2018 Proceedings

 

18:00-20:00
Registrations Open
Other
18:30-22:00
Welcome Reception
Social
08:30-09:00
Registrations Open
Other
09:00-10:00
Welcome & Keynote Address
Professor Virginia Kilborn
Keynote
10:00-10:30
132 Years of Astronomy in Ballarat
Judith Bailey
Talk
10:30-11:00
Morning Tea (Saturday)
Break
11:00-11:30
Looking at the Sky Through a Glass Ceiling
Donna Burton
Talk
11:30-12:00
Astronomy and the Gold Rush
Darren Bellingham
Talk
12:00-12:30
Big Skies Collaboration
Dr Merrill Findlay
Talk
12:30-13:30
Lunch (Saturday)
Break
13:30-14:00
AD Canis Minoris: a delta Scuti star in a binary system
Roy Andrew Axelsen and Tim Napier-Munn
Talk
14:00-14:30
Photometry, spectroscopy and radial velocities of the near contact binary V0775 Cen and the contact binary TW Cru
David J. W. Moriarty
Talk
14:30-15:15
Heritage value of Melbourne Observatory
Dr Barry Clark
Talk
15:15-15:30
Afternoon Tea (Saturday)
Break
15:30-16:30
Perdrix Address - NACAA Past, NACAA Recent, and NACAA Future
Stephen Russell
Invited
16:30-17:00
NACAA AGM 2018
NACAA INC
Meeting
18:30-23:30
NACAA Dinner, Keynote Speaker and Awards
A/Prof. Emma Ryan-Weber
Social
08:30-09:00
Registrations Open
Other
09:00-09:30
Astrophysics with small telescopes
Michael Brown
Talk
09:30-10:00
CMOS Cameras for Astronomy Education & Research
Steve Fleming and Tex Moon
Talk
10:00-10:30
A visit to the Very Large Telescope
Chris Morley
Talk
10:30-11:00
Morning Tea (Sunday)
Break
11:00-11:30
Bendigo:- A case study in LED streetlights and light pollution.
Mike Chapman
Talk
11:30-11:45
The variation of sky brightness with latitude and sidereal time in the absence of Moon or clouds
James Irish
Talk
11:45-12:00
The estimation of astronomical seeing for sites in Australia
James Irish
Talk
12:00-12:30
Cassini: the Grand Finale
Dr John Wilkinson
Talk
12:30-13:30
Lunch (Sunday)
Break
13:30-14:00
The Great American Eclipse
Dr Russell Cockman
Talk
14:00-14:30
Solar Astronomy - highlights of cycle 24.
Dr John Wilkinson
Talk
14:30-15:00
Timeballs and Telegraphs
Ian Sullivan
Oral
15:00-15:30
Afternoon Tea (Sunday)
Break
15:30-16:00
From point of light to astrophysical model - the research reach of the modern amateur
Thomas J Richards, Colin S Bembrick
Talk
16:00-16:30
The Magellanic Cloud Luminous Blue Variables
Alan Plummer
Talk
16:30-17:00
Infrared Studies of the Outer Planets
Barry Adcock
Talk
18:00-20:00
Registrations Open
Other
18:45-22:45
Farewell Function
Ballarat Observatory
Other
08:30-09:00
Registrations Open
Other
09:00-17:00
TTSO12 - The Twelfth Trans-Tasman Symposium on Occultations
Stephen Kerr
Symposium
09:00-15:30
Dark Sky Symposium - Working Towards Dark Skies
IDAVic
Symposium