Cafuego - the eternal pursuit of doing less

Ever since people looked at the stars, they have given bright stars (and groups of stars) names.

So, N years later, how is that going?

It's been a while since I did a blog, so after twiddling the way the front page of the site displays, it's time to post a new one.

It's been a good three years now since I swapped my HP laptop for a Macbook Pro.

From time to time you see photos pop up on the internet that show off bits of the northern sky.

Like many people, I love the beautiful images we receive from space telescopes and spacecraft that orbit other worlds in the solar system.

A few weeks ago I noticed a retweet by ESA, asking for expression of interest from space enthusiasts to attend and social-media (verb) the inauguration of a new antenna at their New Norcia deep spacetracking site in Western Australia.

At last week's telescope driver training I found out that Melbourne contains a 1 to 1 billion scale model of the solar system.

I trek out to a fairly dark sky site on the odd Friday evening to partake of some amateur astronomy at an observatory in the Dandenong ranges.

A while ago, I was contacted by MobileZap, a reseller of mobile phone accessories and asked if I was interested in reviewing an iPhone zoom lens attachment.