3RF Australia

06/10/2017

A Brisbane private school launches an observatory fitted with telescopes so advanced they can be operated from anywhere in the world.

18/04/2017

A short video showing how artificial lighting is killing the night skies.

For 2 million years humans and our ancestors could see a perfectly black night sky. Now 80 percent of North America and Europe can’t see the Milky Way. What ...

11/04/2017

Finding Jupiter or the Southern Cross is easy if you know where to look.

27/02/2017

An interesting perspective on the scale of the Universe

For Ted-Ed https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-small-are-we-in-the-scale-of-the-universe-alex-hofeldt In 1995, scientists pointed the Hubble Telescope at an area…

20/01/2017

Have you had a look at the night sky recently?

The Summer solstice, balmy evenings and starry nights make it the perfect time to learn more about our universe and the long history of Indigenous people using the language of the skies to their advantage.

20/11/2016

“The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago . . . had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.” — Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923 Less…

30/10/2016

The Group Photo at The OzSky Star Safari's "Southern Spring" Observing Adventure

The 2016 OzSky "Southern Spring" Star Safari - Group Photo

20/05/2016

Registration for 3RF Australia's 2017 edition of The OzSky Star Safari is now OPEN!

http://www.OzSky.org

The 2017 OzSky Star Safari will be held from April 22-29, 2017.

Registrations are now open, but be quick as there are only very limited places available.

For more info, visit http://www.OzSky.org

04/04/2016

The 2016 OzSky Star Safari

The official OzSky 2016 Group Photo

22/11/2015

We are pleased to announce that registrations for the 2016 OzSky "Southern Spring" Star Safari are now open.

To secure your place at this very limited offering OzSky event, go to http://www.OzSky.org/spring

The "Southern Spring" edition of the OzSky Star Safari is an OzSky-style event designed to suit a smaller group of experienced observers, and is run as a "no frills" observing event, focussed primarily on observing and less on touring.

12/10/2015

October 9-16, 2015

29/04/2015

Check out this amazing time-lapse of the Milky Way transiting the zenith at The OzSky Star Safari