2024 events

Sat 30th
15:30-16:30
Starlight Room

The Travels, Travails, and Triumphs of an Amateur Astronomer Through The Decades

Colin Bembrick

Sutherland AS, Central West AS

From a 50mm refractor to a 40cm Schmidt-Cassegrain; from visual observing of Sputnik I to Lunar grazing occultations, Jupiter satellite phenomena, minor planet occultations and astrometry of supernovae; from home-built photoelectric photometer, kit-built photometer; to CCD photometry of variable stars and minor planets: this is the story of the "education" of one amateur astronomer.