Australian Geographic - 09.2019 - 10.2019

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The

look ing up

Naked eye

A great time to

stargaze! In the evening,

winter constellations

Scorpius and Sagittarius

head towards the western

horizon. Note the tilting

teapot. At about midnight

a summer highlight,

Orion, is appearing in the

east. Look for the

saucepan rising.

Glenn Dawes is a

co-author of the

yearbook Astronomy

2019 Australia

(Quasar Publishing).

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with Glenn Dawes

PHOTO CREDIT: COLIN BEARD/AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHIC

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HOWCASING STUNNING photos from

Australian Geographic’s acclaimed

30-year anniversary book, A Portrait

of Australia, this exhibition will be showing

publicly for the first time ever, from

15 August to 24 November, at the

Cobb+Co Museum in southern

Queensland. Celebrating the bush,

outback and coast and the people living

there, the exhibition takes you to some of

the most rugged and remote parts of the

country to tell remarkable stories of

ordinary Australians. The Cobb+Co

Museum is at 27 Lindsay Street,

Toowoomba. cobbandco.qm.qld.gov.au

A Portrait of Australia is a travelling

exhibition developed by the National

Museum of Australia in collaboration with

AG. For a venue near you nma.gov.au/

exhibitions/portrait-of-australia

A Por trait of Australia

Small telescope

Mercury has its

best evening return for

2019. In mid-September
      it charges past brilliant
      Venus to spend October
      low in the west close
      to the end of twilight.
      Watch its phase over this
      period start out like a
      round full Moon, shrinking
      to a thin crescent.

Binoculars

Faint patterns

visible under dark country

skies can become obvious

from the suburbs with

binoculars. Try Delphinus

the Dolphin constellation;

look for the bright star

Fomalhaut in the mouth of

the southern fish; and

follow the body running

along Grus the Crane.

24 Australian Geographic

Stories through the lens of Australian Geographic Eric Philips OAM

Michael Smith

Justin & Lauren Jones

Hobart

4 September

Stanley Burbury Theatre

UTAS

PRESENTS

H

obart will get the

chance to hear from

some of Australia’s most

impressive adventurers

when the Australian

Geographic Society Awards

roadshow wheels into town

next month.

For more information

and to book, head to:

australiangeographic.com.

au/australian-geographic-

presents

Come and be inspired.

Part of the proceeds will

be donated to the AGS.