The final night of my stay at Yulara, I took a short star-watching tour. We were taken to the Yulara observatory, and given a guided tour of the constellations above. The stars are very clear from Yulara, without all of the light pollution of a major city.
For the final part of the star-watching, we were set up with a couple of telescopes, and given the chance to see some of the highlights of the local sky. I got to see Alpha-Centauri, as a binary system (I think I managed to see the third dot of the trinary, but I may be kidding myself there). I saw Jupiter, and the four largest moons, and Saturn and it's rings, which were amazingly clear. Friends tell me that you can see this stuff from out in country Victoria if you have the right equipment, but it was new to me, and an amazing experience.
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