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Conjunction Colours

The last few nights have held a lovely conjunction with Mars, Saturn and the bright star Spica forming a striking triangle in the evening sky. Although Mars and Saturn are…

Melbourne Moon at the 2012 David Malin Awards

After nine weeks in the Yukon earlier this year to photograph the Northern Lights, followed by some extended travels, I finally returned home to the pleasant surprise of winning the…

Conjunction at The Dish

At the Central West Astronomical Society’s 2012 Astrofest and David Malin Awards. Headed straight out to ‘The Dish’ on Friday night to setup some gear for the morning conjunction. Of…

Mt Niles in the Twilight and Moonlight

These two images of Mt Niles were captured from the Scott Duncan Memorial Hut, on the last and coldest night of the Wapta Traverse Ski Trek in the Canadian Rockies…

Transit of Venus at Sunrise from Leipzig

  Even by my standards, this was a crazy 40 hours to capture the transit of Venus in Leipzig on Wednesday 6th June 2012. But I wouldn't get another chance in…

The Venus and Jupiter Show

In early 2012 I spent nine weeks based in Canada’s Yukon Territory on the biggest astronomy and photography adventure I’ve ever tackled. The primary reason for going all the way…

Chasing Aurora in the Yukon: Week 9

Well my nine weeks chasing aurora in the Yukon has come to an end. A happy end. Here’s the (long) final blog for the series, until such a time as…

Chasing Aurora in the Yukon: Week 6

Aside from drowning in data on a completely inadequate netbook computer, things in the Yukon are going well. My second New Moon has come and gone, but I have a…

Chasing Aurora in the Yukon: Week 3

The Aurora Returns After nearly two weeks waiting for the Full Moon to come and go, things are getting hectic again. Sunday night (12th Feb) was the first great aurora…

Chasing Aurora in the Yukon: Week 1

  Leaving Home in a post-Cooinda Hurry 20th January, the day I left Melbourne, I woke to a text message alerting me to the news that there had a been…

Six days of Comet Lovejoy

Following my attempts to photograph Comet Lovejoy before Christmas, I also managed to record some timelapse sequences over six consecutive mornings after Christmas. All this while I was Summer Camp…

40 Orionid Meteors – 23rd October 2011

Last weekend at the Lake Eppalock retreat in central Victoria, I tried to repeat the process that got me this previous image of the Geminid meteors in 2009. However since…

Comet Lovejoy – Christmas Comet of 2011

Comet Lovejoy - the Christmas Comet

Lightning and a Lunar Eclipse: 10th December 2011

We just had an eclipse in July, but the next one is not till 2014 so I wanted to make the most of this one. A number of looming deadlines…