Pictures of the Smiley Face Conjunction
Wow, well last night certainly proved to be more stressful than was expected! After a beautiful and clear practise run on Sunday night, it was supposed to be crystal clear on Monday night too but high cloud and then thick low cloud came in during Monday afternoon which threatened to spoil the whole event for me.
News of the rare celestial alignment had made it to all the media outlets and it got quite a bit of coverage yesterday. I gave a short interview for the local Star 104.5FM radio station, and I saw it mentioned on news.com.au, and the TV news as well.
It did clear for me, just! Here’s the first of the many images I captured.
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My name is Mike Salway and I'm an amateur astronomer and photographer. I'm the co-founder of 
