Today spent having a look around Charleville. Spent a couple of hours at the Cosmos Centre which began 20 years ago with one enthusiast and his backyard telescope to a serious observatory and tourist attraction. The centre has a series of very clever films and inter-active displays full of great information on varied subjects such as early astronomy, cosmology, Australian meteorites, and solar system. We decided to come back later tonight and participate in an observatory session at 9:15pm.
Then we went to have some late lunch in a lovely local park. One of the highlights is a series of rain making rockets/guns which were installed by a very optimistic mob in 1905 in the hope of bringing on rain. The idea was that the explosions form these devices would change the humidity in the air.
Doggie even had a go at the slide.
Then back to our camp.
Later that evening Sean and I headed back into town, along with Bob and Ellen (from Holland who were camped alongside us and going to the same session), went into our observatory session.
We had a 3/4 moon which was quite bright, however our hosts managed to find plenty of interesting stuff to look at, and finishing off the evening with a detailed look at the moon which was really cool. Arrived back to camp at 10.30pm only hitting one roo along the way.
The Campbells
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