I have moved house and will establish a new observatory not far from Theodore in the suburb of Isabella Plains in the Australian Capital Territory. The coordinates taken from Google Earth, are longitude 149^o05'16.6" E (149.088^o), latitude 35^o25'52.2" S (35.431^o), elevation 586 m.

My program continues as before which will include prediction, observation and analyses of lunar eclipses and solar eclipses, observation of solar transits of Mercury and Venus, observation of lunar occultations and thin lunar crescents, as well as video and image analyses and measurement.

It is anticipated that only first contact of the  partial lunar eclipse of 2008 August 16 (where the moon's elevation in the West will be only 12.9^o) will be the first major but difficult event for the new observatory.

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