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Gallery Page, This page will in future feature some of the images taken at the Bathurst Observatory Research Facility over the past few years.

It is still under construction, so only hosts some images at present. Come back sometime soon and view other images as I add them. 

Partial Solar Eclipse 4th December 2002. 

 

Transit of Venus 8th June 2004. The dark circle is the shadow of Venus against the sun.

 

Comet Macholz near the Pleiades on the 5th Jan 2005

 

Comet T7 Linear, 21st May 2004. It was visible at the same time as Q4 Neat below.

Comet Q4 Neat on the 25th of April 2004.

 

Aurora on the 29th October 2003. One of the largest Auroras seen from the observatory. It was active most of the night!

 

Comet McNaught of January 2007. The best comet seen in many years!

The left image was taken just after sunset on the 20th of January 2007, while the image on the right was taken from Hargraves Lookout at Blackheath on the 25th of January 2007.

 

The weather was clear for the total Lunar Eclipse on the 28th of August 2007 and at the observatory we obtained about 152 images of the eclipse from the time the moon started to enter Earth's shadow at 18:52 local time, until the moon left Earth shadow at 21:23. 

 

Thunder Storm and Lightning, 19th Nov 2007

 

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