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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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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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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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This is a three month #solargraph taken at the #Gingin #GravityDiscoveryCentre .
This was taken with a #SolarcanPuck attached to the underside of the #RadioTelescope they have there. About six weeks in, they rotated the dish, resulting in two distinct sets of sun trails, at about 90 degrees. Scanned with #PhotoScan and processed in #Snapseed. -
This is a six-month #solargraph taken at the Gingin Gravity Discovery Centre, looking north at the Leaning Tower. Many thanks to the GDC and AIGO for letting me set the cameras up back in December!