#gingin — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #gingin, aggregated by home.social.
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CW: Racism in Queensland, Australia
Saddened to see these two plaques in the rest area at Gin Gin. Extremely one sided, hostile tone. A stark reminder of our embarrassing history. We can do better than this.
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The evening before, at the Gingin Roadhouse, where we were staying, this Australian Ringneck, orTwenty-Eight was very co-operative and took time out from feeding on nuts for their close-up.
#SamsungNX1 f/5.6 1/500 ISO800 200mm
#bird #BirdsOfAustralia #TwentyEight #WesternAustralia #Gingin #wildlife
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The evening before, at the Gingin Roadhouse, where we were staying, this Australian Ringneck, orTwenty-Eight was very co-operative and took time out from feeding on nuts for their close-up.
#SamsungNX1 f/5.6 1/500 ISO800 200mm
#bird #BirdsOfAustralia #TwentyEight #WesternAustralia #Gingin #wildlife
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The evening before, at the Gingin Roadhouse, where we were staying, this Australian Ringneck, orTwenty-Eight was very co-operative and took time out from feeding on nuts for their close-up.
#SamsungNX1 f/5.6 1/500 ISO800 200mm
#bird #BirdsOfAustralia #TwentyEight #WesternAustralia #Gingin #wildlife
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The evening before, at the Gingin Roadhouse, where we were staying, this Australian Ringneck, orTwenty-Eight was very co-operative and took time out from feeding on nuts for their close-up.
#SamsungNX1 f/5.6 1/500 ISO800 200mm
#bird #BirdsOfAustralia #TwentyEight #WesternAustralia #Gingin #wildlife
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The evening before, at the Gingin Roadhouse, where we were staying, this Australian Ringneck, orTwenty-Eight was very co-operative and took time out from feeding on nuts for their close-up.
#SamsungNX1 f/5.6 1/500 ISO800 200mm
#bird #BirdsOfAustralia #TwentyEight #WesternAustralia #Gingin #wildlife
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Back at the #GravityDiscoveryCentre , @leece picked up this lady to save her from getting stepped on on a pathway.
Convincing her that a bush was a better place than Leece's hat was something of a challenge!
Pixel 6a 1/2128 f/1.7 ISO48.
#InsectsOfAustralia #WesternAustralia #Gingin #preyingMantis #photography #wildlife
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Back at the #GravityDiscoveryCentre , @leece picked up this lady to save her from getting stepped on on a pathway.
Convincing her that a bush was a better place than Leece's hat was something of a challenge!
Pixel 6a 1/2128 f/1.7 ISO48.
#InsectsOfAustralia #WesternAustralia #Gingin #preyingMantis #photography #wildlife
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Back at the #GravityDiscoveryCentre , @leece picked up this lady to save her from getting stepped on on a pathway.
Convincing her that a bush was a better place than Leece's hat was something of a challenge!
Pixel 6a 1/2128 f/1.7 ISO48.
#InsectsOfAustralia #WesternAustralia #Gingin #preyingMantis #photography #wildlife
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Back at the #GravityDiscoveryCentre , @leece picked up this lady to save her from getting stepped on on a pathway.
Convincing her that a bush was a better place than Leece's hat was something of a challenge!
Pixel 6a 1/2128 f/1.7 ISO48.
#InsectsOfAustralia #WesternAustralia #Gingin #preyingMantis #photography #wildlife
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Back at the #GravityDiscoveryCentre , @leece picked up this lady to save her from getting stepped on on a pathway.
Convincing her that a bush was a better place than Leece's hat was something of a challenge!
Pixel 6a 1/2128 f/1.7 ISO48.
#InsectsOfAustralia #WesternAustralia #Gingin #preyingMantis #photography #wildlife
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A view across a clearing in the banksia woodland that makes up most of the bush around Gingin. We have a very wide coastal plain here in #Perth , and get a lot of different ecologies within it!
#SamsungNX1 f/8.0 1/320 ISO100 12mm
#BirdsOfAustralia #WesternAustralia #Gingin #LandscapePhotograghy #Landscape
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This is a paperbark (or modong in #Noongar ) log we happened upon.
