About 2 weeks ago, the MQ Photonics research group at uni organised a trip up to the Anglo-Australian Telescope and Observatory in Siding-Spring, about a 6 hour drive North of Sydney, in the middle of nowhere with a night sky so beautiful that you will keep dreaming and the stars in your eyes for a long long time :)
The group in front of the dome for the 4m AAT telescope
On the Saturday we went for a walk in the Warrumbungles to the Breadknife rock (look well and you'll see the telescope dome in the background... :) )
Chillaxing kangooroo :)
Visit of the telescopes:
The guys in front of the 4m diameter AAT (Nick, Simon, Nem and Alex)
2Df instrument at the back of the telescope, every little black button you see takes in the light of a star on the field of view and sends that light through the fibre attached to it to another instrument for the analysis of the light
One long spectrum...
The view from the telescope dome with Chris
BBQ under the dome in the evening :)
Kangooroos posing for us everywhere on site :)
The beautiful night sky, no comment...
More Telescopes and Alex
Trees full of butterflies, they were huge! Beautiful as well! :)
Some extra pics from the others I thought you might like :)
The guys going crazy with long exposures at night :) promoting the Macquarie student chapter funded vy the Optical Society of America MQ OSA
