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.
This used to happen frequently when I lived in Mt Newman (NW WA). If they had a blast at the mine and the wind was blowing the right way the whole town got enveloped in a huge dust cloud. Real bugger if you had any washing on the line . Red dirt is hard to remove and gets into everything. Great pics by the way, love that red colour.
Yep. It's here alright... red/orange glow, mud stuck to the windows... I can smell it and taste it ...weet-bix and dust for breakfast! Anyone seen Marjorie Doors? (Just a test for Little Britain fans...)
Woke this morning near Gosford to maybe the same dust storm that has moved East. And of course we left the windows open last night, now everything is covered in dust.
We had rain first that came with a thunderstorm, so everything was wet first and befroe it got covered in dust.
Here are some photos of the morning on the East Coast.
Trevor, the red colour in your photos is really realistic and vibrant. I bet your lovely garden and horse-heads are just covered in dust. I hope your observatory is air-tight. We,ve had it blow through here overnight and early this morning with a lovely powdering of dust. Its has also been raining so everything is muddy, including the contents of our water tanks!!
thanks Trevor. 
...weet-bix and dust for breakfast!
Anyone seen Marjorie Doors? (Just a test for Little Britain fans...
I hope it clears tonight as they say it should. 
