Had a fascinating meeting in December with the very inspiring Professor Tamara Davis, who heads the Dark Matter/ Dark Energy ARC CAASTRO research project. Tamara generously shared her time and insights, and directed me to some fantastic urls and visualisations regarding the mapping of the southern sky and the dark universe. Also made contact with Dr. Angel R. Lopez-Sanchez, Astronomy Research Fellow & Science Communicator at Siding Springs Observatory, who has created some rather wonderful timelapse images as seen below. Hope to be in further contact with these two – and other astrophysicist researchers – for a proposed forthcoming creative work around dark energy and dark matter in 2018/ 2019. { Angel’s image via http://oldweb.aao.gov.au/local/www/alopez/timelapse_The_Sky_over_SSO.html }
Circumpolar star traces over Siding Springs © Á.R.L-S.