Tue, 27. March 2012
Lightning Strikes
Fri, 9. March 2012
My Future Light Cone
Unlike Alan Kohler's obscure financial graphs on ABC TV News, sometimes a simple graph can explain everything. In this case, a graph explained - to me - the entire Universe.
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Sun, 4. March 2012
Planet Hunting is Cool
Have I helped discover a new exo-planet?
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in Citizen Science
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18:54
Sun, 26. February 2012
Astrophotography without a Telescope - 2
The beautiful crescent moon setting shortly after the sun.
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in Camera & tripod
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16:26
Wed, 4. January 2012
Astrophotography without a Telescope - 1
I've been a bit slack with serious astronomy recently, due to so many scheduled observing nights being cancelled by inclement weather and more recently by ill-health, so I motivated myself to take some images from the front verandah, which has a fairly reasonable Westerly aspect. These images were taken by camera on a tripod, no telescope involved.
Many of my best astro-images have come without the aid of my telescope and below are the ones I took last night. The images are of our Moon, Jupiter and it's moons.
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in Camera & tripod
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18:14
Solar Observing - 1
I bought myself a new Lunt LS60THaPT Solar telescope last month, complete with EQ3 german equatorial mount.
Whilst I need to learn how to use it properly through the eyepiece, before expecting too much from attaching my camera to it, I couldn't resist taking some images with it. The results, after processing are not as good as I hoped but I am posting them here anyway. Hopefully the images will improve with more experience of the Etalon tuning and better image processing.
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Wed, 23. November 2011
Extreme Cosmos - The Talk
Bryan Gaensler, talking to Macarthur Astronomical Society on 21st November 2011:
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in Astro Forum: MAS
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01:03
Mon, 14. November 2011
So many UFO "sightings" ....
.... yet so little evidence.
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in Extra-terrestrials
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11:49
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