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Partial Solar Eclipse at Lake Bolac

Canon 5D Mark II, 300mm lens and 2x converter, 1/250 sec ISO100

Lunar Eclipse at Maryborough Station

With this lunar eclipse starting low in the sky, I decided to try and capture an image sequence of the partial phases showing the type of photography that can be…

First Nights with the eMotimo TB3 (Review)

I first saw the eMotimo Tilt-Box motion control units two years ago, when a participant on my Night Sky Photography Workshops brought one along to play with. I could see…

Light Pollution – An Unnecessary Evil

Light Pollution over Melbourne as seen from Kinglake Light Pollution is an unnecessary evil, a sad result of poor lighting design. Light Pollution:

Zodiacal Light and the Gegenschein: August 2013

Any trip away from home is an excuse to find dark skies and interesting locations for night sky photography, and a trip to the Australian Astro Imaging Conference (AAIC) was…

Listening to Pulsars: The CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope

I was in Parkes, NSW in July for the Central West Astronomical Society’s Astrofest and the David Malin Awards, of which I was fortunate to pick up a couple. No…

Software for Night Sky Photography

Planetarium and other Planning Software Stellarium: Stellarium is a superb piece of planetarium software that renders a beautiful simulation of the sky at night (or day) for any time you…

A Winter Night at Heathcote

There’s nothing I love more than a cold, frosty and clear winter night under the stars. Central Victoria turned on two great nights on Friday June 7th and Saturday 8th,…

Dew Heaters for Night Sky Photography

This article describes a cheap, lightweight and effective solution to dew for night sky photography. One of the more annoying aspects of Night Sky Photography is dealing with dew. Particularly…

The Yukon’s Northern Lights

Image processing has got nothing on editing timelapse videos when it comes to consuming your life’s spare moments! Especially if the timelapse involve rapidly changing aurora and day-night twilight transitions…

Comet Hunting in March

Sunday 3rd March I went back down to Cape Schanck again, but this time rather than heading down to the lighthouse, I stopped on the side of the road looking…

Comet Lemmon (C/2012 F6) in February 2013

I’ve just come back from three nights running a Night Sky Photography Workshop at Lake Eppalock, and while I was supposed to be instructing, I was also very keen to…

Solar Eclipse in Queensland: 14th November 2012

Even though this total solar eclipse was 3000km from Melbourne, it was still on home territory which meant it was an opportunity too good to miss. So with some friends…

Valentine’s Aurora

It's been a long learning curve, but I'm pleased to have finally released my second timelapse video from my 'Aurora Adventures in the Yukon' earlier this year.