The NAG which was delayed from March will be held tonight at 7:30 at St. Ignatius. The subject will be celestial coordinates.
Events at NSAS in March
28 02 2011NSAS has a full schedule of events for March, including:
Observing is scheduled at North Turramurra on Friday March 4th, and Linden on March 6th.
Tuesday the 8th of March the Theory Group meets again, and continues with it’s adventure in “Understanding the Universe”
Tuesday the 15th of March is the General Meeting. We have an exciting speaker for you this month, Jeremy Mould from the University of Melbourne, who was formerly Director of the RSAA in Canberra, then at NOAO in the USA. He was a member of the team that determined the
Hubble Constant using the HST to observe Cepheid variables, a process that took ten years, but which settled an argument that had lasted for decades. In 2009 the trio of Freedman, Kennicutt and Mould were awarded the Gruber Cosmology Prize for this work. His talk will be on “The Hubble Telescope and the Hubble Constant”.
Tuesday the 22nd of March will be the second meeting of the re-started NAG. Last month the new NAG members looked at telescopes, and this month the subject is “astronomical coordinate systems and finding your way in the sky”.
As usual, all meetings start at 7:30, and are located at the Sports Pavilion (Fr Mac Pavilion) at St. Ignatius College. Visitors are welcome to all.
The month ends with observing on March 25 at North Turramurra.
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Feb New Astronomers Group Meeting
21 02 2011The New Astronomers Group will re-start Tuesday night, 22 Feb at 7:30, at St. Ignatius. A number of new and older members have asked for the program to be run again, so here’s your opportunity to get in at the start. We will start with some background on telescopes, followed by a discussion of the planned syllabus for the program.
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New Astronomers Group – Tuesday 23rd November
22 11 2010The November New Astronomers Group will be held on Tuesday 23rd November at 7.30pm at St. Ignatius.
Sorry for the late notice, but there has been some uncertainty as to whether the NAG would go ahead tomorrow.
Roy will not be available to present the NAG this week. However Bob Roeth has kindly offered to step in and give a presentation. His talk will be on the subject of Jupiter’s Trojan Asteroids.
There will also be a 12″ Tracking Dobsonian telescope set up. Hopefully if the clouds cooperate, we’ll be able to view Jupiter after Bob’s presentation. If the sky is cloudy, there will be a demonstration of setting up the scope for tracking, and performing a collimation using a laser collimator.
As usual, if you have a telescope that you would like help with, please bring it along.
Members and guests are welcome,
Peter Nosworthy
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NSAS Events for November
8 11 2010Sorry, seemed to have missed out on this at the start of the month.
Tuesday the 9th is the Theory Group, with yet another two lectures in “Understanding the Universe”. We now have a couple of sets of “catch-up” DVDs for anyone wanting to join the Group now.
Tuesday the 16th is the GM, and the speaker is Tui Britton, from Macquarie Uni, who will speak on Star Formation.
Tuesday the 23rd is the NAG, with the program to be announced.
Observing this month is Friday the 26th, and hopefully we will finally get a clear Observing night after so many cancellations.
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NAG 26th October
25 10 2010The October New Astronomers Group will be held on Tuesday the 26th at 7:30, at St. Ignatius. This month, we will be looking at a number of topics such as Comet Hartley (103P) and where and when you will be able to see it over the next week or so. We will also look at other objects visible in the skies over Sydney for October and November and talk about recent developments in the world of astronomy. We will also revisit by request a topic we held a few months ago on how you can access large telescopes around the world. We will also look at how you can help map the universe in quick and easy steps.
As usual, anyone with telescope issues can bring their scope along for support, or if you have any other questions please feel free to attend. All members and visitors are welcome.
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NSAS events for October
5 10 2010October started out bad for Observing, but we have two more chances on the 8th and 29th. The Theory Group meets on Tuesday the 12th at 7:30. Saturday the 16th NSAS will support the Macquarie Open Night. Contact the Committee if you’d like to participate, or just come along. This months General Meeting is the AGM on Tuesday the 19th at 7:30. As the AGM, there will be no speaker, but come out and elect next year’s Committee, and help with your ideas on where you want the Society to go in the next 12 months. Tuesday the 26th, the NAG is back as a result of popular demand, at 7:30. Program to follow. All events except Macquarie are at St. Ignatius, as usual.
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NAG 28th Sep
22 09 2010The Sep New Astronomers Group will be next Tuesday the 28th at 7:30, at St. Ignatius. This month, Geoff Unsworth will talk about a couple of interesting subjects, as he describes in his abstract, below. As usual, anyone with telescope issues can bring their scope along for support, or any other question, for that matter. Come out and support the NAG, as no-one wants to see it go away!
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NSAS Events for September
1 09 2010NSAS 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.
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New Astronomers Group – 24th August 2010
19 08 2010
The August session of the New Astronomers Group will be held this Tuesday night at 7:30 pm.
If anyone has an issue with their telescope, please contact us via the menu option above and let us know ahead of time of the issue you have with the scope and we will try and help you solve the problem.
The New Astronomers Group will be looking at some of the galaxies, nebulae and clusters that are visible during August and early September.
We will also look at how you can observe live images directly from telescopes around the world . This means in theory for a very small monthly fee that you can look at objects in the sky in both the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere…. weather permitting for each of the telescope locations.
We will end the night with a Q&A session. Here any members or visitors can ask questions or talk about events during the month. If you would like to suggest topics for future sessions such as how to starhop through the night sky or which filters are used for looking at which planets, please feel free to make a suggestion.
If you had a great observing session during the month, please feel free to tell us about it.
The New Astronomers Group will be held at it’s normal location
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