Cloudwatch: Iridescence over Ethiopia
I’ve seen many clouds with faint iridescence before, and even a few where the play of colours was remarkably clear, but never anything quite as vivid as this!
Belated Winter Solstice salutations
So of course I’m going to show you a picture of the summer solstice at Stonehenge, because I just love the ‘henge. Here in Sydney? Here’s a shot I took last week
Happy Vernal Equinox
APOD put up a fantastic picture to mark this stage in the planet’s journey around the Sun. Recorded on March 10 from Teide National Park on the island of Tenerife, the vista is composed of 4 separate pictures spanning over 180 degrees. (Image Credit & Copyright: Daniel López)
Photo techniques I plan to rip off at the earliest possible opportunity #1
Image Source: Astronomy Picture of the Day (2008-08-02: Eclipse Shirt), image by Phillip Haake
The next eclipse of the sun visible from Australia will be in November 2012 (and only a partial eclipse over Sydney), so I’ve got a while to plan it
APOD: Running Messier’s Marathon
When I retire I’m going to become an astronomy geek. Explanation for the photo below from APOD. Image Credit: Amir Hossein Abolfath Related posts: Cloudwatch: Iridescence over Ethiopia Catching up on too many other things to blog blogging Photo techniques I plan to rip off at the earliest possible opportunity #1 APOD goes dancing Ooh, [...]
Another lap of the circuit
At 0548 GMT (or UT if you prefer) on March 20, the Sun (from a geocentric perspective) passed the celestial equator heading north, making it the autumnal equinox for us Southrons and the vernal equinox for them Northrons. APOD has published this lovely high atmosphere sunset shot (taken from the ISS) to celebrate. Did anyone [...]
Astronomy Pictures of the Year for 2007
I’m sitting here, back from the “family” fireworks display over Sydney Harbour at 9pm (just slightly less frosty than the New Year firework display in Norway that we attended last year), about to pour myself a something with Frangelico, and clicking on a few of my favourite sites to see their retrospectives of the year. [...]
Ooh, shiny!
It’s been a while since I posted pretty astronomy pictures. This one caught my eye today. Image Credit: APOD Venus and the Moon appearing near to each other in the evening sky last week. I like the diffraction spikes on Venus. When I saw the pair last week they looked a bit more like this [...]
Lenticular clouds
I just heard on the radio that weather conditions in Sydney today are such that there’s a high probability of a lenticular cloud forming over the city late this afternoon, as the day cools. If it does, it will likely run from northwest to southeast, and should look fabulous from the east with the sun [...]
A cornucopia from Cassini
JPL has put up a photo-essay of some of the best shots of and around Saturn taken by the space-probe Cassini. The moon Dione passes in front of Saturn (image from Astronomy Picture Of The Day) H/T Club Troppo’s Nic Gruen, who likes this sort of thing. Related posts: Gratuitous Cassini blogging Been way too [...]
What a show!
Regular readers, I’m talking up the Astronomy Picture of the Day site again. This was taken in Perth on Australia Day (yes, it’s a panorama made from separate shots). The faint streak in the sky just left of centre is Comet McNaught. Related posts: Cloudwatch: Iridescence over Ethiopia Bother, missed the planetary conjunction Photo techniques [...]
Totally missing the comet so far
There was no news coverage about this comet in Norway, France or England/Wales, so we didn’t know that the night of our return was the night of the brightest showing of the brightest comet for decades (who else remembers the fizzer of Halley’s Comet last time around?). Had occasion to be on the roads about [...]
Friday wet and furry
Well, this time on Sunday Australian time I will be in the air, asleep, on the way to Europe for Christmas and New Year. For New Year’s Eve we will be in Norway, and mr tog and I are crossing our fingers that the current solar storm will still be burbling away so that we [...]
Ancients yet again smarter than thought
I love the way we keep finding that people in the ancient and prehistoric world were actually much less backward than previous generations of scholars thought. image from Wikipedia It was found at the bottom of the sea aboard an ancient Greek ship. Its seeming complexity has prompted decades of study, although many of its [...]
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