Lunar Eclipses are a simple yet beautiful phenomenon. All you’re watching is the moon passing behind Earths shadow, blocking light from the sun as it orbits the Earth. Compared to continue...
The following describes objects in our night sky for September and is especially written for beginning observers. If you do not own a telescope, the club Observatory has a 100mm continue...
The following describes objects in our night sky for August and is especially written for beginning observers. If you do not own a telescope, the club Observatory has a 100mm continue...
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...