by Jonathan Nally | Apr 27, 2021 | Amateur astronomy, Telescopes
Three high schools in Tasmania will be the first recipients of a program that will see them gifted with 20-cm telescopes. The Launceston, Exeter and Ulverstone high schools will be visited by astronomers and receive their 20-cm Dobsonian telescopes on April 29 and 30....
by Jonathan Nally | Mar 3, 2021 | Amateur astronomy, Astronomy, Meteors, News
A new festival that celebrates our historic and current connection with the night sky, will be held at Earth Sanctuary in Alice Springs from May 6 to 14, 2021. The Dark Skies Festival “will take visitors on a journey of light, sound and darkness beneath one of the...
by Jonathan Nally | Feb 9, 2021 | Amateur astronomy, Astronomy, Deep sky, Features, Galaxies, News, Telescopes
Here’s what you’ll find in the Mar/Apr 2021 issue of Australian Sky & Telescope magazine — on sale this week at your local newsagent, or you can subscribe to the print or digital edition. Features: How did we get the asteroid belt? — Asteroids might tell us...
by Jonathan Nally | Aug 18, 2020 | Amateur astronomy, Astronomy, Telescopes
Above: WA Premier, Mark McGowan, visited Joseph Banks Secondary College to make the announcement of a $16.1m upgrade to school facilities. Image courtesy Joseph Banks Secondary College. PERTH’S JOSEPH BANKS SECONDARY COLLEGE will get a new building featuring a space...
by Jonathan Nally | Aug 17, 2020 | Amateur astronomy, Astronomy, News
Here’s what you’ll find in the Sep/Oct issue of Australian Sky & Telescope magazine — on sale now at your local newsagent, or you can subscribe to the print or digital edition. Features: The hunt for the first exomoons — Scientists are trying to detect moons...
by Jonathan Nally | Jul 3, 2020 | Amateur astronomy, Astronomy, Planets
ABOVE: An artist’s impression showing a Neptune-sized planet in the ‘Neptunian Desert’. It is extremely rare to find an object of this size and density so close to its star. Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick. THE SURVIVING CORE OF A GAS GIANT...
