Astronomy Down Under is a blog based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. I’m an amateur astronomer, and this blog has anything that I find interesting in the area of astronomy: news, current events, scientific issues, educational articles I wrote and so on. Enjoy.
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This Friday (starting at 22:31 Melbourne daylight savings time, 11:31 UTC), a Centaur booster rocket will crash on the surface of the Moon, closely followed by the spacecraft it helped get there, LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite)....
Several space missions will start to deliver new science data in the next weeks or months, and will certainly bring lots of new information about many different aspects of the universe. Let's start looking at them...
MESSENGER
The MESSENGER (MErcury...
Just playing with my camera from home... this is what you can photograph in the sky from a very light-polluted place (central Melbourne) with a standard DSLR camera and no telescope (but a slightly long exposure):
Click on the image for a larger...
