Astronomy in Yorkshire
Welcome to Astronomy in Yorkshire, astronomy stories from England's largest county. By Martin Lunn MBE www.theramblingastronomer.co.uk
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 10 minutes
- Episodes
- 21
- Years Active
- 2021
The Devils Arrows near Boroughbridge
The Devils Arrows a line of three huge stones sometimes called ‘the three sisters’ there are suggestions that originally there were four stones.
00:02:57 |
Sun 02 May 2021
Sir Frank Watson Dyson the astronomer who brought us the 'pips'
Sir Frank Watson Dyson 1868-1939 was born near Ashby de la Zouche in Leicestershire who is largely remembered today for introducing the time signals or (pips) from Greenwich. Although not born in Yor…
00:05:27 |
Mon 26 Apr 2021
Henry Savile creator of the Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford.
One of the most prestigious positions in astronomy today is to be the Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford. You have probably guessed it was a Yorkshire man who established tha…
00:03:46 |
Sat 24 Apr 2021
Charles Green astronomer with Captain Cook
Charles Green 1734- 1771 was born in Wentworth South Yorkshire and would travel with Captain Cook to the south seas to witness the transit of Venus on the ship Endeavour.
00:06:29 |
Thu 22 Apr 2021
Alfred Fowler pioneer of modern physical astronomy.
Alfred Fowler was born on March 22nd 1868 at Wilsden on the outskirts of Bradford and would become one of the most important astronomers of the first half of the 20th century.
00:06:39 |
Mon 19 Apr 2021
Henry Briggs and Logarithms
Think of maths lessons at school think of Logarithms then think of Henry Briggs 1561-1631, if you didn’t like log tables he would be the man to blame and he was a Yorkshire man. Although he didn’t in…
00:05:52 |
Fri 16 Apr 2021
Henry Hindley maker of the first true equatorially mounted telescope.
The designs of telescopes would take a giant leap forward in the eighteenth century in Yorkshire, if Abraham Sharpe made what might be called an equatorial telescope the first true equatorially mount…
00:07:03 |
Wed 14 Apr 2021
Roger of Howden and the Milky Way
Roger of Hoveden or Howden in the East Riding, around the year 1192 wrote a general history of England from the year 732. He does make an interesting reference to the Milky Way, Roger says that the A…
00:03:08 |
Tue 13 Apr 2021
The York Obervatory
The York Observatory was built by the Yorkshire Philisophical Society in 1832 following the first meeting of the Bristish Association for the Advancement of Science at their museum, The Yorkshire Mus…
00:18:01 |
Mon 12 Apr 2021
John Michell and the Idea of Black Holes
A black hole does not have a surface, like a planet or star. Instead, it is a region of space where matter has collapsed in on itself. This catastrophic collapse is the result of a supernova explosio…
00:08:51 |
Sat 10 Apr 2021
The Wold Cottage Meteorite
This is the oldest known British meteorite in ‘captivity’ in a museum. It would prompt the first full scale investigation into meteorites.
00:07:41 |
Thu 08 Apr 2021
Anthony Asholm Almanac Writer
Anthony Ascham was born at Kirby Wiske near Northallerton (c1512-c1560) He studied at Cambridge in 1540 his subjects were medicine and physics, in 1553 Edward VI appointed him vicar at St Lambert’s C…
00:03:02 |
Tue 06 Apr 2021
Ernest Brown Mathematical Astronomer
Ernest William Brown was born in Hull in Yorkshire on November 19th 1866, he was educated at the East Riding College in Hull however while there he showed such an aptitiude for mathematics. Although …
00:07:12 |
Mon 05 Apr 2021
Alcuin of York
One of the greatest Saxon scholars, Alcuin (735-804) was born in Northumbria possibly in York itself in 735 , he would go on to become one of the best sources of information during the latter part of…
00:08:10 |
Fri 02 Apr 2021
John Goodricke and Edward Piggot The Fathers of Variable Star Astronomy
To think that Yorkshire or to be more precise the city of York would become the centre of the astronomical world might seem a bit fanciful, but that is exactly what happened for five brief years in …
00:34:01 |
Thu 01 Apr 2021
Thornborough Henges
We now travel back in time to around 3,500 BCE (Before Christian Era) to discover one of the most important ancient sites in Britain, this is the Thornborough Henges. They are located near the villag…
00:06:37 |
Wed 31 Mar 2021
Abraham Sharp Mathematician and Astronomer
Abraham Sharp was born in Little Horton near Bradford in 1653 the year that Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protector. Sharp would go on to become assisitant to John Flamsteed the first astronomer royal…
00:11:58 |
Mon 29 Mar 2021
John Field 1527-1587 Farmer and proto Copernican in England
John Field a farmer would become a trail blazer and was the first person to publish an ephemeris or movements of the stars and planets in England that was based on the Copernican theory.
00:08:11 |
Fri 26 Mar 2021
Edward Crossley and Joseph Gledhill astronomers of Halifax
The Hidden story of two astronomers and their telescopes from the Carpet town, that town is Halifax.
00:32:03 |
Thu 25 Mar 2021
Thomas Cooke Telescope Maker in York
This is the story of possibly the greatest telescooe maker of the 19th century.
00:34:27 |
Wed 24 Mar 2021
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