Ghost in the Autostar
Recently, the Space Society of Kenya got blessed very much by a donation of a Meade ETX 125 telescope. It comes with a motorised and computerised mount, so that it can automatically go to objects in the the sky and…
The Left Shore of Darkness
“even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.” Psam 139 (NIV) Just before the New Moon in October 2025, 18th to 20th, I finally went to a place…
Olorgesailie III: Return of the Stargazers
I’m continuing my catch-up posts with this entry about another trip to the Olorgesailie Prehistoric site. If you haven’t yet, you might want to read the one about my first trip there last year first. Then I went again for…
Blood Moon
It’s been too long since I posted here, and so I have some catching up to do. I’ll start with the popular event that happened last month, the total lunar eclipse. It was called a “Blood Moon”, because it appeared…
Kenya Space Weekend
On the weekend of the 26th and 27th April, I took part in the Kenya Space Weekend, which was organised by Andrew Gakiria with his Kenya eLearning Center and The Outpost, Oloshoibor, Kajiado, and partnering with DarkSky Kenya and the…
Slides from International Dark Sky Week Kenya 2025 Webinar
Andrew Gakiria kindly invited me to do a short presentation about my actives in the International Dark Sky Week Kenya 2025 Webinar, 04/04/2025, which I gladly did. I was mostly talking about preserving the night sky from an amateur astronomer…
The Turkanascope
It’s been a while since my last post, and I have several updates to tell about. In this post, I begin with a most exciting tale about a locally made telescope. With more to follow about other activities over the…
Kajiado Dreamin’
Last weekend, we went to the Olorgesailie Prehistoric Site in Kajiado, where fossilised skeletons and early stone tools some hundreds of thousand of years old have been found. Our traveling party was comprised of my family, and our friend Shirley,…
Slides and pics from the UoN AstroNight
Here are the slides from my talk “Astrotourism and Beyond: Kenya’s Equatorial Gateway to the Stars” at the UoN AstroNight yesterday: And here are some pics from the talk and the skywatching after, from the roof of the physics building.…
UoN AstroNight: Astrotourism and Beyond: Kenya’s Equatorial Gateway to the Stars
This Friday, 11th October 2024, I have the honour be the guest speaker at the University of Nairobi AstroNight again. I’ll talk about current community activities in Kenya around astronomy and space, and then give an overview of Kenya’s general…