A retired astrophysicist and Nobel Prize winner has taken his love of star-gazing and passion for photography to another level, constructing his own observatory in the backyard of his Dalefield property. Retired astrophysicist Prof Brian Boyle stands in front of his new purpose-built Dalefield observatory. "Nobody took us seriously — we were just a bunch of young people trying to do something ... we made lots and lots of mistakes to start with." An image of Orion’s Nebula captured by Prof Boyle from his backyard observatory. PHOTO: SUPPLIEDProf Boyle pioneered the world’s largest radio telescope, the $200million Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, at Western Australia’s Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 07, 2021 15:33 UTC