Now is prime time for viewing the International Space Station pass overhead in the Southern Hemisphere. Thanks to a combination…
Toowoomba Flood Downpour Imaged From Space
Like everyone else who was stunned by the sudden and unpredicted Toowoomba Floods, I have been looking around for the…
Queensland Floods as seen from Space
The European Space Agency has released as its ‘Image of the Week’ an image taken by the Enviasat Earth Observation…
Watch a star ‘blink’ Saturday night
If you have a medium sized amateur telescope, Saturday evening you might like to set it up and watch as…
ESA Proba-2 satellite views Solar Eclipse from space
The European Space Agency’s test Proba-2 micro-satellite successfully imaged the 4 January 2011 Partial Solar Eclipse from low Earth orbit.…
Use just binoculars to find the planet with the ‘rude’ name!
For as long as I have been presenting planetarium sessions, saying the name of one of the outer most planets…
Space Station photographed crossing Sun during Eclipse
Yesterday saw more than the Moon pass in front of the Sun. Amateur astronomer Thierry Legault used the Calsky satellite…
Martian Moon Phobos from Mars Express
I just stumbled across this picture of the small Martian moon Phobos taken by the ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft. Pictures…
Partial Solar Eclipse Tuesday 4 January 2011
The first of six eclipses for 2011 happen tomorrow when a partial Solar Eclipse occurs over Europe, North Africa and…
2011 Moon Phase and Planet rise & set times added to site
I have updated this site with 2011 Moon phase information and 2011 Planet rise & set times. The Moon phase…