"We sent our sponsors, Anita and George off on a 'night out' to Darsham, home of DASH Astro Society and a designated Dark Sky Village in Suffolk. Being pensioners, they don't get out much, so they were very pleased to take their smart phones to Darsham and capture some photos of a rather beautiful waxing New Moon" - Joel Cairo CEO of the JPO 'the UK's most easterly Astronomical Observatory'.
" Strangely, George came back to the JPO all excited as, whilst standing looking at the Moon with his phone in his hand, he had had an idea of making a lightweight, low cost battery operated, star tracker for his Google 8a phone, from an analogue 240 volt -24 hour 3 pin timer switch. Jolene just smiled and said 'bless' but encouraged the 'old boy' to give it a go!" - Kurt Thrust current Director of the Jodrell Plank Observatory.
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