medium sized picture plus thumbnails of the entire album. You have options to scroll forwards / backwards through the album or you can sit back and watch an automated slide show. Once the initial setting up was completed, the system is easy to maintain and new albums can quickly be inserted into the site.
2. Storage Space Restrictions. On your own hard drive(s) there are no storage constraints.
3. Relevance. If you put ALL your images on the internet, the interesting one's will be lost amongst the uninteresting ones.
Click here to view the photo album index page
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