February 2025 Photo of Rosette Nebula
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...
Return to Tianjara
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...
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...
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...
Asteroid 2019 OK
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...
Jupiter Impactor
Astronomers Get the Goods on Jupiter-Smacking Space Rock By Mike Wall 3 days ago Science & Astronomy Looks like the impactor was an asteroid, not a comet. Image of Jupiter processed from images continue...
ExoPlanets
Amateur Detection Amateur astronomers can detect exoplanets from their back yards! While finding new planets is probably not possible from a backyard telescope, the professionals have a list of known planets continue...
Storm on Saturn
Massive storm pulls ices from Saturn’s depths Cassini spacecraft images show the development of the largest storm seen on the planet since 1990. On Saturn, not only are storms much continue...