Finished reading: Midnight Black by Mark Greaney 📚

An incredible book. Almost an entire trilogy in a single volume that touches on ethics, morality, justice, sentience, human-ness and so much more.

Finished reading: Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky 📚

I reread this epic masterpiece every couple of years and continue to love it each time

Finished reading: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 📚

Finished reading: The Art of Weather Photography by Ingham, Jacci 📚

Finished reading: Bad Astronomy by Philip C. Plait 📚

Finished reading: In Too Deep by Lee Child 📚

Finished reading: Tom Clancy Defense Protocol by Andrews & Wilson 📚

Pretty excited about the latest Adobe Lightroom desktop (i.e. not Classic) update. The Open in Photoshop integration is awesome, and I am looking forward to Loupedeck updating (hopefully soon) so that it takes advantage of the new integrations…

Back in June I spent the early hours of a cold morning capturing astro photos, panorama photos and timelapses of the Milky Way in the western sky of Strathnairn in Canberra’s west.

#astrophotography

Visit these images at DesParoz.com.

✅✅❌✅✅❌❌✅❌✅ The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 526 I got 6/10!

❌✅✅❌❌✅✅✅❌✅ The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 525 I got 6/10!

Finished reading: Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell 📚

Finished reading: SAFE ENOUGH by LEE. CHILD 📚

Finished reading: The Javan War by John Birmingham & Jason Lambright 📚

Really enjoyed this novella telling the backstory of one of the key characters in the Cruel Stars trilogy.

Looking forward to the third of the main trilogy, but look forward to more novellas.

Known as Gawarrgay to the Australian First Nations Kamilaroi people, the Celestial Emu describes how many First Nations people viewed the Milky Way.

View on DesParoz.com

Finished reading: Tom Clancy Shadow State by M.P. Woodward 📚

This was a fascinating journey through the history of Russian ‘illegals’ focusing from the Cold War era, through to the spiritual successors embodied in the modern influence era. Well worth a read!

Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories and the Hunt for Putin’s Agents by Gordon Corera 📚

Finished reading: Bad River by Marc Cameron 📚

Finished reading: The Creeper by Margaret Hickey 📚

❌✅✅❌✅✅✅❌✅✅ The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 513 I got 7/10!

My favourite GPS hiking app Gaia GPS has introduced a Light Pollution Map.

It requires a premium subscription, but it is one many who hike already have.

What’s the most amazing thing you’ve seen in the night sky? Vote from our Top Ten - ABC News

Cast your vote

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Bob’s Ridge. A dead tree along the Cascade Trail near Thredbo, NSW.

Setting out on a foggy morning, we did the 10km out and back hike to Bob’s Ridge.

Read more at DesParoz.com

Great summary of why winter is an awesome time for nightscape photography in Australia.

www.abc.net.au/news/scie…

Also—for Australians—please do the survey mentioned In the article. It’s for science week!