The two southern clusters discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1938 may be very small and they may be very faint - but what a delight to observe the two southern clusters discovered by the extraordinary young man who discovered Pluto.
This morning, after a night's observing, I cooled down with a cup of tea and watched Scorpius scuttle up from the eastern horizon. What a spectacular southern hemisphere constellation Scorpius is.
Owing to the encroachment of light pollution, sighting the gegenschein has almost become mythical and certainly makes me appreciate what an immense privilege it is to be observing under skies so dark and transparent that one can see faint, diffuse, oval glow around midnight.
Shining at magnitude 1.78 with a hot blue-white light, Gamma Velorum is nothing less than spectacular. Located about 840 light years away, it is a complex multi-star complex that contains the nearest Wolf-Rayet star to Earth.
After watching hundreds of Kalahari sunsets I saw the green flash yesterday evening and it was every bit as beautiful and exciting to see as I had imagined.
The “Baracchi 59” are the 59 unpublished visual discoveries that Pietro Baracchi made using the 48″ Great Melbourne Telescope during the years 1884-1888.
The two southern clusters discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1938 may be very small and they may be very faint - but what a delight to observe the two southern clusters discovered by the extraordinary young man who discovered Pluto.
This morning, after a night's observing, I cooled down with a cup of tea and watched Scorpius scuttle up from the eastern horizon. What a spectacular southern hemisphere constellation Scorpius is.
Owing to the encroachment of light pollution, sighting the gegenschein has almost become mythical and certainly makes me appreciate what an immense privilege it is to be observing under skies so dark and transparent that one can see faint, diffuse, oval glow around midnight.
Shining at magnitude 1.78 with a hot blue-white light, Gamma Velorum is nothing less than spectacular. Located about 840 light years away, it is a complex multi-star complex that contains the nearest Wolf-Rayet star to Earth.
After watching hundreds of Kalahari sunsets I saw the green flash yesterday evening and it was every bit as beautiful and exciting to see as I had imagined.
The “Baracchi 59” are the 59 unpublished visual discoveries that Pietro Baracchi made using the 48″ Great Melbourne Telescope during the years 1884-1888.