Did you know: time and space
This month ….. the incredibly quick to the incredibly long and everything in between It takes the Sun 225 million years to travel once...
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Elizabeth Cocking
Jul 31, 20192 min read
In this month: August
28th August 1789 Saturn’s moon Enceladus is discovered by Sir William Herschel during the first use of his new 1.2 m telescope, then the...
Elizabeth Cocking
Jul 18, 20192 min read
Did you know? The Apollo missions
This month we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the Moon with a few little known facts of the Apollo missions. Where...
Monty Leventhal OAM
Jul 10, 20192 min read
Solar Observations: June 2019
For the month of June, 2019, though solar activity was once again was still very low, a few Sunspot groups did appear. On June 1st the...
Elizabeth Cocking
Jun 30, 20192 min read
In this month: July 2019
5th July 1687 The book Principia is published by Sir Isaac Newton. Written in Latin with the title Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia...
Monty Leventhal OAM
Jun 5, 20192 min read
Solar Observations: May 2019
For the month of May, 2019, though solar activity was once again was still very low, a few Sunspot groups did appear. A total of 24...
Elizabeth Cocking
Jun 3, 20191 min read
Did you know? Comets...dirty snowballs
The long and short of it….. the orbital period of comets can range from long period comets like Comet McNaught, 92,700 years, to Comet...
Elizabeth Cocking
May 31, 20192 min read
In this month: June
13th June 1983 Pioneer 10 becomes the first human-made object to pass outside Pluto's orbit and leave the solar system. It was the...
Elizabeth Cocking
May 5, 20191 min read
Did you know? Royal Greenwich Observatory
This month we feature the Royal Greenwich Observatory and the Prime Meridian – Where East meets West The Prime Meridian is arbitrary and...
Monty Leventhal OAM
May 3, 20192 min read
Solar Observations: April 2019
At last...there was a bit more solar activity in April as reported by Monty Leventhal OAM from his balcony in Maroubra, a suburb of...
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