New bookshelf speakers: so very edifying! 💿 🔊

2OO1: A Space Odyssey. Keep Douglas Rain (HAL-9000)

916. Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: The Lord of the Rings — The Return of the King. Music composed by Howard Shore. There are so many beautiful moments in this music, from the lighting of the beacons of Gondor to the grey havens theme to the finale sung by Annie Lennox. #CDsAtoZ 💿

Saturn, October 28th 2025. A beautiful sight with its rings almost edge-on. 1,300,000,000 kilometres away, or 70 light minutes. #astrophotography

915. Gustav Holst: The Planets. London Symphony Orchestra and Ambrosian Singers conducted by André Previn. That’s not a planet on the album cover, but Previn’s recording is as bright and sumptuous as always, even though it’s over 50 years old. ‘Mercury’ and ‘Neptune’ are my favourites. #CDsAtoZ 💿

Crescent Moon waxing over three nights, October 27 - 29 2025 #astrophotography

Waxing crescent Moon, October 29th 2025 #astrophotography Melbourne 🇦🇺

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Moon, October 27th 2025. The prominent crater with the mountain in its centre is Theophilus, 4,200 metres deep. #astrophotography

914. Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. 50th anniversary super-deluxe box set, 4 CDs and 1 BluRay Dolby Atmos mix. 70 page booklet etc etc. Magnificent!! Features the album plus the whole thing live. Sounds amazing. #CDsAtoZ 💿

The White House just joined BlueSky. Instant block. Solidarity to our pro-democracy American friends: You did great with #NoKings 🇦🇺 🇺🇸

913. Leonard Bernstein: Candide. London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Leonard Bernstein. Delightful operetta, here in its final revised version, recorded shortly before Bernstein’s death. The story, based on Voltaire, is hilarious. Wonderful recording. #CDsAtoZ 💿

912. Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor. National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich. This is the seventh version of the 5th Symphony that I have on CD, because there is no rule or legislation that says I shouldn’t. #CDsAtoZ 💿

911. Benjamin Britten: Four Sea Interludes & Passacaglia from Peter Grimes. London Symphony Orchestra conducted by André Previn. Glorious music and here produced with Previn’s ability to make every performance luminous. #CDsAtoZ 💿

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910. Vissarion Shebalin: Orchestral Music Volume Two. Siberian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dmitry Vasiliev. First recordings of orchestral and ballet suites by Shebalin, the great Siberian composer and best mate to Shostakovich. Lush and beautiful and evocative. #CDsAtoZ 💿

Arrived in the mail today!! Ordered it in February. So worth the wait — an amazing package. #Genesis #CDsAtoZ 💿

State Library Victoria 📚 #library

909. Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl. It’s a banger of an album, with some great instrumentation. Brighter in mood than her two previous albums and quite funky. Damn this woman is consistently brilliant and filled with ideas. #CDsAtoZ 💿

908. Leonard Cohen: Thanks for the Dance. Released posthumously and mostly containing words by Leonard and music by his son Adam. Just amazing and it really tests out my subwoofers. #CDsAtoZ 💿

Sometimes, Apple CarPlay gets it *wrong* #Genesis #XTC

907. Lana Del Rey: Born to Die. Dreamy and cinematic music is what Lana Del Rey is all about. ‘Video Games’ is something else altogether. #CDsAtoZ 💿

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The Eagle Nebula (M16) in Serpens, 5,700 light years away. September 14th 2025 #astrophotography

Trifid Nebula (M20) in Sagittarius. Can’t stop taking photos of this beautiful object. September 14th 2025 #astrophotography

Lagoon Nebula (M8) in Sagittarius. September 14th 2025 #astrophotography

Composite of the lunar eclipse September 8th 2025 #astrophotography #moon #lunareclipse

Total lunar eclipse, September 8th 2025 at 4:11am AEST #melbourne #australia #moon #lunareclipse

Moon, September 4th 2025, a waxing gibbous. Details of the areas around craters Copernicus, Plato and Gassendi. #moon #astrophotography #melbourneaustralia

906. Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes. The Britten centenary production recorded live at the 66th Aldeburgh Festival. An opera about “an ordinary weak person” (to quote the tenor Peter Pears). If this sounds hellish to you I’m here to say it’s fantastic and so very unusual. #CDsAtoZ 💿

Waxing crescent Moon, August 27th 2025 #astrophotography

905. Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: The Lord of the Rings — The Two Towers. Composed by Howard Shore. I have loved this soundtrack for many years and haven’t had it on CD until now. ‘The Riders of Rohan’ theme is the highlight, along with the very creepy ‘Gollum’s Song’. #CDsAtoZ 💿

NGC 6752, a globular cluster 13,000 light years away in Pavo. Hidden behind it is a dwarf galaxy, 2 million light years further away, which was only discovered a few years ago by the Hubble Space Telescope. August 19th 2025 #astrophotography

M11, the Wild Duck Cluster, 6,200 light years away in Scutum. A beautiful open cluster containing thousands of stars. August 19th 2025 #astrophotography

M16, the Eagle Nebula in Serpens, here in black and white to show the structure of the dark nebula in the centre. A beautiful star-forming region, 6,000 light years away. August 19th 2025 #astrophotography

#AFL Bulldogs v Freo GO DOGS 🔴⚪️🔵

Campbell Arcade in #Melbourne. Newly restored in time for the opening of Town Hall Station and Metro Tunnel.

Three galaxies, making up the Grus Triplet (NGC 7590, NGC 7559 and NGC 7582). Each galaxy contains hundreds of billions of stars, and they are roughly 60,000,000 light years away. August 19th 2025 #astrophotography

NGC 6541, a globular cluster in Corona Australis containing millions of stars. 24,800 light years away. August 19th 2025 #astrophotography

The Bug Nebula, NGC 6302, a planetary nebula 3,400 light years away in Scorpius. It's a bipolar planetary nebula, with gas expanding from two directions. The dwarf star within is very hot, around 250,000ºC. August 19th 2025 #astrophotography

The beautiful Trifid Nebula in Sagittarius. August 19th 2025 #astrophotography

904. Frank Zappa: Wazoo. Live recordings of the Zappa/Wazoo/Hot Rats Orchestra from 1972, featuring music that featured on The Grand Wazoo and Waka/Jawaka. Amazing! #CDsAtoZ 💿

Very cold night — but worth it! 🥶 #astrophotography

Full Moon, August 9th 2025. Melbourne 🇦🇺 #astrophotography

Dmitri Shostakovich 1906 — 1975. August 9th 2025 is the fiftieth anniversary of Shostakovich’s passing. Timeless and powerful music, speaking across time and space to those who want to hear. #shostakovich #shostakovich50years #shostakovichismybrovich

Did a space talk for the little kids at my daughter’s kinder and it was so wholesome! Did a show and tell of my telescope #astrophotography

903. Dmitri Shostakovich: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2. Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andris Nelsons. Baiba Skride, violin. Beautiful performances of the violin concertos. Skride plays them with great feeling and less of the usual attack. Number 2 is just gorgeous. #CDsAtoZ 💿

Montes Apenninus, the lunar Apennines. August 2nd 2025 #astrophotography

Moon, August 2nd 2025, 59% illuminated and one week until full. The long mountain range branching from the shadow is the lunar Apennines; 54 years ago today, the Apollo 15 mission finished its final day on the Moon, its landing place being a valley of the Apennines. #astrophotography