2020 Schedule

 

08:30-09:00
Registration
Other
09:00-17:00
PixInsight Introduction
Rick Stevenson
Workshop
09:00-17:00
Variable Stars South Symposium 6
Mark Blackford
Symposium
10:30-11:00
Morning tea
Break
12:30-13:30
Lunch
Break
15:00-15:30
Afternoon tea
Break
18:30-21:30
Welcome Reception
Social
08:30-09:00
Registration
Other
09:00-09:15
Welcome addresses
Christine Speers, and John Sarkissian
Talk
09:15-10:30
High Speed Video: Amateur contributions to understanding the solar system
Anthony Wesley
Keynote
10:30-11:00
Morning tea
Break
11:00-15:00
Occultation Observing 101, 2020 style
Stephen Russell, et al.
Workshop
11:00-11:30
New Approaches to Retrievals of Jovian Atmospheric State
Padma A. Yanamandra-Fisher and The PACA Jupiter Facebook Group
Oral
11:00-11:30
Are we alone and destined for oblivion?
Tony Tanner
Oral
11:30-12:00
S Doradus; a Century of Science Fact and Fiction
Alan Plummer
Oral
11:30-12:00
Nova Search for Amateurs
Robert Kaufman
Oral
12:00-12:30
Amateur-Professional Collaboration in Radio Astronomy
John Sarkissian
Talk
12:00-12:30
The X-factor in exoplanet research
Edwin Budding
Other
12:30-13:30
Lunch
Break
13:30-14:00
The Strange Behaviour of GZ Puppis
Tom Richards
Oral
14:00-14:30
A window into delta Sct stellar interiors using eclipsing binary systems.
Margaret Streamer, Michael Ireland, and Simon Murphy
Oral
14:00-14:30
Determining the Tilt of the Earth's Axis with a Pinhole Camera
Stephen Broderick
Oral
14:30-15:00
Search for Deep Low Mass Ratio Contact Binary Stars (Red Nova Candidates)
Surjit (Serge) Wadhwa
Oral
14:30-15:00
A Short History of Time
David O'Driscoll
Oral
15:00-15:30
Afternoon tea
Break
15:30-15:45
Group photo
Social
15:45-16:15
"Take 5s" for Poster Presenters
Various
Talk
16:15-17:00
NACAA 2020 Annual General Meeting
NACAA Inc
Other
19:30-23:00
Convention Dinner
Social
20:30-21:00
Perdrix Address: "Looking Back at Looking Up"
Ray Johnston
Invited
08:30-09:30
Registration
Other
09:00-17:00
Photometric Analysis of Contact Binary Stars
Surjit (Serge) Wadhwa
Workshop
09:30-10:30
Citizen Astronomy in the era of large surveys
Dr Stella Kafka
Plenary
10:30-11:00
Morning tea
Break
11:00-11:30
Using Gravity to Find Stars
Peter Osman
Oral
11:00-11:30
Determining the Eccentricity of the Earth's Orbit
Stephen Broderick
Oral
11:30-12:30
Argentina TSE 2019
Stephen Russell
Oral
11:30-12:30
Are we alone in the Galaxy? Probably no little green men, but lots of little microbes
David Moriarty
Oral
12:30-13:30
Lunch
Break
13:30-14:00
The Role of Amateur Astronomers in Support of the Rosetta and Juno Missions
Padma A. Yanamandra-Fisher
Oral
13:30-14:00
EE Barnard: A pioneering 18th-19th astrophotographer whose astrophotos still wow us!
John Drummond
Oral
14:00-14:30
Is the Solar System Stable?
Warwick Kissling
Oral
14:00-14:30
The Role of Allsky Photometry in assessing an IDA Dark Sky Reserve
Andrew Cool
Oral
14:30-15:00
The planet Uranus
Ian Sullivan
Oral
14:30-15:00
Measuring sky brightness in the presence of the Moon
James Irish
Oral
15:00-15:30
Afternoon tea
Break
15:30-16:00
Occultations with Digital Video Cameras
Stephen Kerr
Oral
15:30-16:00
Pathway to the Stars: adding a new layer to WA’s regional Tourism Industry
Carol Redford
Oral
16:00-16:30
The review of the Asteroid Occultation Archive
Dave Gault and Dave Herald
Oral
16:00-17:00
Inland Astro-Trail Discussion Paper: seeking NACAA members' ideas
Dr Merrill Findlay
Oral
18:30-21:30
Farewell BBQ
Social
08:30-09:00
Registration
Other
09:00-12:30
The PACA Project: Ecology of Citizen Science in Astronomy
Padma A. Yanamandra-Fisher
Workshop
09:00-17:00
PixInsight: More Advanced Topics
Rick Stevenson
Workshop
09:00-17:00
TTSO14 - The Fourteenth Trans-Tasman Symposium on Occultations
Stephen Kerr
Symposium
10:30-11:00
Morning tea
Break
12:30-13:30
Lunch
Break
15:00-15:30
Afternoon tea
Break