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Fred Bullen | Mark Pryor | Ainslie Ivin-Smith | Eleanor Anson | Myrna Komar | Karyn Brenton | Simone Atkins | Laura Macdonald | Christine Witchard | Roger Gifkins | Don Gentle | Gemma Stylz | Gail Sue | Robyn Jackson | Chris Austin | Deb Broughton | Jen Hetherington| Kathy Edwards | Jason Ridgeway | Jill Cairns | Verqelle Fisher | Denise McDermott | Harold Le Jeune | Terri Maddock | Linda Lockyer | Patrick Indo
Roger Gifkins
8th - 19th June
Roger grew up in a family of scientists and gained an interest in science and astronomy from a very early age. He then went on to study physics at the University of Melbourne and UNE.
Roger built an 8 inch telescope from scratch, grinding the mirror by hand from a disk of Pyrex. He used this telescope for observing over the next 40 years. It wasn’t until he retired that he launched into astrophotography, buying a smaller scope more suited to imaging which is now has a permanent home in an old shipping container!
“I love to photograph distant galaxies as well as nebula within our own Milky Way galaxy with the occasional solar system photo as well”
One of Roger’s photos was awarded “Image Of The Day” on an international astrophotography website and he recently won the solar system category at the Tamworth Regional Gallery astrophotography competition.
