For natural cosmic phenomena, you don’t get more remarkable than a Total Eclipse of the Sun! For a total solar eclipse to occur, the Sun, Moon and Earth need to be perfectly aligned in their orbits, with the Moon in the middle. As the Moon travels between the...
Watch a rising (almost) full Moon this Easter! Low in the eastern sky, as the Moon rises, it will appear orange in colour and very large. Keep an eye on the Moon as it rises, and you’ll see that it returns to its usual Moon colour as it rises out of the hazy...
This month we are forecast for the return of the Lyrids meteor shower. The shower gets its name from the apparent origin of the meteors, in this case, the constellation of Lyra. Lyra is under the horizon for most of the night, and low to the horizon for the remainder....
A favourite of stargazers everywhere, the Beehive Cluster, can be seen very near to the Moon on the 27th and 28th of April! Head out side and look for the Moon. On the 27th the Beehive Cluster is to the east of the Moon, and is to the west on the 28th. Use the Quasar...
Looking to the west just after sunset on the 24th, stargazers can see a crescent Moon, the bright planet Venus and the constellation of Taurus all grouped together! Look for the red super-giant star Aldebaran, which marks the eye of the bull!Use the Quasar Publishing...
Although mainstream education teaches the four seasons of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, Western Australia’s Noongar Aboriginal people lived by six seasons. These seasons clearly indicate change in weather. Aboriginal culture dates back tens of thousands of years...
Travelling in country WA gives you an excellent opportunity to see something not normally visible under bright city lights. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (sometimes abbreviated to LMC and SMC!) are galaxies outside of our own Milky Way Galaxy. From Earth, they...
April is a great time to start viewing the famous Australian constellation of the Southern Cross. You can track it over mid-autumn and winter evenings. When to look: 7.30pm, from April Which direction to look: South east When you head outside to stargaze, what you...
Astrophotographers often refer to this time of the year, from mid autumn to mid spring, as the “Milky Way Season”! That’s because, during this time of year, we look towards the centre or core of our Milky Way Galaxy. It’s dense with stars and stretches across the dark...
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