Recent content by Bikersquirrel

Hi noob here :) I only recently managed to really get into astrophotography (kids often dictate otherwise i.e no time!), and decided to test run my shiny new camera on the super moon. I did manage to get a few reasonably good shots, but they were all a bit too dark. I looked.up some advice on...

And that is the very reason I pushed myself to learn so much as a child. Maths never came easy to me but Shakespeare was childsplay, and that fact drove me mad! Thankfully "it is what it is" became slightly more palatable as an explanation as I got older . . . . . . . I still like to try and...

By asking questions about how or why things worked/happened as a child and being told "because it just does", which was never enough for me. I want to know how it all works to the last detail!

I'm new here too and also an amateur with a keen interest. Like you I was 100% sure as a child that I was going to be an astrophysicist, but life doesn't run that course for many. So my humble advice would be not to try and rush it, and you only need to worry about the job prospects when you...

I go to the Academic Earth site a lot. The lectures are great and you can download them as podcasts too :)