astronomy – Hangout

Wednesday, 12 August 2009Wednesday, 12 August 2009

Hubble Ultra Deep Field

Showing 10,000 galaxies, the overwhelming Hubble Ultra Deep Field is the most amazing, most humbling image in history, demonstrating how tiny and precious we are. This video explains how it was taken, and shows it in three dimensions.

Darwin
We ended up spending 9 nights at the hotel and managed to explore Darwin thoroughly as well as getting some R&R. I like Darwin – it’s compact; quirky with street art on every wall; diverse with many nationalities mixing up but at the same time, very Australian. Surrounded by the outback, hot and tropical with […]
… and back to the good ship Mistral
It’s been quite a week. We arrived back from our magical holiday to a very loud noise emanating from within Mistral. It transpired that the fresh water pump was running constantly, along with the bilge pump – a fresh water leak with 850 litres of water pumped out of the boat in 10 days. Nightmare. […]
The Top End – Part 2!
I am way behind on the blog posts … another week gone by and I haven’t recorded the final few days of our magical trip through the Top End. So … for the record … There was more to see! Next stop was Katherine Gorge – home to the traditional aboriginal Jawoyn people. We stayed […]