Tony's star discovered

Hello readers, welcome back to Ie churnal. Apologies for the recent absence of new content in this popular blog. I feel that I should explain the cause of this... you see what happened was our sinclair spectrum power supply suffered an irreparable hardware failure (after Natty conducted another of his experiments). Anyway to cut a long story short, we've been waiting for a replacement to appear in the Wick auctions for quite some time now which has taken rather longer than expected. However I'm delighted to say I finally found one last Wednesday and outbid everyone including Wullie Sinclair and Chaimig to get hold of one for the princely sum of 25 quid and 17 pence.

I managed to get some ace games bundled in with it too 'Ant attack' and 'Horace goes skiing', hows that for a bargain!!!! I'm afraid the acquisition of those games also explains the extra delay of a few days since I got the power supply fitted. Ow vow i'd forgotten how addictive Horace goes skiiing is!

Anyway of course its me your very own Toney McFellman ( recently appointed astronomer royale of Bower, Wick and the surrounding areas including Ulpster but excluding Lypster, Dunbeath and Latheron Wheel who still fall within Ade's juristiction). Anyway, I'm extremely proud to bring to the churnal some exciting news from the very cusp of Astronomy in a rare scoop for ie churnal.

I, Tony Fellman, have managed to discover a brand new star. I have consulted that guy off telly who wears a monocle and he agrees with me! At least I think it was him, anyway I'm sure 'new scientist' will soon be contacting me for an interview. But remember you heard it here first! I have to say I'm very proud of my discovery as I managed to spot it with my naked eye. I was using the refraction of the light bending right around the earth through the air in order to observe the southern skies above New Zealand when I suddenly noticed a star I hadn't seen before. It was quite faint and a sort of twinkling white colour. By counting the twinkles I have been able to estimate that the star has at least 8 Jupiter sized gas giants orbiting around it. Anyway, I shall keep you up to speed with any further observations I manage to observe.

Tony
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