Speaker Night and Club Meetings

The NSAS General Meeting for November will be on Tuesday the 19th November at 7:30 PM at Regis Hall, Regis Campus, St Ignatius College, Lane Cove. Our speaker this month is Angel Lopez-Sanchez from the AAO who is going to be talking about “Dissecting dwarf galaxies with the Anglo-Australian Telescope”. As usual, visitors are most welcome! Cheers…

Dear Members, It was another interesting GM with guest speaker Marnie Ogg presenting on one of the big challenges for astronomy, namely, light pollution. It is startling that the discussions on this increasingly important issue have only really been going on in Australia this year. Members are encouraged to read a summary of this excellent…

The NSAS General Meeting for August will be on Tuesday the 20th August at 7:30 PM at Regis Hall, Regis Campus, St Ignatius College, Lane Cove. Our speaker this month is Greg Priestly, Nightscape astrophotographer. He will be talking about Nightscape imaging. See abstract below. As usual, visitors are most welcome! Cheers David Wallace A summary of…

The NSAS General Meeting for July will be on Tuesday the 16th July at 7:30 PM at Regis Hall, Regis Campus, St Ignatius College, Lane Cove. Our speaker this month is Dr Andy Casely. He will be talking about planetary imaging. See abstract below. As usual, visitors are most welcome! Cheers David Wallace Abstract: Exploring the Solar…

The NSAS General Meeting for June will be on Tuesday the 18th June at 7:30 PM at Regis Hall, Regis Campus, St Ignatius College, Lane Cove. Our speaker this month is Wayne Short, President of NSSA (National Space Society of Australia). As this year marks the 50th Anniversary of the First Manned Lunar Landing, Wayne will talk…

The NSAS General Meeting for May will be on next Tuesday the 21st May at 7:30 PM at Regis Hall, Regis Campus, St Ignatius College, Lane Cove. Our speaker this month (May) is Helen Maynard-Casely, from ANSTO, who will be talking on “Exploring the solar system with the bright lights of Australia”. As usual, visitors are most…

The NSAS General Meeting for April will be on Tuesday the 16th April at 7:30 PM at Regis Hall, Regis Campus, St Ignatius College, Lane Cove. Our speakers this month is our own Bill Vass and Ben Petschel. Bill will talk about the Fermi Paradox. Ben will talk about some of the topics in mathematical cosmology. Details…

The NSAS General Meeting for March will be on Tuesday the 19th March at 7:30 PM at Regis Hall, Regis Campus, St Ignatius College, Lane Cove. Our speaker this month is our own Kym Haines, who will be speaking on astrophotography. Details below. Title: An introduction to astrophotography with a DSLR Description: While it is easy to…

The NSAS General Meeting for February will be on Tuesday the 19th February at 7:30 PM at Regis Hall, Regis Campus, St Ignatius College, Lane Cove. Our speaker this month is Dr David Farrant. He is a Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO, leading the Optical Systems team. His work encompasses the development of optical measurement systems for…

Dear Members, Just a gentle reminder that next week on Tuesday October 16th NSAS will have a combined brief Ordinary meeting (with no speaker) and its Annual General Meeting (AGM). Our President, David Stevenson, will provide an account of the past year and an outline of what he sees for NSAS in 2019 and beyond….