by Jonathan Nally | Feb 24, 2020 | Amateur astronomy, Astronomy
AUSTRALIA’S BIENNIAL AMATEUR ASTRONOMY conference is less than two months away, with registrations now open for sessions and social functions. The National Australian Convention of Amateur Astronomers is held every two years in a different city, hosted by one or more...
by Jonathan Nally | Feb 17, 2020 | Astronomy, News, Variable stars
Above: Before and after images of the star Betelgeuse. Astronomers suspect the changes are due to changes in convection activity on the Betelgeuse’s surface or obscuration by clouds of dust surrounding the star. ESO/M. Montargès et al. OBSERVATIONS MADE WITH THE...
by Jonathan Nally | Feb 4, 2020 | Astronomy, Planets, Telescopes
Above: NEID team members installing a large prism into the spectrometer. NEID should have three times the precision of previous radio velocity spectrometers, enabling it to discover more Earth-mass exoplanets. Courtesy the NEID team. ASTRONOMERS HOPE A NEW...
by Jonathan Nally | Jan 28, 2020 | Astronomy, Cosmology, Telescopes
Above: CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope is to be equipped with a new receiver system, called ‘cryoPAF,’ which will triple the telescope’s field of view. Image courtesy CSIRO. TWO OF THE CSIRO’S RADIO TELESCOPE FACILITIES — Parkes and the Australia Telescope Compact...
by Jonathan Nally | Jan 14, 2020 | Amateur astronomy, Astronomy, Features, News
ECLIPSES, OPPOSITIONS, SPECTACULAR CONJUNCTIONS, a close encounter between Venus and the Pleiades and many more celestial sights await stargazers this year. Here’s our list of events to mark in your calendar. All of them are as seen from mid-latitudes in the Southern...
