2014 schedule (Saturday)

 

09:00-09:15
NACAA XXVI Welcome Address
Ken Le Marquand
Talk
09:15-10:30
Keynote: Mirroring Melbourne - Reflections on the Great Melbourne Telescope & Melbourne Observatory
Richard Gillespie
Keynote
10:30-11:00
Morning Tea
Break
11:00-11:30
It takes Two to Tango: the Intertwined Lives of Close Binary Stars
Tom Richards
Talk
11:00-11:30
Telescopes in Schools
Jacinta den Besten
Talk
11:30-12:00
Spotty Stars
Donna Burton
Talk
11:30-12:00
Project Exo Planet
Chris Rudge, Mike Thompson, Junior Section of the ASV
Talk
12:00-12:30
Pitfalls for Unwary Photometrists of the Understudied Southern Eclipsing Binaries
David J. W. Moriarty
Talk
12:00-12:30
Astronomy Outreach Program in the Central Region of Nepal
Ramchandra Gautam
Talk
12:00-12:30
What image intensifiers can and can't do
Barry Clark
Talk
12:30-13:30
Lunch
Break
13:30-14:30
Pro-Am Collaborative Astronomy (PACA): The New Paradigm for Scientific Research
Padma A. Yanamandra-Fisher
Talk
14:30-15:00
The Fossil of Saturn's Great Storm of 2010/2011
Trevor Barry
Talk
14:30-15:00
"Wow" Images of the Solar System
Dr John Wilkinson
Talk
15:00-15:30
Afternoon Tea
Break
15:30-16:00
Visual Comet Observing
Chris Wyatt
Talk
15:30-16:00
Captain Henry Evans Baker: A Star, Nerd or Futurist?
Saeed Salimpour and Judith Bailey
Talk
16:00-16:30
Infrared Photography of the Solar System
Barry Adcock
Talk
16:00-16:30
Tycho and Kepler in Prague
Ian A B Sullivan
Talk
16:30-17:00
Astrophotography of the Sun
Dr John Wilkinson
Talk
16:30-17:00
How to Give Great Powerpoint Presentations
Lesa Moore
Talk
18:30-23:00
Convention dinner
Social
20:00-20:45
After Dinner Speaker: New insights into how the solar system was formed, based on the wealth of new spacecraft data and a novel mathematical theory
Andrew Prentice
Invited
09:00-09:15
Welcome
Donna Burton, General Secretary, NACAA
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