Folks in #PerthWA we have the first signs of an active #Aurora !
Watch the skies to the South!
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Perth is delusional if it believes it's helpful and properly signposted.
Arriving at East Perth coach terminal yesterday, and having to go to the WACA for my connecting bus. East Perth being a gross generalisation of connecting services, apparently.
The signs available were espousing the wonder of transport maps, and wayfinder signboards. But, I was asking too much and there was no way to realise the 34 bus came nowhere near the station.
Me being super-capable, and the German backpacker being super-capable, meant we had planned plenty of time to work it out for ourselves. (Him going to Karratha). But, nowhere was there anyone saying: I will help. Or, even an accurate geographical map to expose discrepancies in the system.
And it's the little things that were causing issues. How do you pay on a Perth bus? Or, when they signpost station, what kind of station do they mean? Or, what if my device gives out and I don't have a backup information source? For sake of mind, just telling me where East Perth connecting buses actually run? (The answer was nowhere because they don't approach a terminal)
In the end I walked into the city to hitch a ride with family.
This is how every trip to Perth feels too. It's a unnecessarily difficult sprawling city that's designed for and by insiders. I haven't used a form of transport here that gives me satisfaction due to good planning. (Don't start me on the walking issues.)
At least the people I met along the way were nice people! :bill:
While walking to the Good Food and Wine Festival down at #PCEC we saw this absolutely charming trompe-l'Εil on William St.
It continues down the road to the corner of St. George's Tce.
Over the last three nights - a break in the weather for us here in #Boorloo ( #PerthWA ) - I've been targeting the same target after midnight and through to astronomical twilight. It is another target that is familiar to me - #C63 or #HelixNebula sometimes known as the Eye of Sauron Nebula or the Eye of God Nebula.
This is the largest planetary nebula visible to us, only about 200 parsecs away, and is about 2.8 light years across, making it about 22 arcminutes across for the main body, and is about 6500 years old.
So back to the making of this image. Each night I got about five hours of shooting in with my #Dwarf3 , for about fifteen hours total. I had to ditch a bunch of frames as they had dodgy data (atmospheric distortions, musktrails, and, in one case, a passing jet), which brought me down to thirteen hours and thirty-six minutes (816x60s@80). These I restacked using the "Megastack" function of the #DwarfLab app (about 3 hours - executed entirely within the telescope), and then passed the result to the #StellarStudio part of the app (running in the cloud) to optimize the FITS file and run a star removal.
I then exported a PNG of each version, and started post-processing. This consisted of passing the starless image into #Snapseed and boosting the saturation, darkening shadows and so on. Then I took the optimized version and took the shadows to maximum darkness, and reduced the overall brightness somewhat, leaving me with a reduced star version, with almost no nebula visible. Lastly, in Snapseed again, I used the double exposure tool to stack the two parts together.
And here is the result.
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2025-06-06Since October last year, I have had a set of solargraphy cameras set up at Rooftop Movies.
Their season, and mine, have now wrapped, so here's the writeup and the photos!
Don't know what solargraphy is? Or Rooftop Movies? Everything is explained!
https://rdmasters.lympago.com/p/rooftop-movies-solargraphs-2025-complete.html
#Solargraphy #Solargraph #Photography #astrophotography #Astrodon #Art #PerthWA #PerthIsOK #RooftopMovies #Artrage #Astronomy
Perth WA. Was her in April 2024. My forth visit to this city. #perth #perthwa #perthaustralia #skyline #perthaustralie #australie #australia
A couple of nights ago we saw #Wicked at #RooftopMovies in #PerthWA .
After the show, though, I took this shot with my #Pixel6a , looking back at the projection room and the bar behind it.
I'm guessing the cyan objects are internal reflections, but I choose to believe they were a bunch of #UFOs sneaking in to catch the show on the sly.
So Astrofest is done and dusted for another year. For the first time since the early 2000s (when we did model rocket displays) we were volunteers. This time we were running one of the telescope pods - the Smart Telescope pod, which, unlike the other pods, was not limited to a single target. We were all over the sky, making the most of the ease of control and versatility of these fun devices.
@leece and I had three DwarfIIs, there was a pair of Seestar S50s, a Unistellar EVScopeII, and even a Vaonis Vespera II (which is a work of art, as well as being a stunning telescope).
We even had someone doing it oldschool with a guide mount and a DSLR with a very beefy lens!
We started the afternoon with sun and moon viewing - made challenging with the sunlight on our screens. After, one of the S50s continued with the moon for the rest of the night, while the rest of us went on to other targets, including 47 Tucanae, the Cat's Paw Nebula, C65 (The Sculptor Galaxy), The Lagoon Nebula, the SMC, the LMC, and even a random star that someone had the coordinates for tattooed on their arm!
We were on our feet pretty much from 2:30 when we set up to 10:30 when we finally departed, and talked to the public almost non-stop from about 4pm. We answered questions about what these weird looking devices were, and why people were not looking through them, what they could do, how much they cost, and which were the best. This last one was a tough one, as we own one brand, and there was another brand in the same price bracket right next to us :) We were fair, though, and highlighted the pluses and minuses of each. And explaining, many times, that we were not selling them.
Early in the evening Leece did duck off to watch the Astrophotography competition awards, as she had been shortlisted. And, to her surprise, she had just sat down when they announced the winner for the Night Sky Friendly Lighting category - with her image of the rising galactic core over a resort near Bindoon taking the prize!
It was a fantastic, if exhausting experience, and one we look forward to repeating in Feb 2026.
#astronomy #astrophotography #ScienceEducation #Astrofest #PerthWA #Astrofest #Astrofest2024 #Bindoon #DarkSkyAlliance #DwarfII #SeeStarS50 #Unistellar #Vespera2
#PerthWA is my first stop on what is not a #RoundTheWorld trip or a #There-andBackAgain but a really big circle with doubling backs.
Most of the places I'm visiting are stops planned with a purpose of visiting, but I'm starting with places that are transport links, Perth being between London and my first place/thing of intent in Australia.
Arrived in #PerthWA yesterday, on the 16 hour slight from London. Stretched out legs in the Botanic Gardens, King's Park. Highlights were a magpie and a fuzzy pink ball bush.
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My pharmacist tells me that we're in an upswing.
The infection figures for every state in Australia are rising.
And my very rough guessstimate, from a Queensland path lab's figures, is that one in every six respiratory infections is Covid.
Which is a doubling in proportion over the last ~6 weeks.
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