Photos from 2002 October 26
This is a panorama shot of the expanse of Warrumbungle National Park, looking to the west not long before sunset (but still early enough that the setting sun isn't messing up my shot, like it was last time). This is from the westernmost point of Siding Spring Observatory, looking out over the ancient volcano crater. This one is way, way older than Haleakala.	As I have said, I think, there were lots of kangaroos at the site, although mostly they came out at dusk or at night, which made them difficult to photograph. Here's the best of the night shots I attempted. This guy was almost my height, if he stood on tip-toe.	The moon was stunning, although it was extremely annoying because it swamped out the sky I was trying to look at. I couldn't even see the Magellanic Clouds, dangit!	This is called Mopra Rock. There's a radio telescope on the other side of it called Mopra, as well.
This is the wedding cake mountain, so named because of the tier-shaped structure. Ostensibly, this hike was supposed to take me to the top of said structure, but both times I attempted it, it was just too hard. Even armed with written directions and a GPS path marker, the trail was too hard to find in places. Even though I tried on two separate days, I never made it to the mountain.	The tree made an interesting pattern against the sky.	I liked the composition of this shot.	This was a wide area that presumably is a creek bed when it rains.
The dome of the 3.9 m telescope at dusk. I was hoping I could catch the rosy color of the sunset reflecting off the dome, and I think I was partly successful. Trust me, the color was even more intense at the time. (See the two people standing at the rail half-way up the building to get a sense of scale.)	The same dome from the base (you can see the same two people are still there), and the rosy color hasn't faded comepletely yet, but the main point of this photo was to get the kangaroo by the tree in the lower left foreground.	Here's the kangaroo again, looking alert.	I tried to get closer, and it hopped away a little, so I was only able to get one more picture before he ran off for good.
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