#SamsungNX1 f/8.0 1/25 ISO100 22mm
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This is a paperbark (or modong in #Noongar ) log we happened upon.
#SamsungNX1 f/8.0 1/25 ISO100 22mm
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This is a paperbark (or modong in #Noongar ) log we happened upon.
#SamsungNX1 f/8.0 1/25 ISO100 22mm
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This is a paperbark (or modong in #Noongar ) log we happened upon.
#SamsungNX1 f/8.0 1/25 ISO100 22mm
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This is a paperbark (or modong in #Noongar ) log we happened upon.
#SamsungNX1 f/8.0 1/25 ISO100 22mm
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First up is some #AustralianBirdlife in the form of a Brown Honeyeater.
These little birds are one of the smaller honeyeaters, and probably the smallest in W.A.
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First up is some #AustralianBirdlife in the form of a Brown Honeyeater.
These little birds are one of the smaller honeyeaters, and probably the smallest in W.A.
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First up is some #AustralianBirdlife in the form of a Brown Honeyeater.
These little birds are one of the smaller honeyeaters, and probably the smallest in W.A.
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First up is some #AustralianBirdlife in the form of a Brown Honeyeater.
These little birds are one of the smaller honeyeaters, and probably the smallest in W.A.
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First up is some #AustralianBirdlife in the form of a Brown Honeyeater.
These little birds are one of the smaller honeyeaters, and probably the smallest in W.A.
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During the #bushwalk near the Gravity Discovery Centre that @leece mentioned a couple of days ago, I managed to grab a few shots of some of our local wildlife, and a couple of very nice landscapes and still-lifes.
So here comes the #photography.
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As I said, I also put my Theta S on top of the car. This is a full 360x360 image - I don't know how it will render in Mastodon, and if it will let you view it as a spherical image. (Edit: No, it does not.)
This was a 20 minute live stack, so we get startrails, and a bonus passing jet.
Our car has a glass roof, so as a little extra, you can see our tablets inside the car, viewing the images we are collecting from our telescopes.
#theta360 #thetaS #gingin #astronomy #Astrodon #astrophotography
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After departing the Gravity Discovery Centre, we went back the Gingin Roadhouse, where we had a motel room booked. Just across the road is a small layover area, so we took the car across with our DwarfII telescopes, and played the "how long can we shoot before the clouds roll in" game.
Why did we take the car all over 50 metres down the road? So that we'd have somewhere warm to sit while the telescopes did their thing.
I shot two targets - NGC300 aka Caldwell 70 or the Sculptor Pinwheel Galaxy and NGC55 (Caldwell 72) or the String of Pearls Galaxy.
I only managed 180ish frames before the clouds rolled over us, but I am very happy with both results.
I also put the Theta on the roof of the car...
#DwarfII #astronomy #astrophotography #Astrodon #Snapseed #gingin #NGC300 #NGC55
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After departing the Gravity Discovery Centre, we went back the Gingin Roadhouse, where we had a motel room booked. Just across the road is a small layover area, so we took the car across with our DwarfII telescopes, and played the "how long can we shoot before the clouds roll in" game.
Why did we take the car all over 50 metres down the road? So that we'd have somewhere warm to sit while the telescopes did their thing.
I shot two targets - NGC300 aka Caldwell 70 or the Sculptor Pinwheel Galaxy and NGC55 (Caldwell 72) or the String of Pearls Galaxy.
I only managed 180ish frames before the clouds rolled over us, but I am very happy with both results.
I also put the Theta on the roof of the car...
#DwarfII #astronomy #astrophotography #Astrodon #Snapseed #gingin #NGC300 #NGC55
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After departing the Gravity Discovery Centre, we went back the Gingin Roadhouse, where we had a motel room booked. Just across the road is a small layover area, so we took the car across with our DwarfII telescopes, and played the "how long can we shoot before the clouds roll in" game.
Why did we take the car all over 50 metres down the road? So that we'd have somewhere warm to sit while the telescopes did their thing.
I shot two targets - NGC300 aka Caldwell 70 or the Sculptor Pinwheel Galaxy and NGC55 (Caldwell 72) or the String of Pearls Galaxy.
