Algarve Skies

By CLIVE JACKSON features@algarveresident.com Clive Jackson is an amateur astronomer and an imagineer who does his best to understand the universe. He is also the director of the Astronomical Observatory

By Clive Jackson features@algarveresident.com Clive Jackson is an amateur astronomer and an imagineer who does his best to understand the universe. He is also the director of the Astronomical Observatory

By CLIVE JACKSON features@algarveresident.com Clive Jackson is the Director of the Astronomical Observatory of Tavira (Sitio do Malhão, Tavira) and the Camera Obscura (next to the Castle in Tavira), specialising

By CLIVE JACKSON features@algarveresident.com Clive Jackson is the Director of the Astronomical Observatory of Tavira (Sitio do Malhão, Tavira) and the Camera Obscura (next to the Castle in Tavira), specialising

By CLIVE JACKSON features@algarveresident.com Clive Jackson is the Director of the Astronomical Observatory of Tavira (Sitio do Malhão, Tavira) and the Camera Obscura (next to the Castle in Tavira), specialising

WELCOME TO the May night Sky. This is the month when the temperatures at night get a little more comfortable and hopefully the April showers are behind us! The ringed

DURING THE long dark winter nights, the Milky Way will be seen passing overhead. This pale band of light is actually our own galaxy seen from the inside. It is

AT THE dawn of the 20th century, more precisely on December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright flew for the first time in a home built aircraft that barely managed

THE WHOLE Universe consists of cycles, from the largest galaxy to the smallest sub-atomic particle; everything goes around and comes around. The stars go through their lives in a very

EVERY TIME I watch the news on television more often than not it’s bad news. I know news agencies concentrate on negative issues, as it is more ‘saleable’ to the