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Dr Tom Van Flandern (June 1940 - January
2009)
at the Port Angeles waterfront during
CCC2.
Photograph courtesy of Helen Workman |
With Sir Patrick Moore in his study at
Selsey |
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With friends at CCC2. Dr Louis Marmet,
Helen Workman, Prof Andre Assis and me. |
My book on Sir Patrick's bookshelf -
above his own autobiography! |
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Me doing my cosmology slide show "How Big
is Big?
A Personal Journey Beyond the Galaxies"
at the Botanical Gardens, Durban |
At the business end of Sir Patrick Moore's
famous 15" Fuller telescope |
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By elephant along the banks of the great
Zambezi |
Bradley's Meridian at Greenwich |
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Hard at work on my next book
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Where it all started - the 1st Crisis in
Cosmology Conference, Portugal, 2005
(CCC1). I
am centre front with clasped hands. |
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With Patrick, March 2010, for the launch
of The Static Universe. |
The Ark, Patrick's 1947 Ford Prefect |
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A montage depicting Patrick's famous
duet with Albert Einstein at Princeton
in the 1950s |
Which one is real? Patrick sitting in
front of the Madame Tussaud's statue now
in the foyer of the South Downs
Planetarium, Chichester. |
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The occasion was Patrick's 87th birthday
party. Prof John Mason gave a special
show at the planetarium (on the 2012
doomsday nonsense) in honour of
Patrick's birthday. |
Ptolemy was my constant companion at
Farthings in 2010, as he was on my first
visit in 2007. |
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Standing a few feet away from the
12-metre main mirror of the Southern
African Large Telescope (SALT) |
The
laser tower (top)
and
the edge of the mirror segments (bottom)
showing the servo motors beneath each
segment. They are trued up daily by
means of the laser beam. |
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