The view from my "office"

[TheRealTMA]

While I was still snoring in bed my wife took this photo of Jupiter and Venus in close conjunction. Early tomorrow morning (Perth time) there will be a "once in a thousand years" alignment of Saturn, Mars, Venus and Jupiter.

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Get lookin‘

Jupiter and Venus will seem to nearly collide in rare celestial spectacle

Stargazers will have to wait years for repeat performance with four planets also appearing in straight line

www.theguardian.com

 

[prozac]

Well we got up at 0245, 0500 & 0715 and couldn't do much better than yesterdays photo. We tried 2 cameras a tablet and a phone but they were simply not good enough to get a really good photo when the skies were dark. These are probably the best ones but at least you can see that Jupiter and Venus are aligned more closely than yesterday.

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Thanks for posting. I got up at 5am but sadly too many trees in my yard and some cloud obscured my view.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Thanks for posting. I got up at 5am but sadly too many trees in my yard and some cloud obscured my view.

I’ll be up to try to get the alignment over next couple of days.

 

[RooFlyer]

Autumn at the home office

 

[boomy]

View from my office yesterday at Estadio Bernabeu watching Real Madrid winning their 35th La Liga championship!

 

[JessicaTam]

View from my office yesterday at Estadio Bernabeu watching Real Madrid winning their 35th La Liga championship!

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You can relive the moment at home:

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[QF WP]

My view this morning aboard QF661 BNE/ADL (Live Photos thanks to inflight wifi)

On the ground prior to push back


Just after take off, on the climb over Brisbane River


This photo op never gets old


Somewhere over mid NSW at 6:46am

 

[drron]

This mornings office. Silverkris lounge Brisbane.








Nice breakfast but I limited myself to 1 egg, 1 sausage but 2 tomatoes.

 

[drron]

The next office. SQ 256.




The champagne is on its way.

 

[VPS]

Adelaide central market today (pretending I'm in France with the sunflowers and probably not so much Italy with the pretend pizza)

 

[drron]

Leaving my afternoon office SIN.

Not really jumping at 1500.

 

[VPS]

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Not really jumping at 1500.

it looks like your hands were jumping though

 

[drron]

it looks like your hands were jumping though

I have a familial tremor. All the males in our family have had it. Gets worse with age. That was taken with the phone which has no anti shake ability. It is why my cameras have been Sony for years. Best anti shake properties of any camera.

 

[Pushka]

I have a familial tremor. All the males in our family have had it. Gets worse with age. That was taken with the phone which has no anti shake ability. It is why my cameras have been Sony for years. Best anti shake properties of any camera.

We have the same in males in my family. The side that has all the lupus stuff which the females got and males have the tremor.

But I think it’s the champagne in this case

 

[QF WP]

My view from QF668 ADL/BNE just after push back. Too dark to get any good ones afterwards

 

[Captain Halliday]

I promised these in another thread on Saturday. Better late than never.

This is the Orient Cave office:



It was a very pleasant 18 degrees, but you’d be forgiven for thinking it was freezing.



It’s one of only a few caves to have Helictites.

Rather than growing up or down, they grow in random directions and end up looking a bit like coral…



…or popcorn.



The photos don’t do justice to the scale of the cave and the extent of the crystal.

As an indication, part of our group was three “floors” below us at one stage and there was still hundreds of metres of cave above and below.



There were also impressive examples of flow stone.





Jenolan, New South Wales.

 

[drron]

This night's office IC Robertson Quay Singapore Would make some one from Melbourne homesick.

 

[zig]

This night's office IC Robertson Quay Singapore Would make some one from Melbourne homesick.
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That is even more brown than the Yarra

 

[Captain Halliday]

After spending the morning in the Orient cave, we headed to the Lucas cave for the afternoon.

This was a real workout.

1,000 stairs.

But at least we didn’t have to enter the same way tourists did up to the ‘60’s.



And if you want to leave the cave, that’s another 1,000 steps.

Once again spectacular formations.





They call this the rhinoceros, but my first thought was that it looks like that flying dog creature from “The Never Ending Story” movie.



There were some impressive shawls/curtains, coloured by the iron seeping into the limestone.



In this cave there were also places where you were much closer to the formations and this allowed some creative close ups.



And then it dripped…


Jenolan, New South Wales

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

Our view from the Intercontinental Robertson Quay Singapore,