These notes are intended to provide a casual skywatcher or someone already into amateur astronomy living in the Australian Capital…
New ‘Earth & Beyond’ Teacher Newsletter now available
To assist you with your planning, the free Term 4 ‘Earth & Beyond’ Teacher Newsletter is now available for downloading.
ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft closes on Minor Planet Lutetia
The European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft is getting ready for a flyby of the Minor Planet Lutetia at 2:10 a.m.…
Watch live as astronauts park Soyuz spacecraft at International Space Station
If you happen to be up early tomorrow morning, you can watch live via NASA TV the Soyuz TMA-19 craft…
Partial Lunar eclipse animation
My good friend Tony Surma-Hawes in Brisbane has just posted a Youtube animation of last nights Partial Lunar Eclipse. It…
Montage of Lunar eclipse images
Thanks to a good friend of mine Tony Surma-Hawes for sending me a montage of last nights partial Lunar eclipse…
I wonder who had to duck?
According to the Calsky website , SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon test capsule decayed at 10.30am AEST today. There…
Closeup released of ‘hole’ in Moon
NASA has released a closeup image of a pit located in Mare Ingenii on the Earth’s Moon. The pit was…
Look up for falling rocket!
Update: 4.30pm AEST 26 June 2010 According to CalSky, the Falcon 9 rocket/Dragon capsule will decay from orbit at 4.30pm…
Partial Lunar Eclipse this Saturday
Even a casual observer looking at the Moon this coming Saturday night will notice that there is something not quite…