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 | 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...
by Jonathan Nally | Dec 22, 2019 | Amateur astronomy, Astronomy, News
Above: Observers in Darwin will see around 43% of the Sun’s diameter covered up by the Moon. Image courtesy Joshua Tree National Park. Amateur astronomers in the northern of Australia will witness a partial solar eclipse on December 26. The event will actually be an...
by Jonathan Nally | Dec 13, 2019 | Amateur astronomy, Astronomy, News, Variable stars
The NSW regional city Parkes, home to the CSIRO radio observatory, will host the National Australian Convention of Amateur Astronomers in 2020. The premier Australian amateur astronomy conference, the National Australian Convention of Amateur Astronomers (or NACAA;...
by Jonathan Nally | Sep 29, 2019 | Amateur astronomy, Features, News, Telescopes
Above: The domes of the McNamara-Saunders Astronomical Teaching Telescope 2 at Mount Stromlo Observatory. Image courtesy MSATT. High school students in the ACT are now the envy of their peers in other parts of the country, following the opening on September 25 of an...
by Jonathan Nally | Sep 13, 2019 | Amateur astronomy, Astronomy, Features, News
Above: Andy Casely’s sequence of Mars images, ‘Death of Opportunity’. Two Australian astrophotographers have been announced as winners, runners up or highly commended in the Royal Observatory Greenwich’s title of Insight Investment Astronomy...
