I've not been posting here much, been too busy road tripping around Oz. Tomorrow I'll be visiting a full size replica of Stone Henge in Esperance, Western Australia. :)

Follow me on my camping road trip around Australia in my 2022 BYD Atto3. If I complete the journey I'm pretty sure I'll be the first person to have driven a fully electric BYD vehicle around Australia. #EV #BYD #ElectricCar #Atto3 www.facebook.com/profile.php?...

I thought it was The Onion at first. The USA is going to find itself in all sorts of strife if, in 180 days, they follow through with this nonsense. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

An oldie but a goodies. The spectacular Eta Carina Nebula. #astronomy #astrophotography

Comet Atlas. Feb 7th The Moon has washed out the sky making the comet very difficult to image. This is 17x10sec images, stacked then inverted to make it more visible. Canon 700D @ ISO 1600 Canon Nifty 50 @ F3.5 #comet #astronomy #astrophotography

3 Starlink Satellites 2 Sporadic meteors and 1 comet almost too faint to see. #comet #astronomy #astrophotography

A very short timelapse of Comet ATLAS. Captured last night, 29th Jan 2025. Shot through a sucker hole. Check out all those blasted satellites. :( #comet #astronomy #astrophotography

Photos taken 2 hours apart. Putricia is opening! The chatters in the YT live stream are beyond excited. #Putricia #WWTF

It seems that Putricia is opening tonight! There's been noticeable movement with the petals over the past 3 hours. The chat is a hoot too. Not at all cult like. LOL. If you have the next 5 or so hours to spare, why not check in and join the cult, I mean crowd. #WWTF www.youtube.com/watch?v=mryl...

Last one for this evening. Comet ATLAS, featuring both the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds on the left (satellite galaxies of our Milky Way) #comet #astronomy #galaxy

More Comet ATLAS :) Taken on the 21st Jan, 2025. 11x13sec subs, stacked. Canon 700D @ ISO1600, Canon Nifty 50 lens @ F2.8 #comet #astronomy #astrophotography

:) The bright star on the right is Saturn, Comet ATLAS in the middle and above the tree, the small fuzzy object is the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to our own Milky Way galaxy. Photo taken 21/1/25 at the cattle Sales Yard, Monto, Queensland. #comet #astronomy #astrophotography

Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS Imaged 20/1/2024 from Queensland Australia Sadly during the past 24 hours it's nucleus seems to have disintegrated making it appear much fainter. Still visible to the naked eye though. Canon 700D, Canon 50mm, F2.8, ISO800, 13 seconds. #comet #astronomy #astrophotography

Comet 2024 G3 ATLAS It's a shame I couldn't get all of it's magnificent tail, but beggars can't be choosers, I'm grateful to see this much . Fingers crossed for clear skies tomorrow evening. It was very bright to the naked eye too. No need to search for it. #comet #astronomy #astrophotography

My morning so far. The rest of the day will be spent laying on the couch playing Moraff's Dungeons of the Unforgiven on the big screen.

Negative Moonage. It's different, it's unusual, I like it. :) #Moon #astronomy #KathandKim

No need to chase this storm, it came to me. Photos taken from my front yard of a quite spectacular light show over the town of Monto, QLD, Australia. #storm #lightning #stormchasing #weather

Look at my rock! A stunning specimen of Cassiterite (tin ore) in matrix. The matrix itself is studded with small quartz crystals. I dug this one up myself at Elsmore, NSW, Australia. #rocks #fossicking #minerals #cassiterite youtu.be/RKkZTYM0Ilo?...

It was always a childhood dream to walk up to my own apple tree to pick and eat my own yummy crisp apple. :) The early fruit on this Coastal Cropper are only good for cooking but the ones pollinated late are great for eating. Best of both worlds. #gardening #homegrown

Oh my! Surprisingly smutty classical music. youtu.be/wxZmTESrLrY?...

Scummo's wetting his pants being so close to that much power. Look at him.

I gotta give it to the USGS. This is a really good timelapse of the beginning of the eruption at Kilauea today.

