southern cross

I went to the One Tree Hill Observatory with Gareth tonight to see a planetarium presentation on the southern sky and use the telescopes there. Somehow, despite seeing a comet only visible for a few days every million years/only from the southern hemisphere, I never managed to make it out to see the Southern Cross on the Antarctica trip. This time we saw the Southern Cross, the jewelbox, the moon through some high-powered telescopes (Zeiss?), and some really cool twisty-looking trees silhouetted against the night sky – those weren’t on the to-see agenda of the astronomers, but I liked them anyway.