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NSAS Events for September

bobsastro — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:02:19 +0000

NSAS starts off September with the Theory Group on Tuesday the 14th at 7:30, with more lectures in the “Understanding the Universe” series. Murray Suters will chair. The GM will be on Tuesday the 21st at 7:30, followed by our September speaker, Dan Zucker from Macquarie University Physics Dept, whose presentation will be “Building Galaxies in our Backyard”. See the separate abstract. The New Astronomers Group follows on Tuesday the 28th at 7:30. Roy Jordan will announce the agenda later in the month. All meetings will be at St. Ignatius, and as usual, visitors are welcome to all the meetings.

Observing will be the Friday nights, 10 and 17 September at North Turramurra, with Sat the 18th as the weather alternate.

Observing/Sausage Sizzle this Sat

bobsastro — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:46:34 +0000

After a poll of members, and a final weather check, we’ve decided to have a combined Observing Night/Sausage Sizzle this Saturday the 17th, at North Turramurra GC. Someone will be there from about 4:30 onwards, and if you are a member and haven’t advised Bob, please do so he can get the sausage count right! There is some possibility of Observing (with sausages) Friday night, but there could be a problem with support, so watch this space. This Saturday should be a great one, just a partial Moon, and lots of interesting things to see around Scorpio, and Mars, Saturn, and Venus all visible early. Rug up, it’s supposed to be cold! As usual, visitors are welcome, but bring your own sausages……

NSAS Events for June

bobsastro — Fri, 28 May 2010 10:09:54 +0000

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.