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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.

NSAS Events for August

bobsastro — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:27:23 +0000

In August, the first NSAS event is the Theory Group on Tuesday the 10th, where this dedicated group will see further lectures in the series “Understanding the Universe”. The August General Meeting is on Tuesday the 17th, and the guest speaker is Orsola De Marco, Associate Professor of Physics at Macquarie U. She will present a talk on the subject “Planetary Nebulae: death shrouds of lonely stars or aftermath of binary interactions?”. See the separate post for an abstract. The New Astronomers Group meets Tuesday the 24th, and after the big turnout in July, we suggest anyone with a scope who has questions on how to set it up, use it, or observe, come along. All meetings are at St. Ignatius at 7:30PM.

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.

Theory Group Meeting Tuesday the 11th

bobsastro — Sun, 09 May 2010 07:51:50 +0000

The 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.

May Meetings

bobsastro — Sat, 01 May 2010 05:33:20 +0000

May 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.