DEEP SKY 101
Andrew Wood – with images by John Gould and Steve Jones When amateur astronomers set up their telescopes, what are the objects they aim to observe? The aim of this continue...
Monthly Archives: January 2025
Comet C/2024 G3 Atlas
C/2024 G3 Atlas was first discovered in April 2024 by NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System. It is an Oort Cloud Comet, thought to originate from a sphere of icy continue...
Sun reaches Maxima in July 2025
The solar minimum between cycles 24 and 25 (the period when the sun is least active) happened in December 2019, when the 13-month smoothed sunspot number fell to 1.8, according continue...
Observing at Tianjara
Tianjara is located 47 km south west of Nowra, it is a class two dark sky, and 768 metres above sea level. Tianjara’s only attraction is a large waterfall, a continue...