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The barefoot astronomer blog is "a story of science, engineering and a continent called Africa," says Simon Ratcliffe. He is one of a team of engineers who are developing the software that will process and store the vast amounts of data from the MeerKAT telescope. Simon finds radio astronomy appealing because of the way it marries pure science with engineering challenges.
"I hope to use this blog to showcase our work that is not only doing better science and building better radio telescopes, but also building a better tomorrow for our country and the continent as a whole," he says.
Simon blogs at barefootastronomer.com and tweets at @BFAstro.
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