| One day
around 1933 when I was down at the Williamstown Rifle Range,Victoria,
Australia, on a Sunday morning with the Scotch College Cadet unit,
I looked at a full moon through a pair of powerful binoculars.
I was fascinated with what I saw and wanted to know more. In my mid twenties I joined the Astronomical Society of Victoria. I joined a group of amateur astronomers and was trained on the eight inch refractor telescope in the observatory near the Herbarium close to St Kilda Road, Melbourne. A few years later, I ground and polished a six inch mirror and made a Newtomian reflector telescope.  Astronomy in its most simple form You don't need a telescope to appreciate the beauty of this sunset captured on Port Phillip, Melbourne, Australia with a Digital Camera. |
 Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Hubble Telescope
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