Here is John Sandoval’s November 2019 Monthly Showcase-winning image of Orion Nebula and Running Man (resized as the original was 37MB) and Greg McCall’s January 2020 Monthly Showcase-winning image of the Triffid Nebula. Regards, Ben
Continue ReadingThe NSAS General Meeting for February will be on Tuesday the 18th February at 7:30 PM at Regis Hall, Regis Campus, St Ignatius College, Lane Cove. Our speakers this month are Pero Manojlovic and Rami Alsaberi from Western Sydney University. They will give a presentation from their PHD theses. See abstract below. As usual, visitors…
Continue ReadingHi everyone, There are still a few days left to submit your entry in the January 2020 Monthly Showcase. There haven’t been any submissions yet so you could be looking at an easy win! Remember, the targets can be anything astronomy-related and 10km and up. Please send your entries to me at bpetschel@gmail.com. Cheers, Ben
Continue ReadingWith the bushfires and storms about we were a little sceptical that our Bring Your Own Scope night would go ahead but we were pleasantly surprised that the heavens cleared up and we had a very informative session with a number of people achieving their goals for the night. These included challenging photos of M42…
Continue ReadingHi everyone A reminder that this coming Tuesday (21st January) we are holding one of our popular events where you get to bring along your own scope and set it up and talk with other experienced astronomers/enthusiasts on how to get it working or ask questions about some weird aspect of it which may seem…
Continue ReadingGuys, Just to let you know that observing tonight (Sat 28/12/2019) in ON at Terry Hills. David Wallace
Continue ReadingSanta’s delivering Telescopes! Yes – I was talking to somebody who is in the know and they let me know that Santa is delivering a new telescope to one of our members for this Christmas!! So hopefully it is you! Whoever it is they must have been a good boy or girl because it sounds…
Continue ReadingIf you have looked at the NSAS Website in the last few days you may have noticed our new website is now up and running. We are still ironing out the bugs so let us know if you notice anything not quite right. A BIG thank you to Ilya Genkin who took on the challenge…
Continue ReadingReflections Dec 2019 Hi all, With this last issue of 2019, and its 12 pages, Reflections is going out with a bang. Can we expect to see even more great articles, in 2020? Hopefully, yes as it seems that our members have taken a fancy to the Monthly Showcase. Great things to come for our…
Continue ReadingHi everyone, I’m delighted to announce that the winner of the October 2019 Monthly Showcase is Nick Angelini with a beautiful image of the occultation of Saturn by the Moon. Entry and Exit images are attached. The best article is “How to extract energy from black holes” by Jean-Luc Gaubicher. All articles and images will…
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