I only managed 180ish frames before the clouds rolled over us, but I am very happy with both results.
I also put the Theta on the roof of the car...
#DwarfII #astronomy #astrophotography #Astrodon #Snapseed #gingin #NGC300 #NGC55
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After departing the Gravity Discovery Centre, we went back the Gingin Roadhouse, where we had a motel room booked. Just across the road is a small layover area, so we took the car across with our DwarfII telescopes, and played the "how long can we shoot before the clouds roll in" game.
Why did we take the car all over 50 metres down the road? So that we'd have somewhere warm to sit while the telescopes did their thing.
I shot two targets - NGC300 aka Caldwell 70 or the Sculptor Pinwheel Galaxy and NGC55 (Caldwell 72) or the String of Pearls Galaxy.
I only managed 180ish frames before the clouds rolled over us, but I am very happy with both results.
I also put the Theta on the roof of the car...
#DwarfII #astronomy #astrophotography #Astrodon #Snapseed #gingin #NGC300 #NGC55
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After departing the Gravity Discovery Centre, we went back the Gingin Roadhouse, where we had a motel room booked. Just across the road is a small layover area, so we took the car across with our DwarfII telescopes, and played the "how long can we shoot before the clouds roll in" game.
Why did we take the car all over 50 metres down the road? So that we'd have somewhere warm to sit while the telescopes did their thing.
I shot two targets - NGC300 aka Caldwell 70 or the Sculptor Pinwheel Galaxy and NGC55 (Caldwell 72) or the String of Pearls Galaxy.
I only managed 180ish frames before the clouds rolled over us, but I am very happy with both results.
I also put the Theta on the roof of the car...
#DwarfII #astronomy #astrophotography #Astrodon #Snapseed #gingin #NGC300 #NGC55
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I also took my Theta S photosphere camera with me, which gave the opportunity for some amazing wide angle astroscapes. Here is one from in front of the centre, with their radio telescope in the foreground and Weitj (the Emu) in the background.
#Theta360 #ThetaS #astronomy #Astrodon #Astroscape #astrophotography #GravityDiscoveryCentre #gingin
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I also took my Theta S photosphere camera with me, which gave the opportunity for some amazing wide angle astroscapes. Here is one from in front of the centre, with their radio telescope in the foreground and Weitj (the Emu) in the background.
#Theta360 #ThetaS #astronomy #Astrodon #Astroscape #astrophotography #GravityDiscoveryCentre #gingin
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I also took my Theta S photosphere camera with me, which gave the opportunity for some amazing wide angle astroscapes. Here is one from in front of the centre, with their radio telescope in the foreground and Weitj (the Emu) in the background.
#Theta360 #ThetaS #astronomy #Astrodon #Astroscape #astrophotography #GravityDiscoveryCentre #gingin
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I also took my Theta S photosphere camera with me, which gave the opportunity for some amazing wide angle astroscapes. Here is one from in front of the centre, with their radio telescope in the foreground and Weitj (the Emu) in the background.
#Theta360 #ThetaS #astronomy #Astrodon #Astroscape #astrophotography #GravityDiscoveryCentre #gingin
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I also took my Theta S photosphere camera with me, which gave the opportunity for some amazing wide angle astroscapes. Here is one from in front of the centre, with their radio telescope in the foreground and Weitj (the Emu) in the background.
#Theta360 #ThetaS #astronomy #Astrodon #Astroscape #astrophotography #GravityDiscoveryCentre #gingin
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One of the can camera solargraphs. Very heavily water and ant damaged, but startlingly beautiful nevertheless.
#Solargraph #Solargraphy #CanCamera #Snapseed #astronomy #Astrodon #astrophotography #GravityDiscoveryCentre #gingin
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One of the can camera solargraphs. Very heavily water and ant damaged, but startlingly beautiful nevertheless.
#Solargraph #Solargraphy #CanCamera #Snapseed #astronomy #Astrodon #astrophotography #GravityDiscoveryCentre #gingin
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One of the can camera solargraphs. Very heavily water and ant damaged, but startlingly beautiful nevertheless.
#Solargraph #Solargraphy #CanCamera #Snapseed #astronomy #Astrodon #astrophotography #GravityDiscoveryCentre #gingin
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One of the can camera solargraphs. Very heavily water and ant damaged, but startlingly beautiful nevertheless.
