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  • Cockatoo Island

    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.

  • OZ- Nightscapes

    OZ- Nightscapes

    Some photos take of the night sky. They depict a part of the sky not seen from northern latitudes.

    Milkey Way with a couple of nearby galaxies.
    Moon and Venus. Note the much different orentaion of these as compaired to viewes from the northern hemisphere.
    Rho Ophiuchus
    The Emu
  • Coonabarbran

    Coonabarbran

    This is near Siding Springs. way out beyond the “Black Stump”.

    We cam across this cool pottery shop off the beaten path. Like about 5 miles down a dirt road.
    4 foot lizard. They call them “Go-annas”.
    This sculpture was up near the AAT.
    A view into Warrembungles State Park from up near the AAT.
    The AAT.
    Along the path up to White Gum Lookout.
    From White Gum Lookout in Warrembungles SP.
    We saw some Emus in the wild but there were at a farm.
    Ant had cleared this pathwar for a few hundred meters.
  • Sydney 2023

    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.

    Sydney has a real nice biotonical Garden. This is a Echidna. A type of monotreme.
    THe “Rocks”
    Some well Used steps
  • Sunrise March 11

    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.

    A panorama of the sunrise
    Zoomed in as to allow seeing some of the Lenticular clouds.
  • Sunset from Feb 24th 2023

    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.

    Panorama
    Zoomed in a little
    Jupiter above Venus
  • Really nice pack of SunDogs.

    Really nice pack of SunDogs.

    While driving back from the Chiricahua Astronomy Complex yesterday, I spotted this nice pair of sun dogs.

  • Chiricahua Astronomy Complex

    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.

  • Snow in Tucson

    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.

  • 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 spending a large amount of money.