Duncan Lunan

Duncan Lunan writes for The Orkney News

Duncan writes regularly for The Orkney News.

You can find all his articles by going to  The Orkney News website at:  https://theorkneynews.scot

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Orkney News Beginners’ Astronomy, Space Notes, The Sky Above You, Space Notes

and book reviews, in reverse order

by Duncan Lunan

Review, Ian McDonald, “Empress of the Sun”, 21st April 2024.

‘The Glory in Space’, 14th April 2024.

‘Space Notes 41 - April 2024’, 7th April 2024.

The Sky Above You, April 2024.

Review, Gareth L. Powell, “Embers of War”, Orkney News, 31st March 2024.

Review, Michael Cobley, “Ancestral Machines”, 24th March 2024.

‘When Shuttles Crash’, 17th March 2024.

Review, William S. Dietz “Into the Guns”, 10th March 2024.

‘Space Notes 39, March 2024’, 3rd March 2024.

The Sky Above You, 2nd March 2024.

Review, Jules Verne, “The Sphinx of the Ice Realm”, 25th February 2024.

Review, E.E. Hale, “The Brick Moon”, 18th February 2024.

‘Axiom Attic and Orbital Reef’, 11th February 2024.

‘Space Notes 37 – February 2024’, 4th February 2024.

The Sky Above You, February 2024.

Review, Gary Gibson, “Echogenesis”, 28th January 2024.

‘Green Green It’s Green They Say’, 21st January 2024.

‘Update on Spaceflight’, 14^th January 2024.

‘Outer Planet Updates’, 7^th January 2024.

The Sky Above You, January 2024.

‘Humour in Science’, 31^st December 2023.

‘’Oumuamua Part 2’, 24^th December 2023.

‘’Oumuamua Part 1’, 17^th December 2023.

‘Prestwick Spaceport Past, and Future’, 10^th December 2023.

‘Rocket Aircraft Part 2: Wings into Space’, 3^rd December 2023.

The Sky Above You, December 2023.

‘Rocket Aircraft, Part 1’, 26th November 2023.

‘Launcher Development’, November 19th, 2023.

“Launch Vehicle Costs’, November 12th, 2023.

‘Rockets, for November 5^th’, November 5^th, 2023.

The Sky Above You, November 2023.

‘Jeff Hawke, Part 4 – Not As We Know It’, Orkney News, October 29th, 2023.

‘Jeff Hawke, Part 3 – The Extraterrestrials’, October 22nd, 2023.

‘Jeff Hawke, Part 2 – First Citizen of the Space Age’, October 15th, 2023.

‘Jeff Hawke, Part 1 – Space Rider’, October 8th, 2023.

'Spacesuits, Part 2', October 1st, 2023

The Sky Above You, October 2023.

‘Spacesuits, Part 1’, September 24th, 2023

‘My SF, Part 2: Space, SF and Music’, 17th September, 2023.

‘Space Notes: My SF’, Orkney News, 10th September, 2023.

Review, Hugh Kolb, “Seven Stars, Ancient Astronomy and the English Public House”, 3rd September 2023.

The Sky Above You, September 2023.

‘Why I Don’t Play the Machines’, 27^th August 2023.

‘Lost on the Moon’, 20th August 2023.

‘Unbuild Your Own Solar System’, Orkney News, 13^th August 2023.

Review, Paul Beaver, “Winkle, The Extraordinary Life of Britain’s Greatest Pilot”, 6th August 2023.

The Sky Above You, August 2023.

‘The M.52 and the Douglas Skyrocket’, 30th July 2023.

‘Curiouser and Curiouser’, 23rd July 2023.

Shelfspace: David Gregory, July 16^th, 2023.

Book review: Stephen Baxter, “The Thousand Earths”, July 9^th, 2023.

Lunar Anomalies Part 2 – 1366 and All That, July 2^nd, 2023.

The Sky Above You, July 2023.

Space Notes: More Lunar Anomalies, Part 1, June 25^th, 2023.

Space Notes: The Ownership of the Moon, Part 2, June 18^th, 2023.

Space Notes: The Ownership of the Moon, Part 1, June 11^th, 2023.

Space Notes: The Lunar Farside, June 4^th, 2023.

The Sky Above You, June 2023.

Space Notes: Observing the Moon, May 28^th, 2023.

Book review, Ted Nield, “Incoming!, or Why We Should Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Meteorite”, May 21^st, 2023.

Book Review: “The Astronomer and the Witch, Kepler’s Fight for His Mother”, May 14^th, 2023.

Space Notes 10: The Earth from Space, May 7^th, 2023.

The Sky Above You, May 2023.

Book Review: Michio Kaku, “The Future of Humanity”, April 30^th , 2023.

Book Review: “The Women of the Moon, Tales of Science, Love, Sorrow and Courage”, April 23^rd, 2023.

Space Notes: Spacecraft, by Jupiter, April 16^th, 2023.

Space Notes: Capt. Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown, R.N., April 9^th, 2023.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Howlers that Weren’t, April 2^nd, 2023.

The Sky Above You, April 2023.

