NSAS starts out in June with the Theory Group on Tuesday night the 8th. The lectures this month are ” Galileo and the Copernican Revolution”, and “Refinements to the Heliocentric Model”. On Tuesday the 15th is the June General Meeting. The speaker this month is George Hobbs of CSIRO and ANTF, who will speak on “Pulsars and Gravitational Waves”. “Observations of millisecond pulsars may provide the first means to detect the elusive gravitational waves that are predicted by General Relativity. If these waves are detected then we’ll have a means to study supermassive black hole binary systems and even probe the universe less than a second after the big bang. The Parkes telescope in Australia is providing the World-leading data sets for this search. I will describe our project, explain how pulsars are discovered and observed and how, using the pulsar observations, we will hopefully be able to detect gravitational waves.” Finally, if everything is sorted out, the New Astronomers Group meets Tuesday the 22nd, with the program TBA. Observing for the month of June will be on the Fridays 11th and 18th, with Saturday the 19th as backup.
NSAS Events for June
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NSAS General Meeting 18 May
15 05 2010The NSAS General Meeting will be on Tuesday 18 May at St. Ignatius, 7:30 PM. The speaker is Chris Hales from USyd and CSIRO, and his talk will be on Cosmic Magnetism.
Abstract: Chris Hales is a PhD candidate studying the as-yet unknown
origin of tenuous large-scale magnetic fields that exist in galaxies like
our own Milky Way. How do these weak fields remain undistrupted in objects
as complex as galaxies? How did they get there in the first place? And how
do you even “see” a magnetic field? In this talk Chris will outline his
research, as well as the future prospects for radio astronomy with the
upcoming EUR1.5b Square Kilometre Array.
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Some objects to look at at Observing in May
13 05 2010At the last New Astronomers Group session , I gave a presentation showing some of the many objects that are visible from Sydney for the month of May.
This presentation has been updated to show some of the objects visible tomorrow night which is promising to be a very good night for observing. Plus we are having a free sausage sizzle so it should be a fun night.
The presentation is a powerpoint presentation file. If you do not own microsoft office or do not have other suitable software able to view powerpoint files, you can download a powerpoint viewer from Microsoft for free at the following link.
The Powerpoint Presentation (10 megabyte file) showing visible objects for tomorrow night can be downloaded at the following link 14th May 2010 Objects
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Theory Group Meeting Tuesday the 11th
9 05 2010The Theory Group will meet Tuesday the 11th at 7:30 at St. Ignatius. The two lectures are: “Early Studies of the Solar System” and “The Geocentric Universe”. See you there, and visitors are welcome.
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May Observing
1 05 2010May Observing Nights will be Friday the 14th, with the backup on Friday the 21st. Due to lack of interest, Saturday observing will not take place unless the first and second Friday observing nights are clouded out. The Committee will plan for a Sausage Sizzle, probably on the 14th, so stay tuned.
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May Meetings
1 05 2010May meetings are as follows: Tuesday May 11, Theory Group at St. Ignatius; Tuesday May 18, General Meeting at St. Ignatius, speaker is Minnie Mao from CSIRO who will talk about the Evolution of Galaxies; Tuesday May 25, New Astronomers Group at St. Ignatius. Members and visitors are welcome at all meetings.
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