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About 34° today, but with a gentle breeze across the lake we managed to keep the heat stroke within acceptable parameters.

May have goosed the saturation a tiny bit on this one.

There's a camouflaged photographer in there somewhere

8mm ocular on a 1524mm length Newtonian.

And Jupiter! With four moons visible! On the same night!

Thank you Galileo!

We’re looking straight down the barrel of two vicious storms.

Well, that’s us utterly fucked, then.

Rainfall radar:

Since there’s no hope, we’d better drink the cold beer before the power goes out.

Cheers!

Crossing the Tasman again. Happy to be homeward bound.

Air goes in, thrust comes out.

Final approach

Lord Nelson, the Jubilee Sailing Trust’s barque, is in Auckland. Her home port is Southampton.

A long way from home

...and a long way to go

Christmas dinner in the courtyard this evening. For reasons that elude me entirely, we have been tasked with providing astronomy-themed mini-burgers.

The mise en place.

Prepped for the Barbie

Saturn burgers  with rings and Jupiter burgers with Great Red Spots.

Why are we doing this again?

The emotions vary in inverse proportion to the stakes involved. We spent twenty minutes discussing a $40 expense. So I took some pictures.