2016 schedule (Saturday)

 

09:15-10:30
Keynote: Fireworks at the heart of the Galaxy
Professor Joss Bland-Hawthorn
Keynote
11:00-11:30
Observing Betelgeuse in the near IR
Jonathan Powles (for Carl Knight)
Talk
11:00-11:30
The Parramatta Star Catalogue: A New Perspective
Andrew James
Talk
11:30-12:00
Pro-Am Spectroscopy in the Southern Hemisphere
Bernard Heathcote
Talk
11:30-12:00
Discovering Southern double stars - the 20th century
Ross Gould
Talk
12:00-12:30
Colour Photometry in Astrophysics
Stan Walker
Talk
12:00-12:30
New discoveries in the Solar System
Dr John Wilkinson
Talk
13:30-14:00
SASER and the 2015 Gamma 2 Velorum campaign
Jonathan Powles
Talk
13:30-14:00
The need for an Australian Astronomy and Space Science Education Network
Paul Floyd
Talk
14:00-14:30
The Stellar Detective - reading the clues in light curves
Tom Richards
Talk
14:00-14:30
The future of lighting is better if it's dim
Mike Chapman
Talk
14:30-15:00
Video Astronomy
Hristo Pavlov
Talk
14:30-15:00
The Australian Variable Star Hunt
Mike Thompson, Jacinta Lee Den Besten
Talk
15:30-16:30
Perdrix Address: 50 Years of NACAA
Brett McMillan
Plenary
16:30-17:00
NACAA AGM
NACAA Inc
Meeting
19:00-23:00
Convention Dinner
Social
20:30-21:15
After Dinner Speaker: Trollops, Tyrants and Telescopes - Tales from Astronomy's Underbelly
Professor Fred Watson
Invited