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Stuart
Atkinson is the author of six children's astronomy books - with
more to be published this year.
Local
schools in West Cumbria make use of his knowledge - he is a regular
visitor giving talks about astronomy and space (accompanied by a
strange collection of props - his faithful collection of meteorites
and "string" solar system!).
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Stuart
Atkinson is a regular on BBC Radio Cumbria.
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He
is also the Secretary of Cockermouth Astronomical Society, which
he founded ten years ago.
(Rumour has it that before CAS started, no-one from Cockermouth
had even looked at the night sky since the days of Cockermouth's
previous astronomer - the Reverend Fearon Fallows, who founded the
Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope in 1830.)
Stuart
is a regular on BBC
Radio Cumbria's Friday evening show. His astronomy knowledge
is tested by the phone-in callers and the show often features a
topical astronomy discussion.
During
the day, Stuart slaves away at Lilliput Lane's Workington factory.
In what little remains of his spare time, he tells us he enjoys
listening to CDs by angst-ridden female singer songwriters and telling
people to "STOP TALKING!!" in the Plaza cinema.
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