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What's UP In The
Southern Hemisphere?
Celestial Objects - Getting Started...
Top 10 Deep Sky Observing Objects For This Month
Comets
Recent News & Observations (Homepage)
Comet
Watching Sites (Online)
Aurora Watch
POES Auroral Activity
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North Pole South Pole
TASWA - Geophysical Condition Alerts
NOAA Estimated Planetary K-Index (Kp)
3 Day GOES Solar X-Ray Flux Monitor (Explanation)
STD DMSP/POLAR Auroral Activity Report
Aurora Watching Sites (Online)
Aurorawebcam.com - Mt. Aurora, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
The Aurora Live - Poker Flat, Alaska, USA
Free Charts
& Programs
Online Print Out Downloads
S&T Interactive Sky Chart Skymaps.com SkyGlobe Planetarium
Jupiter GRS Transit Times Virtual Moon Atlas
Saturn's Moons Mars Previewer II
My Telescopes
(1986)
My first (white: 30x40mm refractor) & second (red:
Tasco 11T 4.5"/ 114mm reflector) telescopes.
Third telescope not shown: Tasco 59T 60mm refractor.
Instruction
manuals
for most types of telescopes
can be
downloaded from
HERE
(pdf files)
My
Astro-Photos
Startrails
Crux & Pointers
Scorpius
Southern Cross
Orion & Canis Major
Total Solar Eclipse - Ceduna, SA
(4th December 2002)
Streaky Bay
Setting up
Dish
Diamond ring*
Totality*
(* photos taken by
Kathryn Wall)
Eclipse trip report
HERE
Short eclipse video (231kb)
ASSA Camp - Whyalla, SA
(25th-27th April 2003)
Scorpius & Sagittarius 
Sagittarius
Mars & Moon
Mercury Transit
(7th May 2003)
Taken from Morphett Vale, Adelaide, SA. 
Venus Transit
(8th June 2004)
Taken from Paralowie, Adelaide, SA.
Mercury-Venus Conjunction
( 27th June 2005)
Taken from Morphett Vale, Adelaide, SA
Moon-Venus Conjunction ( 7th September 2005)
Taken from Morphett Vale, Adelaide, SA
Mercury-Jupiter Conjunction ( 20th October 2006)
Light's 'Planet' Vision, Adelaide, SA
Iridium Flares
What is an
Iridium
Flare?
Iridium 76 (326kb)
16/11//04
Iridium 37 (1.6mb)
09/01//05
Iridium 83 (1.4mb)
09/01//05
Iridium 50 (1.1mb)
13/01//05
Iridium 10 (1.5mb)
18/01//05
Iridium 39 (1.0mb)
25/01//05
Astronomical Society of South Australia (ASSA)
Photos of ASSA
Observatories
For ASSA calendar
events & Public viewing nights
Click
HERE
To find an
Astronomical Society in Australia
Near YOU
Click
HERE
To
find Astronomical
Suppliers in Australia
Near YOU
Click
HERE
Telescope Tips
Buying Your First Telescope In Australia
Fixing Common Telescope Problems
Observing Tips
The Pickering Seeing Scale 1-10
Beating The Seeing - How To Improve It
The Bortle Dark-Sky Scale (Also Here)
Australian Artificial Night Sky Brightness
Astrophotography Tips
Astro Imaging With Digital Cameras
Digital Camera Imaging With A Telescope
Image Acquisition Best Practices Presentation
Planetary Observing With A Camcorder
Private
Or Back-Yard
Observatories
(That Are Open To The
Public)
*
Accommodation Available Onsite
South Australia
Mallee Sky Observatory - Loxton
New South Wales
Grove Creek Observatory - Trunkey Creek *
Magellan Observatory - Lake Bathurst *
Victoria
Grampian Stars Villa - Pomonal *
Want
to add your private/back-yard observatory site to the list?
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09/03//12.
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