Space Notes: Art, Poetry and Music, March 26^th, 2023.

Space Notes: Scottish SF Writers, March 19^th, 2023.

Space Notes: Scottish Space Writers, March 12^th, 2023.

Space Notes: Solar System Exploration, March 5^th, 2023.

The Sky Above You, March 2023.

Book review: Derek Künsken, “The House of Styx, A Venus Ascendant Novel”, February 26^th, 2023.

Book review: Stephen Baxter & Alastair Reynolds, “The Medusa Chronicles”, February 19^th, 2022.

Space Notes: Balloons in Space, February 12^th, 2023.

Space News: Rotorcraft in Space, February 5^th, 2023.

The Sky Above You, February 2023.

Book review: Chris Lintott, “The Crowd and the Cosmos, Adventures in the Zooniverse”, January 29^th 2023.

Book review: Angus McAllister, “The Cyber Puppets”, January 22^nd 2023.

Book review: Kim Stanley Robinson, “Red Moon”, Angus McAllister, “Close Quarters”, January 15^th 2023.

Book review: Stuart Clark, “The Book of Mars”, January 8^th, 2023.

Book review: Florian Freistgetter, “A History of the Universe in 100 Stars”, January 1^st 2023.

The Sky Above You, January 2023.

Beginners’ Astronomy: The Star of Bethlehem, December 25^th, 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: The Southern Sky, December 18^th, 2022,

Beginners’ Astronomy: Space Observatories, December 11^th, 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Waverider, Part 2, Flight in Non-terrestrial Atmospheres, December 4^th, 2022.

The Sky Above You, December 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Waverider, Part 1, A Spacecraft in Waiting, November 27^th, 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Project Starseed, November 20^th, 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Space Stations, November 13^th, 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Yes, We Really Did Land on the Moon, Part 3 – The Later Missions, November 6^th, 2022.

The Sky Above You, November 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Yes, We Really Did Land on the Moon, Part 2 – On the Moon Itself, October 30^th, 2022.

Book review: Chris Hadfield, “The Apollo Murders”, October 25^th, 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Yes, We Did Go to the Moon, October 23^rd, 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: A History of Spaceflight, October 16^th, 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Howlers in Space, Part 3, October 9^th, 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Howlers in Space, Part 2, October 2^nd, 2022.

The Sky Above You, October 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Howlers in Space, September 25^th, 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: The Dark Sky, Part 2, September 18^th, 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Campaign Song for Dark Skies, with notes, September 18^th, 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: The Dark Sky, September 11^th, 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Variable Stars, September 4^th, 2022.

The Sky Above You, September 2022.

Book review: Stephen Baxter, “Galaxias”, August 30^th, 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: The Autumn Stars, August 28^th, 2022.

Eyewitness to History: Mercury Capsule, Glasgow Student Charities Week, 1964 – August 21^st, 2022.

Eyewitness to History: Shuttle Trainer, Houston, 27^th July 1986 - August 14^th, 2022.

Eyewitness to History (3): Challenger Liftoff, STS-41G, October 1984 – August 7^th , 2022.

The Sky Above You, August 2022.

Eyewitness to History (2): Discovery Landing, STS-41D, September 5^th, 1984 – July 31^st, 2022.

Eyewitness to History (1): Apollo through Binoculars, July 15^th 1975 - July 24^th, 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Archaeoastronomy from the Air, July 17^th, 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Visitor at Uist, or, What I Did in the Summer Holidays, 1959 – July 10^th, 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Sailplanes on Mars, July 5^th, 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Visit to Orkney, July 3^rd, 2022.

The Sky Above You, July 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: The Green Children of Woolpit, Part 2, June 26^th, 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: The Green Children of Woolpit, June 19^th, 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Epsilon Boötis, Clyde Tombaugh, Black Knight and STS-88, June 12^th, 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Epsilon Boötis Revisited, Part 2, June 5^th, 2022.

The Sky Above You, June 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Epsilon Boötis Revisited, May 29^th, 2022.

Obituary, Alan C. Evans, 1941-2021 – May 22^nd, 2022.

Obituary, Ed Buckley, 1940-2021 - May 15^th, 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: The Fermi Paradox, Part 3, May 8^th, 2022.

(Book review, DL “Children from the Sky”, by Bernie Bell, May 4^th 2022.)

Beginners’ Astronomy: The Fermi Paradox, Part 2, May 1^st, 2022.

The Sky Above You, May 2022.

Contribution to Bernie Bell, "‘I Think, Therefore I Am’ – René Descartes”, Orkney News, 29^th April 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: The Fermi Paradox, Part, April 24^th, 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, April 17^th, 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Sighthill Observations, April 10^th, 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Alexander Thom Star Dates, April 3^rd, 2022.

The Sky Above You, April 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Time by the Stars, March 27^th, 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Beyond Cosmology, March 20^th, 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Cosmology, March 13^th, 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Galaxies, Part 2, March 6^th, 2022.

The Sky Above You, March 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Galaxies, Part 1, February 27^th, 2022.

