In May we start out with the Theory Group next Tuesday the 8th, at 7:45 PM, and the General Meeting will be Tuesday the 15th at 7:30 PM. Our speaker for the month is Michael Ireland from Macquarie Uni Physics Dept, who will be speaking to us about SUSI, the optical inferometer at Narribri. Observing this month (and the weather looks better) is a bumper crop, with the Fridays 11th, 18th, and 25th, so surely we can manage one night! All meetings are at Regis Hall, St. Ignatius, and visitors are welcome, as usual.
NSAS Events for May
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April Events for NSAS
3 04 2012NSAS will continue the Understanding the Universe lecture series at the Theory Group on Tuesday the 10th, 7:45 PM at Regis Hall. The General Meeting will be Tuesday the 17th, 7:30 PM at Regis Hall, and the guest speaker for April will be Shea Brown from CSIRO, ATNF, who will speaker on “Clusters of Galaxies: A Survey of the Most Massive Objects in the Universe”. As usual guests are welcome to our meetings.
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NSAS Events for March
1 03 2012For March, we start out with the Theory Group on Tuesday the 13th, 7:45PM. The General Meeting is on Tuesday the 20th, 7:30PM, and our speaker is Nickolas Seymour from CSIRO, who will be speaking on “Radio Astronomy in the WA Bush”. This should be very topical, as the decision on the Square Kilometer Array is imminent. There are also a number of things to discuss in the GM, including the Transit of Venus in June, and a possible Field Trip to Narrabri later in the year. Our meeting venue is Regis Hall, and as usual, visitors are welcome. See you there.
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Theory Group on the 14th, and change of venue for GM on the 21st
13 02 2012Just a reminder that NSAS activities restart tomorrow night with the Theory Group at 7:45 at Regis Hall, and that the venue for the GM for next Tuesday the 21st is changed back to the Fr. Mac (sports) Pavillion due to a scheduling conflict. Hope to see you at either/both. If you haven’t paid your membership renewal, I’d suggest doing it tomorrow, as otherwise the Committee will generate a letter asking whether you wish to remain a member.
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NSAS Events for February
25 01 2012On Tuesday the 14th the Theory Group will pick up where it left off with “Understanding the Universe”, at the revised time of 7:45 PM. The General Meeting will be at 7:30 PM on Tuesday the 21st. Our speaker for February is Francisco Di Mille from the AAO, who is recently returned from Chile. He and a colleague have been recently in the news regarding their discovery of stellar jets from Sanduleak’s Star, which he will discuss, along with the Magellan Telescope, where he did his work in Chile. All meetings are at Regis Hall, St Ignatius.
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December Events and Saturday’s Lunar Eclipse
7 12 2011Just to remind those of you who might have forgot, this coming Saturday night the 10th there is a total lunar eclipse visible from Eastern Australia. It starts at 10:45 PM and is at totallity about midnight. Hopefully the weather will be better on the night. The Society will not run any program for this, as it is so late at night.
I’ll take this opportunity to remind you of the events for December. Next Tuesday the 13th will be the Theory Group at 7:45, and on Tuesday the 20th we will have the Society Christmas Party, which will revert back to the old format of “bring a dish”. I’ll get back to you with more details later. All meetings are at Regis Hall, as usual.
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NSAS Events for November
1 11 2011NSAS this November will have the Theory Group on Tuesday the 8th at the new time of 7:45. The Nov General Meeting will be Tuesday the 15th at 7:30, and the speaker is David Malin, the famour AAO astrophotographer. If you ever make it a GM, you should make it to this, as David is a fascinating speaker who will talk on the history of astrophotography. All meetings are at Regis Hall, St. Ignatius. Observing this month is Friday the 18th, and would have been on the 25th, however the Field Trip to Coonabarabran will likely take our Observing Officers away, but there could be Observing if someone is available. Finally, the second Field Trip of the year will take a group to Coonabarbran for a tour of the AAO, followed by dark-sky observing with either own scopes or at a commercial observatory. It’s not too late to join up, so just let me know.
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NSAS Activities for September
3 09 2011We start off September tonight with the NSAS Public Star Party for the Lane Cove Cameraygal Festival. If you’re not involved, and want to come along, the details are on the NSAS website. Tuesday the 13th the Theory Group will meet at the new time of 7:45. Tuesday the 20th is the General Meeting, where we will vote for the Geoff Welch Prize winner(s), and our speaker is Dr David Frew from Macquarie University. The topic is something related to planetary nebulae, his specialty (details later). The NAG finished up last month for this time around, so we will have to wait for a new group of budding observers next year to start up again. Observing at N. Turramurra this month is the 23rd and 30th.
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NSAS Activities for August
8 08 2011We start out August with the Theory Group on Tuesday the 9th, and the August General Meeting will be Tuesday the 16th. Our speaker this month is Daniel Yardley, a Ph.D candidate at University of Sydney, who will talk on “Detecting Gravitational Waves Via Radio Timing of Millisecond Pulsars” (should be interesting to those who toured the Dish in June!). On Tuesday the 23rd the New Astronomers Group will meet, and the subject should be Astrophotography. Observing this month at North Turramurra will be the Fridays 19th and 26th. As usual, all meeting start at 7:30PM at Regis Hall, Regis Campus, St. Ignatius (see directions on our website).
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NSAS Activities for July
7 07 2011After the great success of the Parkes trip, I’m afraid July may be a let-down, but we’ve got a great speaker, and our other programs will continue. Next Tuesday the 12th the Theory Group continues it’s series of lectures on Understanding the Universe. On Tuesday the 19th, we have our GM, and our speaker is Dr. Baerbel Koribalski, who will speak about the WALLABY project she heads up. The NAG will continue its course of enlightenment on observing on Tuesday the 26th, this month looking at collimation and go-to scopes. Observing is scheduled for the Fridays of the 22nd and 29th. For those of you who haven’t been to a meeting last month, don’t forget that we have moved to Regis Hall for all our meetings, which start at 7:30 PM. Directions are on the website.
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