Since we returned from New Zealand we have enjoyed some weekend outings around home: some hikes on different trails in the Warrumbungles, a day trip to Dubbo to get some soccer shoes for Carlen and treat ourselves to a restaurant meal, and a couple quiet weekends at the house. Here is an album of pictures from the first few weeks of term 2.
Occultation of Saturn
The blur at 5:00 from the moon is Saturn as seen through my camera. Carlen and I (and a few other people) took in the Occultation of Saturn with Donna, an astronomer at Siding Springs who ran an event to observe the event. She set up several of her enormous telescopes for us to use and we watched as Saturn approached, then appeared to move behind the moon. We also took the opportunity to gaze at the moon, Mars, Jupiter, and many other notable things in the sky. It was, in Carlen's words, SO COOL!!!
