Herschel

Not sure if iPlayer is available down South - but those north of the border can catch it here:

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00jqj7q/T...Herschel_in_the_Red/

Nice job by Matt, the boss of all bosses on my instrument, SPIRE.

He's yet another one of the UCD ex-pat mafia on SPIRE

Message popping up fo us:

Currently BBC iPlayer TV programmes are available to play in the UK only...

Pity.

Michael.

It'll be repeated this Saturday on BBC 2 at 2:10pm. (You should check if this is accurate for BBC 2 NI though!).

Although we can't play BBC iPlayer files directly, you can download many Sky at Night episodes from: www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/skyatnight/proginfo.shtml . The latest is August 2008 - not exactly hot off the press, but better than nothing!

I only caught the end of yesterday's Sky at Night, so thanks for the info on the repeat.

Phil.

May 6th has now been confirmed as the new launch date:

herschelmission.wordpress.com/

Hi everyone.

After a bit of a scare with regard to the reliability of thrusters on the Ariane 5 third stage (which has now been resolved, thankfully), ESA and Arianespace had to push back launch to May 14th. Herschel and Planck are being integrated with the launcher as we speak (in fact, Planck already has - Herschel is following suit today, as it is sitting on top of Planck during launch).

Updates as always at: herschelmission.wordpress.com/

and via Twitter: twitter.com/astroboh

In other news - Spitzer is about to run out of cryogen. MIPS is already shut off, IRS to follow in the next day or so.

Clear skies!

Brian