There is a reason I keep traveling to the South West of Nowra, it’s dark. If you need proof then look at any dark sky map online. Between Canberra and continue...
Whenever I hear of the possibility of Aurora being visible from latitudes as high as Nowra I immediately think about the scene in the Simpsons where Superintendent Chalmers questions an continue...
Earlier this month the club was contacted by a couple living in Parma. For several years they have housed a Bintel 12 Inch Dobsonian which has belonged to a gentleman continue...
Recent few clear nights allowed the opportuntiy to capture some data for the following photo of the Rosette Nebula. The nebula is a H11 region in the constellation Monoceros, about continue...
Friday the 28th of February marked the alignment of seven planets just after sunset. It was also a new moon which favoured a trip back up to the Tianjara Plateau. continue...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A large asteroid just zipped between Earth and the Moon Astronomers missed the asteroid until it was nearly on top of them, but the space rock has already passed harmlessly continue...