![]() ![]() You don’t need anything to gaze at the stars.” Bill Stentīut for those of us who didn’t have an astronomy club – or, let’s face it, just weren’t that interested back then – it can feel a bit overwhelming knowing where to start. “Listen, if you want to get into astronomy, you probably already are and didn’t know it yet. “We’d drag them onto the school oval at night, or make solar projections during the day.” “We had a 4-inch Unitron refractor in a dome, as well as an ancient brass refractor and a 6-inch Newtonian”, he recollects. For those gathered to see it – along the Pilbara coast and out on ships in the Indian Ocean, it will be a special, once-in-a-lifetime event – perhaps even one to spark a desire to see more.įor Bill Stent, an economist by training but now a key member of Australia’s only telescope factory, Sidereal Trading (which he reckons is ‘like working in the Ferrari factory’), his obsession with astronomy began with exposure to a club at school. The Apsolar eclipse will no doubt be much like every other. Wildlife and pets voice confusion as senses and circadian rhythms collide. ![]() The 20,000-strong crowd gathered in Ningaloo, a small town in Western Australia, fall quiet as the first shadowy arc crosses the Sun.
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