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…
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…
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,…
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.…
Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep? Job 38:16 (NIV) After some busy weeks — work (watch out for an update on the UTU Blog on Monday), a conference, a…
He determines the number of the starsand calls them each by name. Psalms 147:4, NIV Hello and welcome to this new blog. My name is Bastian, and I’ve always been fascinated by space. Until recently, that manifested mostly in my…
