In December 2020, the planets Jupiter and Saturn will appear to almost merge as one to the unaided eye. The…
Measuring the sky ‘Cross staff angle measurer’
How do you measure where objects are in the night sky? To do this, astronomers possibly two thousand years ago…
(Photo) Tiangong 2 Chinese Space Station passes over Canberra, Australia during evening twilight tonight
(Posted 17 October 2016) Thanks to Heavens-Above.com’s prediction service, I managed to image China’s Tiangong 2 space station passing over…
-7 Iridium flare dazzles Southern Canberra (photo)
(Posted 11 October 2016) The Iridium flare dazzled Southern Canberra tonight as forecast by the highly recommended HeavensAbove.com website.
New ‘Earth’s neighbours to scale poster’ free to download
(Posted 6 October 2016) Go to this page to download the proper A3 PDF version of the poster.
Getting started in astronomy for $200 – $400
(Posted 4 October 2016) Given everyone’s mind is starting to turn to Christmas presents and buying a telescope, I am…
Canberra Space Camp planetarium presentation
(Posted 4 October 2016) I recently had the opportunity to present a number of portable planetarium programmes to (highly enthusiastic) participants, volunteers…
Say goodbye to Mercury and Jupiter (photo). The planetary sky show is over.
(Posted 4 September 2016) The evening planet twilight show has well and truly ended with both Mercury and Jupiter lost…
Look for Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and the Moon in evening twilight tonight
(Posted 4 September 2016) Don’t panic if you didn’t miss last month’s close encounter between Venus and Jupiter, don’t panic.…
Gotcha! Venus and Jupiter photographed during the day during close encounter (photo)
(Posted 28 August 2016) Image taken with Samsung Galaxy 6 mobile phone using the afocal photographic technique through my eight…