Hi everyone. YES!!! 15th MAY !! The new site is now officially coming online and will be used for a number of society observing events in the coming months. At 3pm today, we will be signing the relevant agreement to make the site available to the society for the first year as part of the…
Continue ReadingHi everyone, There are still a few days left to submit your entries to the March 2021 Monthly Showcase. Remember, the entries can be photos, videos, drawings, articles, anything astronomy related. Please send your entries to me at bpetschel@gmail.com. Please ensure that all images have a maximum size of 1200 pixels on the longest side…
Continue ReadingHi everyone Well wasn’t that landing of Perseverance quite an amazing thing to watch. It all seemed so routine as it appeared to go like clockwork with no hitches at all. If you missed it here is the full 2.5hour broadcast but you can fast forward to the 1h 30min mark just before it enters…
Continue ReadingHi everyone Welcome to 2021 and the start of our General Meeting speaker series. We have a great lineup of speakers for this year covering a range of topics including; Radio astronomy, Space Archeology, the latest research using ASKAP, the Juno mission to Jupiter and quite a number of other interesting topics. We’ve got more…
Continue ReadingHi everyone, There are still a few days left to submit your entries to the January 2021 Monthly Showcase. Remember, the entries can be photos, videos, drawings, articles, anything astronomy related. Please send your entries to me at bpetschel@gmail.com. Please ensure that all images have a maximum size of 1200 pixels on the longest side…
Continue ReadingHi everyone. Welcome to the New Year and hope you all continue to be safe. Well – Wasn’t 2020 a bit of a washout? First we had smoke, then COVID19 and now the La Niña is spreading it’s cloud and rainfall all about. According to Wiki, a La Niña lasts at least 5 months so…
Continue ReadingHi everyone, There are still a few days left to submit your entries to the December 2020 Monthly Showcase. Remember, the entries can be photos, videos, drawings, articles, anything astronomy related. Please send your entries to me at bpetschel@gmail.com. Please ensure that all images have a maximum size of 1200 pixels on the longest side…
Continue ReadingHi everyone, There are still a few days left to submit your entries to the November 2020 Monthly Showcase. Remember, the entries can be photos, videos, drawings, articles, anything astronomy related. Please send your entries to me at bpetschel@gmail.com. Please ensure that all images have a maximum size of 1200 pixels on the longest side…
Continue ReadingHello, This is the webpage for the Heart of Darkness Talk and Podcast. Regards, Tony https://www.sydney.edu.au/engage/events-sponsorships/sydney-ideas/2020/black-holes-and-nobel-prize-in-physics.html
Continue ReadingAbstract from Vanessa Moss: Behind the scenes at ASKAP The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder is the nation’s newest radio telescope, featuring advanced receiver technology designed and built at CSIRO. Last year, it started the first phase of Pilot Surveys for a variety of astronomy teams, which marked the end of official commissioning and set…
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