(Posted 25 October 2014) The Earth is only 0.9% the diameter of the Sun. I have read that so many…
4 April 2015 Total Lunar Eclipse Information Sheet
(Posted 24 October 2014) To assist you with your planning for this event, I have uploaded an information sheet about…
2015 Astronomy and Space Teaching Opportunities
(Updated 9 November 2014) This article provides a brief overview of the predictable significant astronomy and space events that will occur in…
My photo of the eclipsed Moon and Uranus taken with a camera on a tripod
(Posted 11 October 2014) After seeing the photograph taken by my friend’s eight year old son of the planet Uranus during…
How young can you be and photograph the seventh planet from the Sun?
(Posted 9 October 2014) How young can you be and still successfully photograph the seventh planet from the Sun? Turns out…
It’s a plane … in front of the eclipsed Moon (with photo)
(Posted 8 October 2014) My favourite photograph of the night. I lucked out and managed to capture an image of a…
Don’t ask me how the eclipse watching is going! :-(
(Posted 8 October 2014) Not sure where to start …. the cloud has eaten the Moon, my long life computer…
Two celestial events on the same night! Uranus at opposition and total lunar eclipse Wednesday 8 October 2014
(Posted 1 October 2014) I love celestial coincidences. In fact the only thing better than having two celestial ‘events’ occurring on…
Asteroid 2014 RC passes Earth tomorrow morning (with finder chart)
(Posted 7 September 2014) Asteroid 2014 RC will safely pass the Earth tomorrow morning at a distance of only 34,000…
Mercury and crescent Moon in the evening twilight (photo)
(Posted 27 August 2014) The cloud was kind earlier this evening and cleared above the Brindabella’s to allow me to…