by Jonathan Nally | Jun 4, 2021 | Amateur astronomy, News, Telescopes
Optronics Technologies, the company behind well-known astronomical supplier Orion Telescopes & Binoculars, has announced that it has bought telescope maker Meade Instruments. The acquisition has been approved by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central...
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 | 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 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...
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...
