Rob and Ellie just got back from Beijing where they presented at the Scientific Symposium of the International Union of Radio Science, and saw a few of the sights too.  And while some of the team are travelling around South Australia to install more cameras, a number of others are heading off to Morroco next week for another conference! Conferences are a […]

John Goldsmith studied Aboriginal astronomical knowledge in his PhD project at Curtin University. Find out how the indigenous local people to Wolfe Creek Crater share their understandings of Kandimalal – Wolfe Creek meteorite crater – in this video. The video was developed by John Goldsmith (Celestial Visions) with the support of the John and Robin de Laeter Science Engagement Scholarship.

This stunning fireball was observed over Perth this morning (August 4th) at approximately 6am. A number of reports have been received via the Fireballs in the Sky smartphone app, and this image was recorded by Curtin’s Fireball Network camera at Badgingarra. The observation is consistent with an extraterrestrial rock coming through the atmosphere, and the Fireball Network crew are hard at work […]

[View the story “Melbourne Fireball – 10 July 2014” on Storify]

The team finish up the last camera installations and truck on home … Friday 9 May: “Early to bed, early to rise.”  I do not follow this philosophy, as I was the first to bed and the last to rise this morning.  While the guys enjoyed coffee and fried breakfast, I was informed by Martin T at 9 am that it was […]

The story continues as the team install more cameras and run into some bad weather … Monday 5 May: Our day started out well, albeit with a few hiccups.  Getting the camera to connect to Telstra took some effort, but that was solved fairly quickly; now we can talk to it and download pictures directly from our offices at Curtin University.   The […]

Thanks to Katie Dyl for keeping a blog on the latest DFN trip – read on find out what it’s like to venture into the outback to install the cameras. This blog will come in three installments – keep an eye on the twitter feed or facebook to know when then next is up. On this trip were: Martin Towner (Project Manager), […]