Comment: Reply to Bernie Bell, ‘The Nebra Disc’, (Orkney News Feb. 22^nd 2020), 26^th February, 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Planets of Other Stars, February 20^th, 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: The Milky Way, February 13^th, 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Novae and Supernovae, February 6^th, 2022.

The Sky Above You, February 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Winter and Spring Stars (2), January 23^rd, 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Winter and Spring Stars, January 16^th, 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Life on Other Worlds, January 9^th, 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Comets, Part 4, Comets and Spacecraft, January 2^nd, 2022.

The Sky Above You, January 2022.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Cometary Impacts, December 26^th, 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Comets, Part 2, December 19^th, 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Comets, Part 1, December 12^th, 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy: The Kuiper Belt, December 5^th, 2021.

The Sky Above You, December 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Pluto, November 28^th, 2021.

No publication, November 21^st, 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Uranus, Neptune and Their Moons, November 14^th, 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Saturn and Its Moons, Part 2, November 7^th, 2021.

The Sky Above You, November 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Saturn and Its Moons, October 31^st, 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Saturn and Its Rings, October 24^th, 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Asteroid Resources, October 17^th, 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Asteroids and Impacts, October 10^th , 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Asteroids, October 3^rd, 2021.

The Sky Above You, October 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Solstices, Equinoxes and Sighthill, Part 2, September 26^th, 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy: ‘Sighthill Stone Circle Reborn, Free Event September 15^th – September 13^th’, 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Solstices, Equinoxes and Sighthill, Part 1, September 19^th, 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy: ‘Sighthill Stone Circle Reborn, Free Event September 15^th’ – September 13^th, 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Jupiter’s Moons, September 12^th, 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Jupiter, September 5^th, 2021.

The Sky Above You, September 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Manned Mars Missions (2): August 29^th, 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Manned Mars Missions (1), August 21^st, 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Mars (5), Life on Mars, August 15^th 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Mars (4), Recent Missions, August 8^th, 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Mars (3): The Moons of Mars, August 1^st, 2021.

The Sky Above You, August 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Mars, Part 2, Mars and Its Weather, July 25^th, 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Mars, Part 1, July 18^th, 2012.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Precession, July 11^th, 2012.

Beginners’ Astronomy: The Stones and the Stars, Building Scotland’s Newest Megalith, July 4^th 2021.

The Sky Above You, July 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Atmospheric Refraction, June 27^th, 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Solstices and Sighthill, June 18^th, 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Venus, June 13^th, 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Mercury, June 6^th, 2021.

The Sky Above You, June 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Ancient Constellations, May 30^th, 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy: How to Find the Constellations, May 23^rd, 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Using a Small Telescope, May 16^th , 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy (7): Choosing a Telescope, May 9^th, 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy (6): Lunar Eclipses, May 2^nd, 2021.

The Sky Above You, May 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy: Moonrock, April 25^th, 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy (5): The Moon, April 18^th, 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy (4): The Sun, April 11^th, 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy (3): Co-ordinate Systems, April 4^th, 2021.

The Sky Above You, April 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy (2): Compass Points in the Sky, March 28^th, 2021.

Beginners’ Astronomy (1): Amateur Involvement in Astronomy, March 21^st, 2021.

The Sky Above You, March 2021.

The Sky Above You, February 2021.

The Sky Above You, January 2021.

The Sky Above You, December 2020.

The Sky Above You, November 2020.

The Sky Above You, October 2020.

Beginners’ Astronomy: UFOs and Aliens, September 24^th, 2020.

The Sky Above You, September 2020.

The Sky Above You (extra): The Perseid Meteor Shower, August 13^th 2020.

The Sky Above You: August 2020.

The Sky Above You, July 2020.

Celtic Cosmos: Space and Science Fiction, June 14^th, 2020.

The Sky Above You, June 2020.

The Sky Above You, May 2020.

The Sky Above You, April 2020.

(Sighthill Stone Circle: An Update by Dr. Kenny Brophy, March 27^th, 2020.)

The Sky Above You, March 2020.

The Sky Above You, February 2020.

The Sky Above You, January 2020.

The Sky Above You, December 2019.

The Sky Above You, November 2019.

The Sky Above You, October 2019.

The Sky Above You, September 2019.

The Sky Above You: Ancient Astronomy and the Sighthill Stone Circle, August 15^th, 2019.

The Sky Above You, August 2019.

The Sky Above You: The Moon Landing, July 20^th, 2019.

“From the Moon to the Stars”, July 9^th, 2019.

“From the Moon to the Stars”, July 7^th 2019.

The Sky Above You, July 2019.

The Sky Above You, June 2019.

The Sky Above You, May 2019.

The Sky Above You, April 2019.

The Sky Above You, March 2019.

The Sky Above You, February 2019.

The Sky Above You, January 2019.

The Sky Above You, December 2018.

The Sky Above You, November 2018.

The Sky Above You, October 2018.

The Sky Above You, September 2018.

The Sky Above You, August 2018.

The Sky Above You, July 2018.

The Sky Above You, June 2018.

The Sky Above You, May 2018.

The Sky Above You, April 2018.

The Sky Above You, March 2018.