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Jeepers! What a post!
Uhmm.. as far as I'm aware, Mike Salway is not a professional astronomer, and has not trained as one. My guess is that he has no related qualifications either. I might be wrong.
So... given that, OF COURSE he is going to plagiarise certain works to satisfy the requirement that AS&T have put on him - or he has offered. What's wrong with that? He's not a pro - just interested like the rest of us. He does get his name mentioned more than most and good luck to him. Some of us like to hang our names out there and hope to have colleagues respond favourably - Mike is one of these. I don't have a problem with that and if I wanted to be noticed and/or respected for the effort I'd put in I'd do the same. No big deal! There are numerous others here who have been published in a magazine or newspaper - me included. It's nice getting to have a say without others trying to find fault.
The subject has been commonly spoken of - so nothing anyone is going to say will be unique.
Mike - I enjoyed the article anyway.
Cheers
Chris
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