These notes are intended to provide a casual sky watcher or someone already into amateur astronomy living on the East…
Southern hemisphere
Look up and look out! Doomed NASA satellite and International Space Station visible in the evening sky
Update (17 September 2011): Since I made my last post about the re-entry of NASA’s Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), it’s…
Saturn, the crescent Moon and Spica make a temporary triangle in the evening sky
Saturn, the crescent Moon and Spica (the brightest star in the ancient Greek constellation Virgo the Virgin) will form a…
Make a Southern Cross finder and demonstrate how the stars move due to the Earth’s rotation
One of the first things that most people learn to do when they are getting started in astronomy is to…
Explore the Moons phases with an old fashioned flip book
Do you remember the old fashioned flip books? Here is a chance for you to make one with an astronomical…
This Weeks Predictable Sky and Space Events (23 – 29 May 2010)
These notes are intended to provide a casual skywatcher or someone already into amateur astronomy living in Brisbane, the Gold…
This Weeks Predictable Sky Events (9 – 15 May 2010)
These notes are intended to provide a casual skywatcher or someone already into amateur astronomy living in Brisbane, the Gold…