January 5 2000 (ii)
David Charters, Industrial Arts teacher here at Parramatta High School, presents an illustrated tribute to the Australian troops serving in East Timor. The same content (text and photos) is mirrored here, at Ozemail.

January 5 2000
New Moon tomorrow.
Can you spot its tiny crescent? Careful, though! Its very close to the sun.
Welcome to the last year of the current millennium. Today, (as you read this) there are days to go until the third millennium.

December 22 1999
Summer solstice.
To celebrate the solstice, and to mark the perigee of the Moon, a number of closeups of the Moon have been posted on the science pages.
The Moon is today 356,654km from Earth, but only a click away for you.

November 6 1999
Referendum day.
A large gallery of aerial photographs of PHS and environs. This time, the kite is a 300 hp Lycoming-powered six seater.

November 3 1999
The accolades are rolling in. The Sydney Morning Herald ran a piece on the solar car today. Read their online version here or look at the print version (with the photograph).
More write-ups coming soon.

October 25 1999
First in Australia! Last weekend (23-4/10/99) we wished the Model Solar Car team well for their trip to Adelaide for the Nationals.
Today they returned, clutching the first place in the whole of Australia.
Read a preliminary report here.

October 21 1999
The Year 9 Design and Technology solar car class is making final preparations for their trip to Adelaide this weekend. After gaining second place in the state, we wish them well at the Nationals.
A rather nice composite view of the moon is available in our Science Faculty section.

October 3 1999
A number of artworks by our accomplished students were submitted for inclusion in this year's Phœnix. A fair sample was included, but the printing process can hardly do them justice. View them in full glorious colour here, along with a few that didn't fit.

October 2 1999

14 Pages of Kite Aerial Photographs have been posted here to date. They are added to the site chronologically. Here you can see 45+ thumbnail images on one page.

September 28 1999
Saturn, Jupiter and the moon make an appearance over Parramatta High... a l-o-n-g way over!
What's Gnu has been archived again. You can view the entries for the first half of 1999 here.

September 26 1999
Column 8 features again, weighing into the millennium debate (again). Good to see they're right, even if the other 98% of journalists aren't.
Year 9 D&T have scored a triumph in the Solar Car Challenge.
Read about it here.

September 15 1999
Phœnix 1999 has been delivered to the printer. As I write, the presses are rolling. There are a number of references to this site in this year's magazine, including some questions which are answered here. You'll find links to the relevant pages here.

August 31 1999
We are always grateful to receive items of historical interest.
Our fifth gallery of historical images shows one ex-student's contribution, from 1928-32.
Thanks, Mrs Stanfield.

August 20 1999
Today, there are 500 days until the new millennium. To celebrate:
The fourteenth gallery of kite aerial photographs finally includes a plan view, and reveals a number of interesting secrets about the school.

August 11 1999
After a long break, the winds pick up and the thirteenth gallery of Kite Aerial Photographs is now available. In keeping with nominative determinism ("13th", in this case), a collection of out-takes (flops) is also included.

July 30 1999
Two nights ago, on the 28th of July, we saw the last lunar eclipse for the year.
View its progress on Science Page 2.
A minor update to the item presented below. There is one artefact visible from May's Hill in 1999 which was there in 1824. Find out about it here.

July 20 1999 Congratulations Apollo 11.
In 1824, one Joseph Lycott painted a landscape of Parramatta from May's Hill. On 20/7/1999, thirty years after Armstrong and Aldrin set foot on the moon, your web editor produced an equivalent view - this time using photography! You can view and compare them here. As well, there is now a full 360° panorama from much the same location.