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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.
The crescent Moon glows in the head of the constellation Scorpius, the scorpion(or crocodile, depending where you live) on 21 October . Click to embiggen
The Last Quarter Moon is Tuesday November 10. Jupiter is is easily seen as the brightest object in the evening sky. In the morning, Mars is easily seen above the eastern horizon and is near the Beehive cluster. On Monday 9 November Mars and the Moon...
Mars in the Beehive Cluster on the morning of November 2.
The November edition of Southern Skywatch is now up. There's the Mars in the Beehive Cluster, Saturn close to the Moon, lots of Jupiter action, the Leonid meteors and the maxima of the variable...
Comet C/2009 U6 is a recently discovered (and currently faint) comet. On the 27th of October, several days before the official discovery, Francois Kugel imaged a rendezvous between comets 29P and 81P. 81P is at the bottom, 29P is at the top. And just...
"Daddy - I'm a BAT!!"
As I've written before (and here as well) celebrating All Hallows Eve (Halloween) doesn't make sense in Australia. The bright sunshine, the sparking sea, the complete absence of any darkling shadows or any Gothic gloom...
