Adventures: a blog about rambling about the Universe.
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Cockatoo Island
It is an Island in Sydney Harbor that formally was the Naval Shipyard. I also housed convicts in the early British colonization of Australia.
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OZ- Nightscapes
Some photos take of the night sky. They depict a part of the sky not seen from northern latitudes.
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Coonabarbran
This is near Siding Springs. way out beyond the “Black Stump”.
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Sydney 2023
I made a trip down under. Here are a few photos from the trip. The first series are from Circular Quay and the harbor area. In the photo are Gary, Betty, Mai and Dave. No doubt as where we are.
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Sunrise March 11
We had good sunrise the morning of the 11. One thing of note is the Lenticular cloud above some of the higher mountains. The zoomed in photo shows them above the Rincons.
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Sunset from Feb 24th 2023
Had some high clouds that produced a somewhat decent sunset. The sunset wasn’t as vertical as some of the good ones. I also captured some color about 1hour after the Sun ducked behind the mountains. Jupiter and Venus are also visible in the photo.
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Really nice pack of SunDogs.
While driving back from the Chiricahua Astronomy Complex yesterday, I spotted this nice pair of sun dogs.
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Chiricahua Astronomy Complex
Spent a few nights doing some astronomy out at CAC. The snow on the Chiricahua Mts is almost gone. Probably be the last I see this season. We also had a moderately good sunset.
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Snow in Tucson
We had a very light dusting of snow here. Rare because it is in the desert, and we are only 32 degrees off the equator. You need to look hard to see it.
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A look at Orion’s sword
An attempt at photographing the region around Orion’s sword. This image was taken over two nights, Feb 8 and 9th. The equipment used was a AT60 telescope and the camera was a Canon60D. This all rode piggyback on a LX90. This is some old technology here. but being a visual astronomer, I can dabble without…
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