Noosa News
The sky’s the limit
Owen Bennedick’s 69th birthday last Sunday marked 60 years since his interest in astronomy began as a nine-year-old boy with a pair of binoculars and a cousin interested in chasing UFOs.
He now has a private observatory with 34 telescopes, six capable of safely viewing the sun and is raising money for his next acquisition, a radio-telescope.
Over the years his interest has only grown. Since giving up his day job as a sound and light technician for discos and concerts about five years ago he has thrown himself into sharing his passion and his knowledge of astronomy and earth gained over decades of learning.
Owen now hosts shows at his Wappa Falls Astronomical Observatory of up to 700 people and has a mobile show he takes to schools and…
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