In addition, I’m passionate about the environment and its preservation and I enjoy spending time outdoors, either gardening or walking. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

I did get a pc when I was about 10 though, when they were very expensive relative to wages and we were not rich at all. Apart from astronomy, I am a keen collector of crystals and minerals (chunks of our planet, you might say), books (which explains Tucana Books), pre-decimal English coins (this ties in with my love of history) and Australian stamps. This book takes a fun look at the art of making shadows and provides pages of ideas of how to create even more exciting imagery.The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal. This later evolved into the Bradford Astronomical Society, and I was Secretary of the Society for around 15 years. Things I coveted but never got: that tree house thing with the green plastic canopy; of course, Mr frosty; soda stream; that tank thing that was around in about 1982 which had elementary programming buttons to make it go forward/ backward a certain number of moves.

To enable personalized advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. At around the age of five I was allowed to look through my father’s binoculars for the first time and I happened to point them at the stars. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. While they may have sentimental value, bibles passed down through the family are not often worth a lot of money. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).Those binoculars stood me in good stead throughout (indeed, I still have them) until after I left school, started work and purchased my first telescope at the age of seventeen. Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections—they may also appear in recommendations and other places. A book leaves our collection of over seven million titles and begins a new chapter every two seconds, enabling more goods to be reused. My continuing interest in astronomy took me into the realms of writing monthly night sky guides for local newspapers and appearing on local radio and television talking about all things astronomical.

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My walks generally take in the towpaths that grace the local canal network, although the odd mountain or two have contributed to the wear and tear of my walking boots! Turning off the personalized advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive. I have written a total of eighteen books, as well as being co-author and contributor to many others. In addition, during the 1980s I held the posts of Publications Secretary for the Federation of Astronomical Societies and News Circular Editor for the Junior Astronomical Society.

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