"Everyone should visit at least once in their life!" Now that Siding Spring is Open to Tourism, what are our guests saying!? Dark Sky...

Since I started visiting Coonabarabran, I've been aware of the Virtual Solar System Drive. A, to scale model of the real Solar System,...

Ask an astronomer what they saw after experiencing a total solar eclipse, and you’ll get words like “diamond ring”, “Bailey’s Beads” and...

Mindless travel offends me deeply . When guides march ahead with a sign to follow; it frustrates me no end when they dictate what time...

20 years ago, almost to the day, I visited Niagara Falls. In doing so, I was fulfilling one of my goals from when I joined the ‘red and...

“72% of the birds in this park are rescued from being trafficked.” The information sign in Spanish, Portuguese and English stands for all...

Whilst the silent dancing clouds of a aurora are spectacular at night, the northern lights are not the only thing you should keep your eyes

I mean really notice them – like there are millions up there and you can’t believe that they’ve been there all this time. Welcome to Austral

As a dark-sky savvy audience, you probably expect me to say: There was light. But no, there wasn’t. Rather, it began because of a shadow. A

My chicken laid an egg. That’s what chickens do… right? The man in the feedlot said they often start to lay in Autumn, and he was right.

In 2014, Fred and I led an astronomy and volcanology tour of Hawaii. We were fortunate to get an up close and personal visit of the

1 week 4 days 18 people 100,000,000 stars – maybe more Together with 18 people, I celebrated the last night of International Dark Sky Week

I can't help but reflect on the privilege of spending just over 2 hours with 250 people in the dark. Not something that you do all the time!