Star Gazing.....

We baked some bikkies and made a steaming thermos of milo, then we headed off up the road at about 8.30pm to do a bit of amateur Southern Sky-watching.


We had a bit of time to kill and not much space in which to kill it (you see, we live on a windy, hilly, gravel road so not only are places to pull over and park pretty scarce, places to amuse ourselves for an hour or two whilst pulled over and parked are even scarcer!)


H7 was seeing how long she could howl at the moon:


And A10 was doing a spot of rock-hopping:


Then when it was almost dark enough we had our milos and bikkies:


And finally we were treated to the spectacle that is the McNaught Comet:





Comet McNaught Trivia for The Day: "Now at 128 million kilometres from earth the comet is slowly moving away. The bright head is more than 100,000 kilometres across but is really nothing more than a dust cloud around a relatively tiny snowball of ice and dust a few kilometres across. The comet's tail is a million kilometres long and made up of fine dust pushed away from the head by the pressure of the sun." - The Timaru Herald, 19 Jan 2007