Greencastle Hill, Antigua — A Tropical Stonehenge?
Once upon a time I was an ardent rock-climber with my eyes on the Matterhorn. So when I started married life in Antigua, one of the...
Starwatch: Star Showers
Although two partial solar eclipses occur in July- on the 1st and 31st – they are not visible from the Caribbean region. Visitors...
Starwatch
To many people, May spells potential doom because of the multi-planet alignments which occur this month and which are mistakenly believed...
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
To me, the full moon is at its ultimate, beautiful best when it rises over a Caribbean beach on a clear, star-filled night. Magnificent, a...
Celestial Manoeuvres
At the time of writing this article last July, the Earth had just had three relatively close shaves with asteroids. An asteroid named 2001...
Roses Are Red, Roses Are Blue…
Love songs and Valentine cards celebrate what we know — roses are red, violets blue. But, to some people, this suggests the question:...
Is there anybody out there?
When I found a copy of Carl Sagan’s Contact in a secondhand bookstore, and somebody gave me another Sagan book on extraterrestrial life...
Arawak astronomers
The possibility that Greencastle Hill in Antigua may be a “tropical Stonehenge” dating back to the Caribbean’s indigenous,...
