found this book (a reader for some course with a “melbourne teaching college” stamp on it) in the book pile in my office at uni, and it’s got selections from works by galileo, kepler, copernicus and newton in the original latin! score for someone who teaches astronomy history! 🤩

this week: solar system on monday with year 5s, light and colour with year 2s on tues, planning telescope observations with first years today and tomorrow, the moon and calendars tomorrow and friday with second years, and finishing off the week with planetarium evenings friday and saturday nights!

Oh how I am missing photographing my galaxy friends from my backyard. Here’s some from my archive … a collection of southern sky beauts, captured from the middle of the city with an 8” SCT.

Spirals really are beautiful & it always blows my mind that there are hundreds of millions of stars in each.

six hours of teaching today! first, second and third years, all learning about how things are moving in the solar system. i dressed to match!