Southern-X-Observatory

The Twilight Zone
	Looking west, the full moon with the Venus Belt (pink band) with earths shadow below it. This view is the reverse view from the east on a morning in febuary 2003. When we were searching for Comet C/2002 V1 (NEAT) at its perihelion window.	view pic

	This is the eastern horizon on the same morning near dawn.	view pic

	A young moon hangs in the sky after sunset, on the evening we first saw Comet 2002 V1.	view pic

	Venus and Mars on the Geminid morn. Venus being the brightest object in the photo and Mars is the small dot just above and to the right. This photo captures the first look at Mars,near dawn in dec 2002, on this its greatest return in around 40 000 years. The star Spica is at 11 o'clock of Venus.	view pic

	Earthshine on a very old moon. This taken on a morning at the end of a session of observing and photographing Comet WM1.	view pic

	Sunset taken on the evening of the planet alignment in April 2002. The brightest object is the planet Venus, next brightest - above and to the right - is Mars, followed by Saturn above that. The constellation in the upper left corner is Taurus, and Jupiter is out of the photo up higher, while Mercury is down in the clouds on the horizon. Taken from the Adelaide hills.	view pic

	The main device for meteor watching ..the fold-up chair!. This shot taken looking west at dawn on a day in Nov 2001 we will never forget. We had just seen literally over 2200 meteors in just a few hours, on the morning of the 2001 Leonid meteor storm	view pic