Using the lateral thinking the club is noted for, Richmond has cleverly made use of the Hercules transport planes in night training at the nearby RAAF Base.
He reasoned that, in the same manner that the Moon and Minor Planets occult background stars, these aircraft eclipse many stars worth closer study in the course of a single flight.
To follow some of the faster moving aircraft, he has built a telescope to the design used by Ivor Merino and Dipso Maniak to track and image the surface details of meteors, and has linked this to a fibre optic able, projecting an image through the rapidly rotating radiator fan of a Subaru WRX, to project 1372 images per second into a digital camera.
To supplement the pedal power of the modified mountain bike drive system, Richmond has added an engine from a rotary lawn mower to provide sudden bursts of speed.
This has worked so well that in an opportunistic scan of Pluto when a tightly turning aircraft repeatedly eclipsed it, Richmond believes that he has uncovered evidence that its Moon, Charon, also has a satellite.
He dismisses suggestions by more timid members that possibly the pilot was smoking a cigarette at the time.