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 💿

CDs more popular than vinyl. Data. 📈. www.headphonesty.com/2025/02/cds-...

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

Shostakovich 19 CD box set #CDsAtoZ 💿 Symphonies, concertos, incidental music, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Andris Nelsons & BSO and soloists/chorus. Deutsche Grammophon 2025. #Shostakovich #boxset #BOXTAKOVICH #music #classicalmusic #orchestralmusic #unboxing #overalls

#sunset July 28th 2025

My Dad had a 10-inch vinyl of Tom Lehrer, and one day me and my brothers played it out of curiosity. Brilliant! www.pbs.org/newshour/art... Tom Lehrer, mathematician and singer-songwriter known for colorful satire, dies at 97 | PBS News

M22, a globular cluster near the Milky Way's galactic bulge in Sagittarius, 10,600 light years away. A big scattering of ancient reg giant stars against the younger blue stars. July 15th 2025 #astrophotography

The Swan Nebula (M17) in Sagittarius, a star forming region with emission (pink) and reflection (blue) nebulosity, lit up by the stars within. 6,000 light years away, and measuring 15 light years across. July 15th 2025 #astrophotography

902. Wet Leg: Moisturizer. The second album from Wet Leg and it is even better than the first, if that was ever possible. Every song is great and it’s hard to get it out of the CD player. #CDsAtoZ 💿

901. Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 5 and 6. Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andris Nelsons. From Nelson’s massive Shostakovich box set; wonderful new performances of two very wonderful symphonies. #CDsAtoZ 💿

Library after dark Story Time at State Library Victoria 📚

Part of the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud, looking towards the centre of our galaxy. #astrophotography

M8, the Lagoon Nebula in Sagittarius. July 15th 2025 #astrophotography

The very beautiful Trifid Nebula (M20) in Sagittarius, 4,000 light years away. A combination of star cluster, reflection nebula (blue) and emission nebula (pink). I love this; it's one of my favourite things to see. July 15th 2025 #astrophotography

Sunset July 15th 2025 #sunsets

Arrived today: 19 CD box set of Shostakovich’s symphonies, concertos, orchestral pieces and ‘Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk’ 🤩 Boston Symphony Orchestra under Andris Nelsons. Will do a video unboxing soon because omg #Shostakovich #CDsAtoZ 💿

I never knew this — Tales and Relayer artwork matches up. Whaddya know hey? #progrock #prog #Yes

Moon, July 7th 2025, a beautiful waxing gibbous. #astrophotography

Lunar astronomy tonight, the Moon being at zenith. #astrophotography

Sunset July 4th 2025 #Melbourne #sunsets 🇦🇺

📸 #Melbourne July 1st 2025

900. Aram Khachaturian: Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto, Masquerade Suite, Symphony No. 2. Various conductors and orchestras. There is no one who wrote music like Khachaturian — so lush and beautiful. The piano concerto here uses the flexatone, an instrument that makes a creepy sound. #CDsAtoZ 💿

World of the Book exhibition, celebrating 20 years at State Library Victoria #library #booksky @statelibraryvic.bsky.social

Just ordered this baby. Because I’m worth it #Shostakovich