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Tassie schools to received free telescopes

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....

Here’s what’s in our Mar/Apr issue

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...

Space centre for WA school as part of $16.1m upgrade

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...

Parkes radio telescope added to National Heritage List

by Jonathan Nally | Aug 10, 2020 | Astronomy, News, Telescopes

Above: The CSIRO’s 64-metre-diameter Parkes radio telescope, located in central NSW. Credit: CSIRO/A. Cherney. AUSTRALIA’S MOST FAMOUS RADIO DISH, the Parkes radio telescope in central NSW, has been added to the official National Heritage List. Construction of the...

Review finds Australian astronomy is paying dividends

by Jonathan Nally | Jul 9, 2020 | Astronomy, Cosmology, Telescopes

ABOVE: The Anglo Australian Telescope at Siding Springs Observatory. Photo: Ángel R. López-Sánchez AUSTRALIA’S INVESTMENT IN ASTRONOMY and its hosting of two of the world’s most powerful telescopes means the country is well placed to contribute to more big...

Siding Spring to get new infrared survey telescope

by Jonathan Nally | May 31, 2020 | Amateur astronomy, Astronomy, Features, News, Telescopes

Above: An artist’s impression of gas swirling into a black hole. The Dynamic REd All-Sky Monitoring Survey (DREAMS) telescope will try to spot infrared radiation from black holes, neutron stars, quasars and many other objects in deep space. A NEW INFRARED...