Go Bong Mt Bogong, 1986m - Great Dividing Range, Victoria

Welcome. I am a Lecturer in the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing (CAS), Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, Assistant Coordinator of Swinburne Astronomy Online, CAS Postgraduate Coordinator and sometime summit bagger (left, Mt Bogong, Victoria).

Email: gmackie @ swin.edu.au * Contact Details

Astro-Humour * Prose/Poetry/Quotes * Astro-Factoids

Swinburne Astronomy Online * SAO Short Course * SAO Calendar


Cosmos, the SAO Encyclopedia

Cosmos, the SAO Astronomy Encyclopedia

HET603 Hints * HET607 Hints * Proj. 2 Missing Mass * Proj. 29 Search for Other Worlds * Proj. 33 Unveiling the Galactic Centre * Proj. 42 Prehistoric Astronomy * Proj. 48 Gravitational Lensing * Proj. 54 Dawn of Multiwavelength Astronomy * Proj. 113 Steady State vs Big Bang * Proj. 117 The Anthropic Universe? * Proj. 119 The First Stars * SAO Topical Astronomy

The background is from a chart in Johannes Kepler's 1606 celestial atlas entitled De Stella Nova. - origin http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~js/ast221/