Pterosaur Sky

Pterosaurs can see stars in the dark sky too. This is 35 minutes of exposure time stacked together.

Comet C/2025 R3 PanSTARRS

The 2025 R3 PanSTARRS comet on the evening of May 10 as it passed near the Orion Nebula. Captured on a Canon 60D, 45 frames @ 30sec each using a Tamron 70-200mm lens @ 125mm f2.8 Stacked in Seti Astro Suite pro.

Kissing Boulders

Some kissing boulders even furher up a remote creek that runs off the jump-up. I was able to squeeze between these two and continue up the creek to the top.

Oblong Boulder

An oblong boulder up a remote creek. Unfortunately the rock is so weathered and crumbly that they are not suitable for bouldering. Super chossy.

Square Boulder

A walk around the Jump-Up Dark-Sky Sanctuary can bring you to this boulder in a region not accessible by general public. A square looking boulder.

NASA Artemis II

The NASA Artemis II crew are up there behind the Moon right now (08:50AM GMT+10)!

Julius River

Julius River in the incredible Tarkine region of Tasmania's west coast.

Bicheno

The red lichen rocks in Bicheno on Tasmania's east coast.

Wineglass Bay

The ever amazing Wineglass Bay in Freycinet National Park.

Jacob's Ladder

The Jacob's Ladder switchback road up Ben Lomond in Tasmania. A spectacular drive and view.

Penny Farthing

It's not every day you see a bike carrier for penny farthing bicycles. But in Tassie they have a festival for them in Evandale.

Wombat

I finally saw some wombats near the start of the Overland Track at Cradle Mountain. They are very cute and amazingly fast and agile.

Pademelon

A cute pademelon came into say hello near our campsite.

Cradle Mountain

Another angle on Cradle Mountain from Dove Lake.

Cradle Mountain

Cradle Mountain view from Lake Wilks.

Cradle Mountain

A must do walk to visit Cradle Mountain brought us past a few handcrafted timber kayaks on Dove Lake.

Geelong

The ferris wheel on the Geelong beach, was a good spot to stop in while waiting for the ferry to Tasmania for a recent holiday.

2026 Lunar Eclipse

A total lunar eclipse last night on March 3 was worth a shot. Truly remarkable view from a dark sky.

Red Storm

An unusual red glow in a storm just before 10pm. A possible reflection from a fire below triggered by the lightning?

Burnt Trailer

A burnt trailer left at a road side stop north of Winton. Most likely a tyre fire that ran out of control.

Kronosaurus Korner

Hello Richmond. Long time no see. It must be nearly 10 years since I last visited the museum here.

Burning Horse

The Horsehead (Barnard 33) and Flame (NGC 2024) nebulae together with Alnitak. My best image so far of this wonderful region of sky. Taken with red, green and blue filters on a monochrome miniCam8. Also my first colour image from filters, possibly my first proper astrophotograph. It still needs more time and effort to develop into a propper image (if you go pixel peeking there is too much noise). But I am happy with this effort from my trusty old TeleVue60is refractor. And of course, the SetiAstro Pro processing software from Franklin Marek, best open source astro software on the planet.

New Year Fall

The new year rains also sent water off the edge of the Jump-Up and the Diamantinasaurus Falls once again flowed. I couldn't miss the chance to capture this one again.

Rockhole Falls

New Year's Day brought another downpour, 144mm of rain. And this time I made long walk in the rain and mud to the rockholes. At the end of the rockholes of course the water falls of the edge of the Jump-Up. So I had to capture this one first thing in the morning while the rain was still falling to maintain the flow.

Diamantinasaurus Falls

A wonderful Christmas present for Christmas morning on December 25, 2025. A large fall of rain allowed the falls to flow so I had to capture the event from the bottom of the falls, covered in water spray and mist among the cycads of the cretaceous garden.

Eremophila Garden

A lover of deserts, eremophila thrive here on the Jump-Up at the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum.

Western River

Somewhere ahead there is a submerged cattle grid. It was been swallowed by the Western River 12km south of Winton at the base of the Jump-Up Dark-Sky Sanctuary.

Ankylosaur Rain

It's raining ankylosaurs! No not really, but they do seem to pop up out of nowhere sometimes. Here are two in Dinosaur Canyon at the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum.

Rockholes Cascade

Near the far end of the Jump-Up where public don't get to see, there are a series of rockholes that cascade to the edge of the Jump-Up. At the end, another waterfall will be revealed tomorrow.

Britton Way Falls

Waterfall number two from New Year's Day. The falls at the big bend in Britton Way. Quite a torrent here.

Deep Gully Falls

Happy New Year!
And what a wet start it has been, 144mm of rain in 24 hours on the Jump-Up. So with a day off I decided to go chasing waterfalls. This was number one, the falls running down Deep Gully.