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Milky Way rising, Large Magellanic Cloud and Anglo-Australian Telescope https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3911/32426711153_7649202bc6_c.jpg Milky Way, Large Magellanic Cloud, and Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT, Siding Spring Observatory, NSW, Australia). Combination of 6 frames, each of 30 seconds, CA...

Crescent Moon and Anglo-Australian Telescope https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/623/33076675731_b37f0451e3_c.jpg The Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT, Siding Spring Observatory, NSW, Australia) is ready for another night observing with the SAMI (Sydney-AAO Multiobject Integral-field spectroscopy) instrum...

Perseids 2016 over the Teide Observatory. https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8225/28336861174_0f003af053_z.jpg Combination of 25 meteors from the Perseids meteor shower detected in 24 frames. All frames were taken with a CANON EOS 5D Mark III with a Samyang 14mm lens, 30 seconds exposure at f/2.8 and IS...

Vertical Milky Way over the Anglo-Australian Telescope https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7733/27722628870_979ce8115d_z.jpg Image obtained on 30th June 2016 at 22:04 AEST (14:04 UTC) using a CANON 5D Mark III with a 14mm f2.8 wide lens. Single 30 seconds exposure at 3200 ISO. Besides the conversion from...

https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7431/27545798056_aab2a253fa_c.jpg Colour, gas and dust in the core of the Lagoon Nebula Mosaic of M8, the Lagoon Nebula, obtained using the Wide Field Camera (WFC) at the 2.5m Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma (Spain). Color i...

Time-lapse: The Sky over Siding Spring Observatory Dear friends, It is my pleasure to announce that the Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO) has just created a YouTube channel and that my time-lapse video "The Sky over Siding Spring Observatory" has been released there: https://www.y...

Sequences of the Occultation of Saturn by the Moon on May 14th 2014 Images taken on 14 May 2014 from Sydney using a Telescope Skywatcher Black Diamond D = 80 mm, f = 600 mm, 20 mm eyepiece + CANON EOS 600D. All times are given in Universal Time. 1. Saturn disappears: https://farm6.staticflickr.com/...

Mosaic with the path of the NEA 2012 DA14 from the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT): http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8096/8478061890_cf2e6beaf1_z.jpg Observed during the evening twilight on the 15 February 2013 using the FPI camera of the 2dF instrument at the 3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope located a...

After spending a weekend playing with the raw frames, I ended up with this timelapse video of the Total Solar Eclipse 13/14 Nov 2012 which shows almost all the sequence. Please allow HD or Full HD versions to enjoy all the details of the timelapse. I hope you like it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

After spending a weekend playing with the raw frames, I ended up with this timelapse video of the Total Solar Eclipse 13/14 Nov 2012 which shows almost all the sequence. Please allow HD or Full HD versions to enjoy all the details of the timelapse. I hope you like it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...