Despite beautiful clear skies right up to the day of the Total Lunar Eclipse, a change brought terrible rain and clouds for most of Wednesday. Patchy clear skies gave hope at around 6pm, but it was short-lived. I was only able … Continue reading
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Total Lunar Eclipse on Wednesday night!
On Wednesday night the 8th October 2014, there’s a fantastic Total Lunar Eclipse occurring at a great time for evening viewing. The partial stages start at ~8:30pm NSW time (AEDST), with Totality starting at 9:25pm. Mid-Totality is at 9:55pm. Look East … Continue reading
Upcoming Total Lunar Eclipse – 15th April 2014
On the 15th April 2014, we’ll (weather pending!) experience our first total lunar eclipse in 2.5 years! For Australians and New Zealanders, the eclipse will be in progress at Moonrise – approx 5:28pm AEST when the totality phase will have … Continue reading
IISAC2014 Star Party coming up!
The <a href="http://www.iceinspace.com Read Full Report.au/iisac” onclick=”_gaq.push([‘_trackEvent’, ‘outbound-article’, ‘http://www.iceinspace.com.au/iisac’, ‘IceInSpace Star Party’]);” title=”IceInSpace Star Party” target=”_blank”>IceInSpace Star Party (IISAC) event for 2014 is only 6 weeks away! Being held on the 24th-26th April, in the Hunter Valley area of NSW, … Continue reading
Wish Upon A Star
Contemplating Monkey Mia / Wish Upon a Star A self-portrait captured on the road between Denham and Monkey Mia, on the beautiful Coral Coast in Western Australia. – Download Wallpaper Every time I process images from our trip, makes me … Continue reading
Vote in the IceInSpace Calendar Competition!
Any regular readers will know that Astronomy is my other passion, and IceInSpace is the amateur astronomy community website that I founded back in 2004. It’s now the biggest and most active amateur astronomy community in the Southern Hemisphere. Every … Continue reading
Boab and the Moon
We found a patch of Boab Trees in “New York Valley” near Home Valley Station and although it was a bit of rough ride getting to, we spent the afternoon there in the dry heat and loved seeing the change in the … Continue reading
How to Create a Colour Saturated Moon Photo
Why does the picture of the Moon above have those funky colours? You can’t see them with your eyes, or through the telescope like that, right?
Actually the colours are real – they’ve just been artificially boosted; amplified during processing. In this article, I’m going to show you how to process your lunar images to bring out those colours. Continue reading
A Couple from the Mudgee Observatory
Just trying to get through the backlog of photos, here’s a couple of shots taken from the Mudgee Observatory when I was there for the Mudgee Star Party during April new Moon. The first is of the Mudgee Observatory domes … Continue reading
A Travelers Guide to the Planets – I'm Excited!
I’m very excited! A month or so ago I was contacted by Essential Media, a production company who were putting together a series on the solar system and the planets for National Geographic. They were after some video footage of … Continue reading
