Aina in front of a picture of the Gemini South Telescope. Photo Aina 21 December 2011 So here we are settled in La Serena! All the Gemini staff are very welcoming and helpful and they have certainly made us feel like at home.

A mosaic image of 433 Eros made by the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft on 29 February 2000 while circling the asteroid. The asteroid is roughly a cylinder in shape with a length of 34 km and a diameter of 11 km.

The cover of the Great Melbourne Telescope by Richard Gillespie. Courtesy of the Museum of Victoria RRP 29.95 Published by Museum Victoria ISBN 978-1-921833-05-2 Paperback, colour and black & white illustrations, 192pp In November 1868 the ship The Empress of the Seas arrived in Melbourne carrying the disassembled parts of what was to be the largest steerable telescope in the world, the Great Melbourne Telescope.

The front of the Richard II quadrant in the British Museum, showing equal hour lines and the stag with a crown – the badge of the king. This instrument dating from 1399 is very similar to the horary quadrant discovered in Queensland and is probably from the same workshop.