Personal Interests - Dr. Andrew K. Black

ASTRONOMY AND ASTROLOGY

I have always been interested in celestial mechanics, particularly with regard to the solar system, and have whiled away many happy hours writing software to calculate accurate planetary positions. Observation of the planets is easy if you know when and where to look for them. I use a pair of binoculars, either 8 X 32 or 20 X 50. Observation of the night sky is easier when the moon is not near full. The site at NASA provides a good start.

Venus and Jupiter near Conjunction 22nd Feb 1999

For Astrology please start by visiting Astrology in the Age of Aquarius which now hosts Ephemerides from 1891 to 2100 AD, Tables of Houses, a quick horoscope calculator, work on relationship charts and world lines, together with links to other sites. You can now download free Astrology Software from this site, if you want to understand your personality from your Horoscope, interpreted in terms of Freudian and Jungian Psychology. Just click on the lake to go there!

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

I have always been fascinated by the nature of time, and in a model of human existence that allows for life after death, the reality of near-death experiences, precognitive dreams and the like. If you can get hold of a copy of a copy of J. W. Dunne's book, "An Experiment with Time", published by Faber in 1958, you will be off to a good start. More to follow here in due course!