#Solargraph #Solargraphy #CanCamera #Snapseed #astronomy #Astrodon #astrophotography #GravityDiscoveryCentre #gingin
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One of the can camera solargraphs. Very heavily water and ant damaged, but startlingly beautiful nevertheless.
#Solargraph #Solargraphy #CanCamera #Snapseed #astronomy #Astrodon #astrophotography #GravityDiscoveryCentre #gingin
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This is one of the Puck images, with the Giant Pendulum in the foreground and the Leaning Tower behind.
Postprocessed in Snapseed.
#Solargraph #solargraphy #SolarcanPuck #Astrodon #astrophotography #photography #snapseed #GravityDiscoveryCentre #gingin
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This is one of the Puck images, with the Giant Pendulum in the foreground and the Leaning Tower behind.
Postprocessed in Snapseed.
#Solargraph #solargraphy #SolarcanPuck #Astrodon #astrophotography #photography #snapseed #GravityDiscoveryCentre #gingin
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This is one of the Puck images, with the Giant Pendulum in the foreground and the Leaning Tower behind.
Postprocessed in Snapseed.
#Solargraph #solargraphy #SolarcanPuck #Astrodon #astrophotography #photography #snapseed #GravityDiscoveryCentre #gingin
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This is one of the Puck images, with the Giant Pendulum in the foreground and the Leaning Tower behind.
Postprocessed in Snapseed.
#Solargraph #solargraphy #SolarcanPuck #Astrodon #astrophotography #photography #snapseed #GravityDiscoveryCentre #gingin
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Last night we visited the Gravity Discovery Centre and Observatory in Gingin for one of their Observatory Tour nights.
You get a full access ticket to the discovery Centre as a part of the tour ticket, so we made use of that to have a look around at the exhibits. The whole thing is a bit like a very focused SciTech or Powerhouse Museum sort of idea.
We also collected the five solargraph cameras that we set up six months ago. Three of these were Solarcan Pucks, and two were home-brew can cameras.
One of the Pucks was, alas, full of water, and the film was washed away. One of the can cameras was also heavily water filled, while the other had been partially crushed. The other two Pucks were in perfect condition.
What was unexpected was that both can cameras had acquired significant populations of tiny ants. One of them was even being used as an egg chamber! Despite this I was able to recover images from both, and the results are quite striking.
The tour, meanwhile, was very well presented, with a lot of great educational content mixed in with some fairly memorable standup. The contrast between how they would deal with moon landing conspiracy theorists ("We are here to educate") and flat earthers ("Get out now! Right now!") was particularly amusing.
There were five telescopes set up - 4 in the 11-12 inch range and one 60cm.
There was plenty to look at, despite the threatening clouds, and we had a chance to do some photography of our own while we were there.
Certainly a lot of fun, and well worth the drive.
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Last night we visited the Gravity Discovery Centre and Observatory in Gingin for one of their Observatory Tour nights.
You get a full access ticket to the discovery Centre as a part of the tour ticket, so we made use of that to have a look around at the exhibits. The whole thing is a bit like a very focused SciTech or Powerhouse Museum sort of idea.
We also collected the five solargraph cameras that we set up six months ago. Three of these were Solarcan Pucks, and two were home-brew can cameras.
One of the Pucks was, alas, full of water, and the film was washed away. One of the can cameras was also heavily water filled, while the other had been partially crushed. The other two Pucks were in perfect condition.
What was unexpected was that both can cameras had acquired significant populations of tiny ants. One of them was even being used as an egg chamber! Despite this I was able to recover images from both, and the results are quite striking.
The tour, meanwhile, was very well presented, with a lot of great educational content mixed in with some fairly memorable standup. The contrast between how they would deal with moon landing conspiracy theorists ("We are here to educate") and flat earthers ("Get out now! Right now!") was particularly amusing.
There were five telescopes set up - 4 in the 11-12 inch range and one 60cm.
There was plenty to look at, despite the threatening clouds, and we had a chance to do some photography of our own while we were there.
Certainly a lot of fun, and well worth the drive.