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Alan ThomasParticipant
I watched a recording of the AGM here in the wilds of Warrington this morning/afternoon. A good experience.
Thanks to all the people who put in the hard work to run the Association and to the organisers of the live stream.
Excellent presentations on the various topics too.
Alan
Alan ThomasParticipantDon’t worry – Boris will soon be there in hard hat and high-viz jacket!
Alan ThomasParticipantAnd, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time
(Longfellow)
Alan ThomasParticipantThe skeptics could be reminded that nature organised the distances and diameters of the Sun and Moon so as to yield total solar eclipses – a seemingly highly improbable coincidence.
Alan
Alan ThomasParticipantStan – If our two observations are indeed of the same event, that would be very interesting indeed! I am rather hoping that some BAA member who specialises in meteors might be able to identify the event in ‘the records’, if such there are.
Until 1959 I was living just a few miles from Wembley, in Ruislip.
As for the Cuban Missile Crisis, the night of Kennedy’s ultimatum to Kruschev is the only night of my life that I have gone to bed and genuinely wondered if I would wake up the next morning. Fortunately (for all of us) I did!
Alan
Alan ThomasParticipantI have just watched it. Very interesting. Also the presentation on the Unistellar eVscope.
Thanks
Alan
Alan ThomasParticipantWhat is the source document for the record for Ann Blethin 1614? It does not appear to be in the Ancestry database.
Alan ThomasParticipantJack
There is a marriage record showing Philemon Blethin married Susana Godwin on 21 April 1610 at Mathern, Monmouthshire. Source: Monmouthshire, Wales, Anglican Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1551-1994 accessible via Ancestry.co.uk.
Alan
Alan ThomasParticipantJack.
Do you have a date for the last known telescope he produced? That would narrow down the search for his year of death.
Alan
Alan ThomasParticipantGlad to be of help. I’ll see if I can find a burial record next week. I’ll probably have to go through the appropriate parish register if I can find it, as many of the entries have not been digitised. But it’s worth a try.
Alan
Alan ThomasParticipantYes, Mark, it was great to watch, very exciting and a brilliant achievement. Good to see how NASA involves the youngsters in their work – one of them spoke more sense than I have heard in a while.
Switching on my averted imagination now!
Alan
Alan ThomasParticipantHere’s a better match: Theodore Blethin, b. 14 Mar 1616, bap. 23 Mar 1616, Mathern, Monmouthshire, Wales. Father: Phileman.
Source: Monmouthshire, Wales, Anglican Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1551-1994.
And this looks very likely to be his daughter: Anne Blethen, d. 1657, buried 22 Feb 1657, St Andrew’s, Holborn, London. Father: Theorder Blethen.
Source: London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials 1538-1812 (London Metropolitan Archive).
Alan
Alan ThomasParticipantJack
The data are from England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, which you can access via Ancestry.com.
It’s an unusual name so they could be related – and it is the only close match in the database, although records are, of course, incomplete. On the plus side, the location seems good and Holborn was in an area where opticians businesses gathered. Possibly a grandson? Or possibly the date from which Blethyn is believed to have been active is awry?
All worth further work. I’ll have a root around and see what I can find if it will help – though I’ve no wish to get in your way.
Alan.
Alan ThomasParticipantThere is a birth record for Theodore Blethin, born 12 May 1701, Holborn, London. Parents Thomas and Anne Blethin. Could this be your man?
Alan ThomasParticipantHave you tried a little ‘impact engineering’ (thumping it with a rubber-headed hammer)?
It may not work but it could make you feel better.
Alan ThomasParticipantMaybe you should take up angling – and take your Dob along with you!
Alan
Alan ThomasParticipantMy AstroDiary records observations on 48 occasions, but there must have been many more naked-eye observations unrecorded as I walk out early every morning (except weekends). My focus has chiefly been on the Moon, planets and the Sun.
I noted January 5th as the 60th anniversary of my first recorded observation.
The highlight of my astronomical year must be the award of ‘Picture of the Week’ for an image of the Mercury-Venus conjunction in May taken with a Sony RX-100 in high winds! Most unexpected.
I was also pleased to get an image of Mars with some detail using a mobile phone camera on a 200mm Dob.
Various upgrades in mind for 2021 – and learning how to use a Canon 1100D!
Happy observing in 2021!
Alan
Alan ThomasParticipantThanks. Brilliant!
Maybe the BAA could put together a performance of its own ….?
Alan ThomasParticipantThanks. I will follow up your suggestions.
Alan ThomasParticipantThanks for those ideas. I have Rey’s ‘Find the Constellations’ which could be useful.
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