Western Sydney Amateur Astronomy Group Inc.

04/04/2026

Hello World (APOD: 2026 Apr 04)
Image Credit: NASA, Reid Wiseman, Artemis II
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260404.html

Explanation: From pole to pole our fair planet is captured in this snapshot from space, an evocative image from a window of the Orion spacecraft Integrity, From the spacecraft's perspective the Sun is moving behind Earth's bright limb along the lower right. Africa and the Iberian peninsula are in view on the pale blue planet's surface, while aurorae crown Earth's south and north poles at top right and bottom left. Commander Reid Wiseman took the historic picture on Artemis II mission flight day 2 (April 2), after the completion of the planned translunar injection burn. That burn boosted the spacecraft out of Earth orbit, sending spacecraft and crew on a trajectory that will take them around the Moon and back again. That's a journey humans last made over 50 years ago.

https://www.nasa.gov/
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/our-artemis-crew/

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02/03/2026

There will be a Total Lunar (Blood Moon) Eclipse on Tuesday evening (3rd March). This will be the last total lunar eclipse until December 2028. Unfortunately the weather forecast looks bad for the Blue Mountains. Regardless, I will be live streaming the event on YouTube from my observatory at Hazelbrook starting at 8.30pm. If the clouds make viewing impossible I will show live feeds from other parts of the world. Youtube link: https://youtube.com/live/LKU-p-i3bIQ
- Peter Nosworthy

I'm streaming the Total Lunar Eclipse Live from Hazelbrook Observatory (The Hazo Gazo).In the event of bad weather we will view feeds from other locations wh...

25/01/2026

https://futurism.com/space/james-webb-star-crumbling

A stunning new image taken with the James Webb Space Telescope provides a closeup look a dying star and its irradiated remains.

12/12/2025

https://youtu.be/QgoX1jsX1D4?si=rAlvkZ5srkEelcrX

The Geminid meteor shower will be visible this weekend, with the potential to see dozens of meteors per hour as Earth traverses the debris of asteroid 3200 P...

07/12/2025

https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/ethereal-structure-in-the-sky-rivals-pillars-of-creation-space-photo-of-the-week

The twin telescopes of the Gemini Observatory mark 25 years of discovery as students name distant nebula Ua ʻŌhiʻa Lan.

06/12/2025

04/12/2025

By remote operation, I was able to capture comet 3I/Atlas and its anti-tail using telescope 26 in Utah, USA, on my birthday (Dec 1). Here’s the result.

04/12/2025

This image of the sun might not look too impressive... until you realize it was taken at night – not looking up but looking down, through the entire Earth, using neutrinos rather than light. Amazing! Credit: NASA/ R. Svoboda and K. Gordan (LSU)

04/12/2025

AstroBin's Image of the Day: "DSC – Diving deep into KX And's deathrays" by Tim Schaeffer, Jim Matzger, Alpha Zhang, Brian Valente, Jasper Capel, Palmito, Nicolas Puig, Ryan Johannes Wierckx, Steeve Body, Meeps51 and Stephen Guberski

https://www.astrobin.com/nllu5u/

04/12/2025

Galaxies in the Furnace (APOD: 2025 Dec 04)
Image Credit & Copyright: Simone Curzi and the ShaRA Team
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251204.html

Explanation: An example of violence on a cosmic scale, enormous elliptical galaxy NGC 1316 lies about 75 million light-years away toward Fornax, the southern constellation of the Furnace. Investigating the startling sight, astronomers suspect the giant galaxy of colliding with smaller neighbor NGC 1317 seen just right of the large galaxy's center, producing far flung star streams in loops and shells. Light from their close encounter would have reached Earth some 100 million years ago. In the sharp telescopic image, the central regions of NGC 1316 and NGC 1317 appear separated by over 100,000 light-years. Complex dust lanes visible within also indicate that NGC 1316 is itself the result of a merger of galaxies in the distant past. Found on the outskirts of the Fornax galaxy cluster, NGC 1316 is known as Fornax A. One of the visually brightest of the Fornax cluster galaxies, it is one of the strongest and largest celestial radio sources with radio emission extending well beyond this one degree wide field-of-view.

https://app.astrobin.com/u/MRWSKYLOVER?i=0ym89c
https://astrotrex.wordpress.com/2024/12/16/shara11-fornax-a-and-a-potential-discovery/

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