It's finally official! The Sunshine Coast Hinterland is home to Queensland's first International Dark Sky Reserve!
A huge congratulations to our good friend Dr. Ken Wishaw and the team at Sunshine Coast Council for this incredible achievement many years in the making.…
So you may have noticed a bit of a rebrand...
After almost exactly 4 years of studying the night sky and photographing the tiniest fraction of the beauty within it, we have decided to change things up.…
Had a fantastic time at the Bisei Astronomical Observatory and JAXA Spaceguard Center in Okayama, Japan this past week. It's not every day you get to enjoy a view through a 1.01m telescope!…
Trifid Triple Digits (100 hours)
I've been waiting to post this photo until I got feedback from the astrophotography competition I submitted it into. This image of the Trifid Nebula was a labour of love, consisting of 100 hours of data captured on 23 nights over 3 months.…
19,373 frames stacked together for one extra crisp visual full moon captured on 11 June.
Specs -
Two panel mosaic, 10min videos of each panel, top 50% of frames stacked (19,373)
Telescope: Skywatcher Esprit 120
Mount: Skywatcher AZEQ6 Pro
Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro…
Ever wonder what over 19,000 stacked images of the moon might look like?
This "Mineral Moon" was captured a few days ago during the full moon. My first attempt ever at imaging and processing images of the moon!…
The last post from my semester project I promise.
This image shows a comparison across Near Infrared, Visible and Hydrogen alpha wavelengths for the purposes of stellar identification.…
The images have been rotated 90° clockwise from the view it is normally seen at so that it could align with the typical view associated with Cosmic Cliffs images by Hubble and JWST.…
Sun - 25 May 2025
This past weekend I got to go to Queensland Astrofest again! This star party has been going since 1993 and I found out this year that it is actually the longest length star party on the planet at 9 days long,…
Sun - 25 May 2025
This past weekend I got to go to Queensland Astrofest again! This star party has been going since 1993 and I found out this year that it is actually the longest length star party on the planet at 9 days long,…