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Hello! My name's Michael Peel. Welcome to my website! As you're here, odds are you already know me, so I'll forgo much description of myself and just sketch out the basics.
Current activities
I'm currently studying for a PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics at Jodrell Bank Observatory (now part of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics). I'm currently occupied by creating virtual cosmological skies consisting of the CMB, clusters of galaxies and more than a few point sources - active galactic nuclei and dusty galaxies that are too small to cover even a pixel on my maps. I'll then be observing these with a virtual telescope to see how well I can return to the original maps post-observation.
Hopefully at some later point in time, I'll be doing proper astronomy and observing the real sky. That's assuming that they finish building the telescope receiver I want to use.
I'm also interested in learning some of the history behind astronomy. Since I started my PhD, I've started looking into the history of Jodrell Bank, and have created a timeline of the various telescopes. I've also tried to record a few stories that I've heard about Jodrell that I can't find written down. Finally, I've made a list of news articles featuring Jodrell Bank.
Past activities
I completed an MPhys in Physics and Astrophysics in June 2006; lecture notes from this are on this website.
Me in Real Life
... aka what I do apart from astronomy.
I have a strong interest in computers (I've put some bits I find useful at Software and Jodrell computing) and have numerous websites. I also do a fair bit of photography.
My profiles on other websites include:
You
Here's a section about you! Well, actually, hopefully it's not about you. If any of the questions below do happen to be right, though, then please click on the link to see why they shouldn't...
... more coming soon (suggestions welcome).
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