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Monthly observing reports from new-moon weekends at Wiruna.
Deep Sky Notes — April 2026
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Deep Sky Notes — March 2026
The forecast for the March Wiruna weekend did not look promising. We arrived on site early Friday afternoon to a pleasant partly cloudy sky to join an…
Deep Sky Notes — January 2026
It’s been a quiet few months on the observing front. I missed the October and November Wiruna weekends on account of moving house. The December Wiruna…
Deep Sky Notes — September 2025
We arrived on site late Friday afternoon, just in time for the rain to set in. It did not let up for the rest of the night, so our Friday night was sp…
Deep Sky Notes — August 2025
After missing Wiruna in July I was looking forward to escaping to Wiruna in August. August was the wettest in ~28 years so I was glad to get out of Sy…
Deep Sky Notes — June 2025
We arrived on site early Friday afternoon, to blue skies from horizon to horizon. It was shaping up to be a fantastic weekend. The site was a hive of …
Deep Sky Notes — May 2025
The lead up to the May Wiruna weekend was marked by torrential rain along the east coast, and sitting in rainy Sydney the forecast for Wiruna was not …
Deep Sky Notes — April 2025
I was particularly looking forward to the April weekend away to Wiruna. This weekend would mark the first time I would have my 10-inch Meade LX200 (af…