M17, AKA The Swan Nebula or Omega Nebula Located 5,500 light years away in the constellation Sagittarius. Visible in binoculars @ Mag 6 Imaged through my 127mm refractor, CDS modded Canon 1100D #astronomy #astrophotography #space

10 years ago today. Comet 2014 Q2 Lovejoy. Imaged 19th December 2014. #comet #astrophotography #astronomy

Hot off the hook. A double sided cushion made in cotton using mosaic crochet. I just need to find my fringe maker to finish it off. #crochet

Finally we know the origins of this interjection. :)

The very first fruit from my young Custard Apple tree has finally ripened. It tasted so good. She has 3 new fruit this season. They'll be ready by Autumn. #gardening

My home grown mangos are ripening. :) The tree is only 4 years old but she had around 20 fruit this season. :)

Comet 2011 W3 Lovejoy 27th Dec 2011 Timelapse "Clewd Disappear" An incantation first used by chemtrail conspiracy nutters and borrowed by astronomers for use during astronomical events such as comets and eclipses. It rarely worked though. #comet #astronomy #astrophotography

Comet 2011 W3 Lovejoy. Terry's first "Great" comet. What a beauty it was too. I spent every clear night outside imaging it. I can't believe that the local and national media here in Australia totally ignored it's presence. :( #comet #astrophotography #astronomy

The Dumbbell Nebula, M27 A Planetary Nebula located 1360 light years away in the constellation Vulpecula. Captured through my old Takahashi FS78 using my CDS modded Canon 1100D. I should never have sold that scope. :( #astronomy #astrophotography

Look at my rock! A blue and white sapphire with a sawtooth pattern, similar to the "Tomahawk Tiger" sapphire from Central Queensland. I found mine in Tasmania's Weld River a few years ago. Unlike the Tomahawk Tiger, my stone is quite tiny. #lapidary #sapphire #fossicking

Take a dive straight into the Trapezium!

I've never seen such depth in any image of the Andromeda Galaxy. Inspirational stuff. If you like it too, please show Leafs in 7 some appreciation by way of a like and a follow. :)

Barred Ring Galaxy NGC 1291 Inverted. Inverting an image helps reveal details that otherwise would be missed. eg the ringed part of the galaxy We do this with comet images a lot too, to bring out detail in it's tail. :) #astronomy #astrophotography #galaxy

Barred Ring Galaxy NGC1291 Located 33 million light years away in the constellation Eridanus. If you look carefully, there are at least 9 small fuzzy background galaxies in this photo. :) 6hrs and 15min of data, 127mm refractor, CDS 1100D. #astronomy #astrophotography #galaxy

Jupiter series featuring Io and its shadow transiting. Captured with my old 10" dob, NO tracking. 2x barlow and cameras zoom. I butted camera up to eyepiece, hand held. I put Jupiter in field of view and videoed until he left FOV, and repeat. #astrophotography #astronomy #jupiter #planetary

Jupiter and Io This is the resulting image from the video I posted earlier. Captured with BackyardEOS, individual frames stacked in Autostakkert, wavelets applied in Registax and final tarting up done in Photoshop. #astronomy #astrophotography #jupiter

Jupiter and its Moon, Io A video capture, taken through my 10" tracking Dobsonian. It's very shaky, because well, it's shot through an alt azi Dob, not meant for imaging. The video was then processed to create a still image, which I'll post soon. #astronomy #astrophotography #Jupiter #Planetary

The Anteater Nebula Complex and And Globular Cluster NGC6723 In Corona Australis The blue nebulae are NGC 6726 and NGC 6727. Captured with my ED80 with a CDS modified Canon 1100D. #astronomy #astrophotography

Aurora at the Silos, Monto, QLD. Back in May we had a huge solar storm, the resulting Aurora was able to be seen as far north as Central Queensland. #astronomy #aurora #auroraaustralis

Stonehenge Moonrise All the photos I took for the timelapse, I stacked one on top of each other. You can see the security guard in his green vest, moving around, keeping an eye on us, making sure we didn't get up to mischief. :) #stonehenge #moon

Tinna Thorudottir Thorvaldar is my guru when it comes to learning how to do mosaic crochet. She is a great teacher. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTig...

My current WIP. Mosaic crochet using cotton yarn. Free pattern - "Mosaic Classic Weave" from Cats-Rockin-Crochet. It's destined to become a cushion cover. #crochet

You want to just sit and be quiet and let the feeling of history and wonder wash over you. How many different purposes did this place have over the centuries? People coming here to grieve, to celebrate, to study. #stonehenge

Moi #stonehenge

Uluru 2017 "Solid rock, sitting on sacred ground. " Link to the song in the comments. #Uluru