Every month Elizabeth Cocking, long time member of Sydney City Skywatchers and current secretary, researches interesting historical...

JULY 2020... The Bureau of Meteorology has not yet released its July 2020 report, however, there was 183 mm of rainfall in Sydney (the...

13th August 1898 The asteroid Eros is discovered by the German astronomer Gustav Witt at the Urania Observatory in Berlin, and...

This month . . . . Naming the three planets in our solar system discovered in “modern” times was not a straightforward process. There...

Monty has been observing regularly but over the past few months his reports have not been happy ones because the Sun has not been very...

4 July 1054 Chinese astronomers notice a star explode becoming a supernova in the constellation Taurus. It remained visible in the night...

This month . . . . Orion Named after the mythological Greek hunter, the constellation Orion is one of the most famous, and...

2 June 1966 Surveyor 1, the first of the Surveyor robotic spacecraft, soft lands on the Moon. It was the first American spacecraft to...