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Skiing the Jagungal Wilderness – almost K2K (Aug 2014)

What an epic trip.. nine days back country skiing in the Australian ‘Alps’. Who’d have thought such a long, remote…

Kiandra to Kosciuszko (K2K) Ski Tour Planning Notes

Trip Planning for Kiandra to Kosciuszko (K2K) Kiandra to Kosciuszko is Australia’s classic long-distance ski tour, dating back to around…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…