The images on the left are the ones I have just taken tonight with my new ToUCam. The images to the right were taken (about a year ago) with my old Logitech Quickcam webcam.

On Monday 23 November at 6:00 pm renown physicist and blogger Sean Carroll will be at Adelaide University to give a talk! Woot! "The Arrow of Time" presented by Professor Sean Carroll, California Institute of Technology, Monday 23rd November 2009....

These rainbows were projected onto our bedroom wall by light hitting the bedroom window at an angle. I have no idea why two spots were fromed. I took me a whle to find the source of the light, and I couldn't see if it was being split or occluded in...

Image credit, Chris Wyatt (click on images to embiggen, it's worth it). Correspondent Chris Wyatt of Bendigo has sent in these terrific pictures of Jupiter and its Moons. Chris writes: "From mid August to early October I have made a number of...

The Crescent Earth as seen from the Rosetta spacecraft on November 13 (Image Credit, ESA) The Rosetta spacecraft, on its way to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko did another flyby of the Earth-Moon system. This striking image of the crescent Earth is my...

Lightning flash seen from our backyard at 8:30 pm (click to embiggen). We hit a record today, the hottest November day since records began (43 degrees Celsius in the city, it was hotter elsewhere). This after a long string of 35 plus days. We are...