Andrew Norton
Andrew Norton FRAS is professor of astrophysics education at the Open University and a former vice-president of the Royal Astronomical Society. He first visited St Martins on a family holiday in the early 1970s and came back every year for the next decade (sometimes twice a year). Since then, he
completed his PhD at Leicester University in 1988 and has worked at the OU since 1992. His current research focuses on time domain astrophysics from large-scale photometric surveys, including variable stars and transiting exoplanets. He has been academic consultant for several OU/BBC TV co-
productions and was co-author of the OU’s 60 Second Adventures in Astronomy videos. He recently published a book called Understanding the Universe: The Physics of the Cosmos from Quasars to Quarks which explores how all areas of physics, from the very smallest scales to the very largest, come
together to form our current understanding of the Universe. Andrew has an Erdös-Bacon-Sabbath number of 13. He's on Twitter as @ajnorton3.
completed his PhD at Leicester University in 1988 and has worked at the OU since 1992. His current research focuses on time domain astrophysics from large-scale photometric surveys, including variable stars and transiting exoplanets. He has been academic consultant for several OU/BBC TV co-
productions and was co-author of the OU’s 60 Second Adventures in Astronomy videos. He recently published a book called Understanding the Universe: The Physics of the Cosmos from Quasars to Quarks which explores how all areas of physics, from the very smallest scales to the very largest, come
together to form our current understanding of the Universe. Andrew has an Erdös-Bacon-Sabbath number of 13. He's on Twitter as @ajnorton3.
Carolyn Kennett
Carolyn Kennett FRAS is a writer, researcher, historian and astronomer who lives in Cornwall. She is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and forthcoming chair of the Society for the History of Astronomy, and her books include Sites of Prehistoric Bodmin Moor (2022) and Uranus and Venus (2022).
Carolyn is a regular contributor to Astronomy Now and the Society for Popular Astronomy. Carolyn writes archaeoastronomycornwall.com
Carolyn can be found on Twitter and Instagram as @carolynkennett.
Carolyn is a regular contributor to Astronomy Now and the Society for Popular Astronomy. Carolyn writes archaeoastronomycornwall.com
Carolyn can be found on Twitter and Instagram as @carolynkennett.
Ian Morison
Ian Morison FRAS is an astronomer who served as the 35th Gresham Professor of Astronomy, a post dating from 1597 and once held by Christopher Wren. Though a radio astronomer by profession, now in his 58th year at the Jodrell Bank Observatory, he has been a keen amateur optical astronomer since making his first simple telescope with lenses given to him by his optician when aged 11. He is a past president of the UK's Society for Popular Astronomy and in 1990 helped found the Macclesfield Astronomy Society of which he is now patron. In 2003 the International Astronomical Union named an asteroid after him citing his work at the Observatory. He writes a regular Telescope Topics column for Popular Astronomy and has made many contributions to The Sky at Night and Astronomy Now magazines. Cambridge University Press have published three of his books - most recently The Art of Astrophotography - and he also writes a monthly sky guide and articles for his Astronomy Digest: ianmorison.com.
Mark T Holmes
Mark T Holmes is a graduate Chemist with a long interest and involvement in astronomy, a member ofr the British Astronomical Association and a founder member of High Legh Community Observatory. Mark officially opened our observatory on St Martin's in 2019, and can lay claim to inspiring us to take our ambitions for an observatory on the islands seriously. Mark's particular interests are Venus, the Moon and Solar observation.
Mark offers practical and holistic support to the COSMOS team, and has been a key figure in encouraging us to build a grassroots community of astronomers on the Isles of Scilly.
Mark offers practical and holistic support to the COSMOS team, and has been a key figure in encouraging us to build a grassroots community of astronomers on the Isles of Scilly.