Last night’s moonrise from The Balconies - Royal National Park - south of Sydney 🇦🇺 #moon #moonrise #ocean #astronomy #astrophotography #night

The first full moon of the year on 3 January 2026 as seen from #Canberra 🇦🇺 #moon #astronomy #astrophotography #space #nightsky

NGC 1097 - a barred spiral galaxy about 45 million light years away. 2h5min of data captured with a Takahashi TOA 130NFB refractor and a ZWO ASI533MC camera from our suburban #Canberra backyard observatory. Processed in #Siril #astronomy #astrophotography #galaxy #telescope #space

Interstellar Comet #3i/ATLAS, at most a few km across in size, and 250,000,000 km away, on a one way journey through our solar system.
This image was produced from 11 exposures of 60s captured in our suburban backyard observatory. #comet #astrophotography #space #solarsystem #night #astronomy

My first view of 3i/ATLAS - the 3rd interstellar object ever seen in our solar system! It’s ~0400h and I’m imaging through a gap in our magnolia tree, but at I’ve seen it! Imaged with a Takahashi TOA 130NFB at 992mm FL, f7.7 #comet #comets #3i/atlas #interstellar #astrophotography #space #astronomy

Blue-banded bee - Amegilla asserta - If you’ve ever wondered how long the proboscis is on a blue-banded bee…. Taken with a Sony a7riii and a Sony 100 -400mm zoom at 400mm.
#bees #insects #naturephotography #Canberra #Australianinsects #Australianfauna

The full Moon through last night’s veil of thin clouds. #Moon #nightsky #mood #sky #astronomy #Canberra

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Dendrobium lichenastrum - Common button orchid blooming in the greenhouse. #orchids @orchidfever.bsky.social #Australianorchids #flowers

Australian painted lady - Vanessa kershawi. #butterflies #insects #naturephotography #Canberra

Another view of a male Superb Fairywren - Malurus cyaneus #birds #birdphotography #Australianbirds #naturephotography #Canberra

Superb fairywren - Malurus cyaneus

Another idea is to use this cheap solar to run uranium enrichment facilities which have high electricity requirements. Cheap electricity combined with high efficiency enrichment technology like Silex, rather than centrifuges, and Australia’s large U reserves equals low cost enrichment services.

Comet C/2025 R2 SWAN from the suburban backyard observatory in #Canberra on 14 October 2025. 30x60sec with a Takahashi TOA 130; ZWO ASI533MC; processed in #Siril #astrophotography #astronomy #comet #C/2025R2SWAN

The only ironing I ever do now is when I’m prepping to do flats. You seem to have forgone that step 😆

Beautiful 😍

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The Helix Nebula - NGC 7293 - a planetary nebula formed by an exploding star similar to The Sun. It’s one of the closer planetary nebulae at a mere 650 light years from Earth. 2h40m of data collected with a Takahashi TSA 120 at f5.8. #astrophotography #astronomy #nebula #eyeinthesky

Eastern rosella in Wee Jasper Grevillea in the #Canberra front yard. #birds #parrots #australianbirds

Crimson rosella in Wee Jasper Grevillea in the #Canberra front yard. #birds #parrots #australianbirds

Thanks for circulating this. Signed someone living in Bortle 6 and soon to be Bortle 7 😕

No worries mate.

Red wattlebird on a Wee Jasper grevillea in our #Canberra front yard this morning. #birds #Australianbirds

A very happy rock orchid - Dendrobium speciosum - blooming in the greenhouse. #orchid #flowers #Dendrobium @orchidfever.bsky.social

This Rock Orchid is Dendrobium speciosum grandiflorum “Golden Cascades”. It’s very happy in the greenhouse and it looks like it will bloom before most of the other Dendrobiums. #orchids #orchids #Dendrobium @orchidfever.bsky.social

When I come across a jumping spider I often transfer it to the greenhouse. They’re thriving and doing a good job of pest management! Here’s one consuming an intruder on a Dendrobium speciosum flower spike. #orchid #orchids @orchidfever.bsky.social

The Rock Orchid - this one is Dendrobium speciosum grandiflorum “Golden Cascades” - is putting out some big flower spikes this year! #orchids #orchid #flowers #Dendrobium

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The spiral galaxy NGC 6744 lies some 30 million light-years away from our home galaxy, the Milky Way. This beautiful galaxy can be found in the southern Pavo constellation. Photographed from our suburban #Canberra backyard. 5h 30 m of data. #astronomy #astrophotography #galaxy #space #deepsky