[Quark (Trevor)]

Hi All,

Living in the remote outback of Australia is great for astronomy, mostly.

Have attached some images from 3:30pm, yep mid afternoon today.
We had a dust storm like I have never seen in my life before. We left home in strong winds and a raging dust storm to pick up our son from school. About 10 minutes after we parked the car out the front of his school the wind strengthened considerably and it went black. We could not even see the car parked in front of us, visibility was zero.

The school was put into lock down for the safety of the children. Half an hour later visibility improved to about 100 metres, the sky went from black back to a really dark red and we went into the school to get our lad. Have been home now for about an hour and the sky is the deepest red imaginable.

I have attached a photo of my observatory and one of over our back fence.
I realize this has not got a lot to do with astronomy, but it's not the sort of thing one would see every day. It is much darker now but I would need a tripod to image it as the exposure would need to be a few seconds.

Regards
Trevor

Regards
Trevor