It’s only a few minutes before the sun will vanish below an ocean horizon but still the sky looks burned. Above the clouds and to the west a traveller peers out from their window seat, stares into the deepening untainted azure sky and and marvels a different beauty.
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Looking directly up into the Milky Way and the constellation of Scorpio I see two wandering planets amid a sea of stars An orange Mars, the largest and brightest lingers on the back of the scorpion gazing off at the eerie glow of the Blue Horsehead Nebula to the left. The red giant Antares lights […]
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Sydney is one of those cities I just love being in, wandering the streets, sailing the waterways and taking in the bold and brassy spectacle of high-rise and harbour sights. Although there are plenty of high priced harbour cruises on offer, for just a few dollars you can jump on one of the harbour ferries […]
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The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a nearby (on cosmological terms) galaxy clearly visible as a small cloud to the naked eye in the southern night sky. As a neighboring galaxy in our local group it is considered a suburb of our own Milky Way galaxy. At around 163,000 light year away it is humbling […]
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Silhouettes are beautiful in the dying twilight, especially ones set in the open sky. It is interesting to watch the seagulls after sunset heading north in small groups like this one. It is curious that I never see them flying south at this time. Perhaps I should come back int the early morning. If you […]
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