Last week we had a mostly-Cassini Enceladus workshop in Leicester, UK, hosted by Nikolai Brilliantov of the University of Leicester. We invited Doug to join us, which he did- nice to meet the man himself in the flesh, finally! Here he is, showing off a sundial on campus to Andy Ingersoll from the Cassini ISS team (left) and Mark Perry from the INMS team (right).

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John

Thank you for the invite, and kudos to the workshop attendees for letting me sit in for a few hours. It was fascinating to see the scientific process in action, and a very commendable mix of openness to each others ideas, and responsibility in getting the science right.

I work only half a mile down the road from that building, and had been there a few times for meetings and seminars etc, but never when the sun was shining, so I wanted to see if this calendar-sundial was working (and it was!)

Yes, I've heard that solar-powered devices often have difficulties in the UK...

Sounds like good times, glad you guys got together.