Tuesday, 2. January 2007
We are now at the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) in Coonabarabran. The AAT is reached after a six hours drive north-west of Sydney. We have spent new year's eve up here with Laszlo Kiss and our night assistent Shaun James. We'll be here for about two weeks enjoying the starry nights and beautiful landscape. There are lots of kangaroos and wallabies jumping around the Siding Spring observatory. Yesterday we went bush walking to look for koalas, but didn't see any. However, we saw two huge emus walking slowly down the road.
The AAT telescope is the largest optical telescope in Australia with a 3.9m mirror. Unfortunately, the weather has been quite bad for the first five nights. The weather forecast promises sunny weather within the next few days.
Coonabarabran: New Years Eve 2006-701/02/2007
