Hi everyone Well here we are again! I hope you are all keeping safe and well. It was looking quite promising there for a bit but we find ourselves back in lockdown. As a result of the current lockdown we have unfortunately had to cancel the trip to Coonabarabran which is a great shame as…
Continue ReadingHi everyone I’m delighted to let you know that our new observing site now has a name – Forest Trail Park. The significance of the name is that there is a walking track that goes right past the site called Forest Trail for which Greg McCall recently made a short video of which is in…
Continue ReadingHi everyone We have had a busy month with the new NSAS Observation field getting it’s first light on the 15th May. It was a good night with about 20 telescopes breaking the soil so to speak. I managed to grab a nice shot of the sunset and Greg McCall took this shot of NGC6727…
Continue ReadingWOW – a bumper month again this month with much going on. Firstly – We return to Regis Hall for our first face-to-face meeting in a while 7:30pm Tuesday 18th May. For those who’ve become addicted to Zoom we will also be “zooming” the meeting which might prove technically challenging but we will see how…
Continue ReadingHi 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 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 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…
Continue ReadingGuys, Our guest speaker for November will be Vanessa Moss from CSIRO. She will speak on data management at the SKA. In keeping with our COVID safe policy, this will be conducted via Zoom. This meeting is open to everybody (i.e. NSAS members and non-members alike). The meeting is scheduled for Tuesday 17th November, starting…
Continue ReadingGuys, Our virtual (Zoom) guest speaker for this month is Dr Stuart Ryder, FASA (Adjunct Fellow, Dept of Physics & Astronomy, Macquarie University) who will give a talk on “Bursting with Excitement: Where do Fast Radio Bursts come from?” (details below). This will be held on Tuesday 15th September at 7:30pm. This presentation is open…
Continue ReadingOur virtual (Zoom) guest speaker for this month is Sarah Caddy (PhD candidate at Macquarie University’s Dept of Physics and Astronomy) who will give a talk on “Optical and infrared space telescopes” (details below). This will be held on Tuesday 18th August at 7:30pm. This presentation is open to all (i.e. NSAS members and non-members)….
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