Our graphic exhibit was built with the help of Scitech in Perth and has since travelled to the Australian Museum in Sydney, the Kalgoorlie Town Hall and has also had a stint in the Western Australian State Library. This year we’re sending three sets of the exhibit out to community centres and libraries across WA and SA to share our project with […]

While Jimmy and Martin C were out installing cameras in South Australia they put together this little video to show us how it’s done. Watch a DFN camera being built in a day: It was an all day job, about 5 – 6 hours of working in the sun, but it is a beautiful location. Kondoolka is on the eastern edge of […]

Your best chance of seeing a meteor is by star gazing when there’s a meteor shower. With today’s much-anticipated app update, you can now use Fireballs in the Sky to find out when and where to look to see that meteor shower. The best bit: Choose a meteor shower and your phone will move you to the right position to see it […]

We’re excited to be a part of what’s soon becoming the Perth season of astronomy festivals! Astrofest, which has been going since the International Year of Astronomy (2009) comes back again on Saturday March 28th at Curtin University stadium. It’s a fantastic event for young and old, families and date nights because of the wide spread of offerings and the awesome atmosphere. […]

Teachers and lab technicians had some fun and got hands on with Fireballs at the Science Teachers’ Association of Western Australia STAWA Future Science conference last week. Over 60 heard from team leader, Phil during his key note talk and another 20 dissected meteorites, made craters and measured angles with Gretchen, Ellie and Jay.  Everyone had a great time and left with a […]

The Geminids are set to be a great show on the weekend. For more, check out “Everything you need to know” by EarthSky: http://earthsky.org/space/everything-you-need-to-know-geminid-meteor-shower    

It was an amusing text message I received from Luke this week with some pictures of a very wonky looking camera: Luke and the team are out servicing and installing yet more DFN cameras across eastern South Australia. They woke up to find the camera they had serviced the day before positioned at a jaunty angle. The sand dune it was on […]

The DFN team’s field trip to put out more cameras in SA had them seeing some beautiful skies and making friends with the wildlife. A quick note and some awesome picks just in from our team out installing cameras, they’re closer to Birdsville than Kalgoorlie! “The trip is going very well, 3 of 7 cameras already deployed – 4 sets loaded in […]

To celebrate International Earth Science Week, the Fireballs team and other Earth scientists at Curtin are visiting schools and events all October. Here’s Lucy presenting about her work and how she got into Earth science at the Esperance Agricultural Show. Everyone loved finding out about the project, holding real meteorites and dissecting play-dough replicas! We’ll be visiting schools in Perth too, and […]

The Desert Fireball Network continues to grow, and over August and September it’s been spreading into South Australia. The aim is for it to eventually record the night sky above one third of the area of Australia, focusing on the places where there’s the least vegetation and settlement.     During the first trip, Martin C and Jimmy installed five cameras – […]