https://space-baguette.com/ A home baking and backyard astronomy notebook: sourdough, rye, long nights with a small telescope. en Mon, 09 Nov 2026 15:19:33 +0000 https://space-baguette.com/posts/moving-house/ https://space-baguette.com/posts/moving-house/ Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The notebook has a new address. Why I left the free blogging platform, what came across in the move, what did not, and where the feed lives now. https://space-baguette.com/posts/bakers-percentages-finally-explained/ https://space-baguette.com/posts/bakers-percentages-finally-explained/ Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Why every recipe here is written in percentages, and the one calculation that makes any loaf scale to any tin. https://space-baguette.com/posts/light-pollution-measured-from-the-back-step/ https://space-baguette.com/posts/light-pollution-measured-from-the-back-step/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Counting the stars I can see in one small patch of sky, once a week, for a year. The result was not what I expected. https://space-baguette.com/posts/andromeda-and-the-pleiades/ https://space-baguette.com/posts/andromeda-and-the-pleiades/ Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Two nights after a thin crescent Moon set early, 10x50 binoculars, a deckchair and the two autumn objects that look better in a wide field than in my telescope. https://space-baguette.com/posts/dark-rye-and-the-one-bake-i-cannot-rush/ https://space-baguette.com/posts/dark-rye-and-the-one-bake-i-cannot-rush/ Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A 70% rye loaf with coffee and treacle that needs a full day in the tin before you cut it, which is the hardest instruction in baking. https://space-baguette.com/posts/saturn-ring-rain/ https://space-baguette.com/posts/saturn-ring-rain/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A short NASA Goddard video about ring material falling into the planet, which changed how I think about the thin grey line I have been sketching all month. https://space-baguette.com/posts/saturn-rings-nearly-edge-on/ https://space-baguette.com/posts/saturn-rings-nearly-edge-on/ Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Drawing what you see instead of photographing it, and discovering you were seeing more than you thought. https://space-baguette.com/posts/the-four-minutes-i-did-not-drive-to/ https://space-baguette.com/posts/the-four-minutes-i-did-not-drive-to/ Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Three weeks after watching a 93% eclipse from outside the path of totality, I finally watched NASA's 2024 totality feed and understood what everyone had been telling me. https://space-baguette.com/posts/the-eclipse-trip/ https://space-baguette.com/posts/the-eclipse-trip/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A hillside in northern Spain, 93% of the Sun covered, and a baguette bought that morning from a bakery that opened at six. https://space-baguette.com/posts/perseids-from-a-field-with-no-name/ https://space-baguette.com/posts/perseids-from-a-field-with-no-name/ Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Forty minutes of driving to get two magnitudes of darkness, a thermos, a tray of focaccia and 61 meteors. https://space-baguette.com/posts/someone-elses-milky-way/ https://space-baguette.com/posts/someone-elses-milky-way/ Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Full Moon, street lamp and a thin haze have cancelled the week, so here is a four-and-a-half-minute Milky Way time-lapse from Japan that I did not film. https://space-baguette.com/posts/frying-pan-flatbread/ https://space-baguette.com/posts/frying-pan-flatbread/ Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 When the kitchen is at 29 °C and the oven is unthinkable, a yoghurt flatbread with starter discard, cooked in a frying pan in four minutes a piece. https://space-baguette.com/posts/whats-up-july/ https://space-baguette.com/posts/whats-up-july/ Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 NASA's three-minute July sky guide, with my notes on which parts work from a European back garden with a street lamp and which ones need a car. https://space-baguette.com/posts/short-nights/ https://space-baguette.com/posts/short-nights/ Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Mid-June, the sky never gets properly dark, the telescope stays in the cupboard, and two bright planets make the best of the twilight anyway. https://space-baguette.com/posts/overnight-focaccia/ https://space-baguette.com/posts/overnight-focaccia/ Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The dough that takes twelve hours of nothing and twenty minutes of work. It happens to be exactly the shape of an observing session. https://space-baguette.com/posts/first-proper-loaf-new-starter/ https://space-baguette.com/posts/first-proper-loaf-new-starter/ Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Ten weeks after starting a culture from rye flour and tap water, it finally made a loaf I would give to someone else. Notes on what changed. https://space-baguette.com/posts/lyrids-from-the-back-step/ https://space-baguette.com/posts/lyrids-from-the-back-step/ Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Ninety minutes in a deckchair on the Lyrid peak night, a crescent Moon that set politely, and a total of seven meteors I am prepared to defend. https://space-baguette.com/posts/a-small-refractor-and-no-patience/ https://space-baguette.com/posts/a-small-refractor-and-no-patience/ Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 What a 70 mm telescope actually shows from a suburban garden, and why the first three nights were a disappointment that was entirely my fault. https://space-baguette.com/posts/hot-cross-buns/ https://space-baguette.com/posts/hot-cross-buns/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Twelve Good Friday buns from a yeasted enriched dough, written as baker's percentages so I can halve them next year without a calculator meltdown. https://space-baguette.com/posts/light-rye-for-spring/ https://space-baguette.com/posts/light-rye-for-spring/ Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A 40% rye tin loaf for a starter that is barely three weeks old, plus a time-lapse of a rye dough doing what mine does too slowly to watch.