A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Secret Game that Revolutionised the War Collection_Astronomy Photographer of the Year Senior Manager of Public Astronomy

Senior Manager of Public Astronomy at Royal Museums Greenwich

Date: 1588

The panorama covers the entire galaxy visible from planet Earth

it could not prevent the spirit of revolution from reaching its ships

I set my intervalometer to 3 minute intervals and shot the moon at a speed of 1/160th or 1/100th second to freeze the motion of the Moon

A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Secret Game that Revolutionised the War Collection_Astronomy Photographer of the Year Senior Manager of Public Astronomy1941. The Battle of the Atlantic is a disaster. Thousands of supply ships ferrying vital food and fuel from North America to Britain are being torpedoed by German U boats. Britain is only weeks away from starvation and with that, crushing defeat. In the first week of 1942 a group of unlikely heroes a retired naval captain and a clutch of brilliant young women gather to form a secret strategy unit. On the top floor of a bomb bruised HQ in Liverpool,