BurbleChaz

Meade 12" Lightbridge

This is why we went to Toowoomba.

305mm aperture, 1524mm focal length.

Assembled, collimated and ready for dark.

Hope it doesn’t rain.

It’s 120kms to Toowoomba, we’ve got four bottles of water, a full tank of gas, it’s beautiful day and we’re wearing shades….

Today, Australia decides!

The choices are the chubby psychopath or the theocratic misogynist.

Since we can’t vote anyway, we’re driving 120kms to Toowoomba for Highly Important Reasons, which I shall reveal later…

This shot composed itself.

A blue-faced honeyeater was dive-bombing the fish in the pond. No chance of catching that with my (old) phone, so I waited for the ripples to attenuate and took this shot.

Other People, with Real Cameras and insanely fast glass will, no doubt, impress you with avian antics later.

(I am two steps away from Instagram here. Save me!)

In the middle of the Tasman Sea, the seabed comes to the surface. A volcano stands above the surface, fringed by  coral.

Radiation fog over the harbour on a mild winter morning.