Lachlan Heads For The Top

 Lachlan's Central Australian Trip is covering territory he saw as a 2 year old but retains little memory of it. Following Uluru, he saw King's Canyon and took a helicopter flight over the area before going north to the Devil's Marbles, Katherine Gorge and Mataranka.

Lachlan kept the tour amused by recreating photos taken when he was a toddler with his Dad.

They visited Kakadu seeing plenty of wildlife (and crocodiles) before heading for Darwin, arriving on Northern Territory Day before flying home.

Nostalgia on Steroids

 We attended a concert at "The Round" last night.  The music was all British music of the 60s and 70s that was written before any of the performers were born but was the soundtrack of our youth.

Centaurus A Reprocessed

 With the recent dreadful weather I have been unable to use my telescope so I have turned attention to processing data I had previously collected.  I was pleased to be able to get a more detailed image of Centaurus A and the dust lanes across the galaxy with improved techniques.

Centaurus A is the 5th brightest spot in the sky.  It is 11–13 million light-years away and the closest radio galaxy to earth. It was discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop from his home in Parramatta, in New South Wales..  Powerful radio emissions suggest it was formed from the collision of a large elliptical and a smaller spiral galaxy with the resulting burst of intensive star formation.