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It's back... for the astrophotographers out there in WA, get yout entries in for the 2022 Astrofest Astrophotography Exhibition now!!!! Use this link: https://bit.ly/3QUFiAe

Category awards winners (Trophy only) this year will all receive a voucher to visit one of our Night Sky Tours:

*Best Deep Sky photo
*Best Solar photo
*Best Lunar photo
*Best Planetary photo
*Best Nightscape photo
*Best Time lapse video sequence

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Find out what is in July's night sky here: https://bit.ly/3y0OcUh

We'll show you where the planets are, what's good to look at and what astronomical events will be happening

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Did you get to see the planetary alignment this morning?

We went to Golden View Lookout which looks over Mundaring Weir. Unfortunately, the weir was covered in fog, but we got this lovely photo of the planets (Mercury was in the Fog) at sunrise with eucalyptus trees and a bit of that fog.

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Can you create a planetary system that lasts for 1000 years?

Try Super Planet Crash (https://stefanom.org/spc/game.php), a featured game that allows you to try. You can create up to ten planets and them anywhere near the central star. Planet types can be selected on the left in order of increasing mass: Earth, Super-Earth, Ice giant, Giant planet, Brown dwarf, or Dwarf star.

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We want to give a massive shout-out to one of our volunteers, Dr Adele Goodwin. Adele is an Associate Lecturer with the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (@icrargram) and won the Astronomical Society of Australia’s Charlene Heisler Prize for the most outstanding PhD thesis.

Adelle predicted an outburst from neutron star SAX J1808.4−3658, enabling five groups of researchers and seven telescopes to examine the onset of such an event in detail for the first time. Neutron stars are extreme objects. Just one handful of their matter weighs as much as five Mount Everests. What’s more, they are dark and hard to find. When they’re part of a binary system, they steal matter from their partner star, producing bright X-ray emissions and, occasionally, explosions a thousand times the energy of our sun.

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On Friday the 24th of June, all the visible planets and the Moon will be neatly spaced out in an alignment at 6:15 am. You'll need a decent telescope to make out Uranus and Neptune, but they'll be there as well.

For the Astrophotographers out there, you should try and get images of each planet on the same night to go with a nightscape photo of the alignment.

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Are you wondering where the day is going today?

Today is the winter solstice for the southern hemisphere and it occurs at 5:13 pm (AWST). This means we experience our shortest day of the year. In Perth, the day length today is only 10 hours 03 minutes and 22 seconds. In Karratha, they get to experience 48 minutes and 57 seconds more daylight than Perth, and in Albany, they experience 15 minutes and 35 seconds less daylight than Perth.

The June Solstice marks the beginning of astronomical winter for the southern hemisphere and the start of summer for the northern hemisphere. This is an exact moment when the Sun’s declination equals 23.4 degrees south as seen from the Earth. The line of latitude where the Sun passes directly overhead during the June solstice is known as the Tropic of Cancer, although in modern times, the Sun is in the constellation of Gemini in mid-June, thanks to precession.

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