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Will Gater

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Will
Gater
News Editor
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Bristol
Bristol

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www.willgater.com
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Will is a journalist with the BBC's Sky at Night Magazine and has previously worked for the European Southern Observatory & ESA/Hubble Space Telescope press offices. He is a former news editor of Astronomy Now magazine and today presents Sky at Night Magazine's monthly vodcast.

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From Twitter.com/willgater (Will Gater)Managed to grab a quick 8 pane mosaic of Clavius & the rugged lunar south pole region last night: http://t.co/TciDuKiT #astronomy #Moon 4 February 2012, 1:55 pm
From Twitter.com/willgater (Will Gater)@DavidGHyde All depends on how good your eyesight is, whether you had the bins on a tripod, what the seeing conditions were like etc. 4 February 2012, 8:43 am
From Twitter.com/willgater (Will Gater)@DavidGHyde Technically, 20x50s should be able to resolve that separation. There may have been other factors that affected the view though. 4 February 2012, 8:43 am
From Twitter.com/willgater (Will Gater)@ojooto Thanks. :-) It was taken with a Meade 203mm Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope & a SPC900NC webcam with a Wratten #23A filter. 4 February 2012, 7:35 am
From Twitter.com/willgater (Will Gater)@DavidGHyde At 19:30 on 31/1/12 the moons Europa & Ganymede were separated by just under 30 arcseconds, to the left of Jupiter. @marcuschown 4 February 2012, 7:26 am
From Twitter.com/willgater (Will Gater)@Star_gazer1965 @cosmiclaire @paulwharton1970 @richiedeepsky @nealbw @NorthStaffsAS Thanks for the #FF shout-outs. :-) 4 February 2012, 6:58 am
From Twitter.com/willgater (Will Gater)@jpXT10 Thanks Jim. :-) 4 February 2012, 6:53 am
From Twitter.com/willgater (Will Gater)That orange 'star' sitting in the southeast at the moment is actually the planet Mars. Point a scope at it & you'll see a little ochre disc. 3 February 2012, 6:03 pm
From Twitter.com/willgater (Will Gater)@marcuschown @DavidGHyde What date & time was it David? 3 February 2012, 7:15 am
From Twitter.com/willgater (Will Gater)A five pane mosaic of crater Copernicus & its surrounding ejecta blanket, taken this evening: http://t.co/FyQu6Wme #Moon #astronomy 2 February 2012, 5:42 pm
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