If ever there is a place to see the colours of the mythical Phoenix - the beautiful firebird that lived in the Arabian desert and whose plumage was the colours of fire - it is the Kalahari at sunset.
Last night I observed quasar 3C 273 which lies 2.4 billion light-years away. Recently I found a 2.4 billion year old stromatolite fossil... the first evidence of life on Earth. It is impossible to fathom the distance from us humans in both light and evolution...
Pavo, our beautiful southern peacock, is filled with galaxies floating in space like the eyespots in the terrestrial peacock’s magnificent plumage.
One of the the most sublime experiences of living in the southern hemisphere is that a few languid slews of the telescope allow one to see all three of those mighty star-birth nebulae: the Great Orion Nebula… the Carina Nebula… the Tarantula Nebula.
The twenty two Hogg open clusters offer an unusually rich observing project - not because the clusters themselves are rich - indeed, many of them are notably obscure - but because they all lie in exceptionally lush and beautiful star fields, with many of them juxtaposed with lovely NGC and Trumpler clusters.
The twenty four Pişmiş open clusters make a delightful observing project. A few of them are exquisitely bright and delicate, others appear as tiny glints of stars mingled with a faint hazy glow of unresolved starlight, and yet others appear as little more than a faint and tantalizing mistiness.
If ever there is a place to see the colours of the mythical Phoenix - the beautiful firebird that lived in the Arabian desert and whose plumage was the colours of fire - it is the Kalahari at sunset.
Last night I observed quasar 3C 273 which lies 2.4 billion light-years away. Recently I found a 2.4 billion year old stromatolite fossil... the first evidence of life on Earth. It is impossible to fathom the distance from us humans in both light and evolution...
Pavo, our beautiful southern peacock, is filled with galaxies floating in space like the eyespots in the terrestrial peacock’s magnificent plumage.
One of the the most sublime experiences of living in the southern hemisphere is that a few languid slews of the telescope allow one to see all three of those mighty star-birth nebulae: the Great Orion Nebula… the Carina Nebula… the Tarantula Nebula.
The twenty two Hogg open clusters offer an unusually rich observing project - not because the clusters themselves are rich - indeed, many of them are notably obscure - but because they all lie in exceptionally lush and beautiful star fields, with many of them juxtaposed with lovely NGC and Trumpler clusters.
The twenty four Pişmiş open clusters make a delightful observing project. A few of them are exquisitely bright and delicate, others appear as tiny glints of stars mingled with a faint hazy glow of unresolved starlight, and yet others appear as little more than a faint and tantalizing mistiness.