Those of you who know about my former interest for astronomy, may have guessed that I would pay a visit to Sydney Observatory.
Originally this was built to keep the time for the Sydney citizens. The yellow ball on the top of the building fell down at exactly 1 PM every day, and it still does!
This is the inside of one of the domes. It contains an ancient telescope, which is no longer in use.
The other dome was closed, but I managed to sneak in, and could see that they were using a much more modern 10 inch Meade telescope, and two computers. They also have a webcamera there, so they did discover my trespassing. Shame on me! :-)
This observatory is currently only a museum over old times. Would love to see some amateur astronomy here. According to one of the employees, their goal is only to make money, so they have time for nothing else except guiding and tours. I'm sad about this... The Tycho Brahe observatory outside Malmo, where I used to spend much time, is much more amateur astronomy active.
The sun is about to go down, so I took this beautiful picture!
I am very close the Sydney's famous opera house, so I decided to walk there.
This is really tourist quarters, as you can see!
Getting a little closer...
and even closer...
It is a really beautiful building!
I went inside too, but did not watch any play. Instead watched the sun going down, and the moon rising. It was fullmoon today.
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