2024 Schedule

 

14:30-17:00
Planetary Imaging Workshop (cancelled due to COVID)
Anthony Wesley
Workshop
19:30-22:30
Welcome Reception
Social
09:00-09:15
Welcome to NACAA XXXI
CWAS & NACAA
Welcome
09:15-10:30
New Horizons: Advances in Camera Technology for Amateur Astronomy
Anthony Wesley
Keynote
10:30-11:00
Morning tea
Break
11:00-12:30
Getting Started in Observing Variable Stars
Mark Blackford, et al.
Panel session
11:00-11:30
Amateur Radio Interferometry
Brett Dawson
Talk
11:30-12:00
Bubbles in the early Universe
Balu Sreedhar
Talk
12:00-12:30
Amateur Radio Astronomy at the ASV
Philip Costigan
Talk
12:30-13:30
Lunch
Break
13:30-15:00
Occultation Observing 101, 2024 style
Stephen Russell
Panel session
13:30-14:00
Double star project for amateur sized telescopes and equipment
Mike Chapman, Blake Cooper, Matthew James, Spyridon Samios, and Michael Williams
Talk
14:00-14:30
Interesting Insights from a Nova Hunting Program
Andrew Pearce
Talk
14:30-15:00
The stability of the Solar system
Warwick Kissling
Talk
15:00-15:30
Afternoon tea
Break
15:30-16:30
The Travels, Travails, and Triumphs of an Amateur Astronomer Through The Decades
Colin Bembrick
Invited
16:30-17:00
NACAA Annual General Meeting
Meeting
19:30-22:30
Convention Dinner
Social
09:00-09:30
AIP4Science - The successor to AIP4Win
Steve Rowlands, Richard Berry
Talk
09:30-10:00
A Backyard Radio Telescope
Robert Shaw
Talk
10:00-10:30
Halley’s Comet in 1910 - from a New Zealand perspective
John Drummond
Talk
10:30-11:00
Morning Tea
Break
11:00-11:30
Posters Take-5
Various
Talk
11:30-12:00
Rethinking the Amateur Homemade Dome
Neville Fraser
Talk
12:00-12:30
Serpentinization - the source of energy, catalysts and nutrients for life to emerge on Earth in the Hadean aeon
David J. W. Moriarty
Talk
12:30-13:30
Lunch
Break
13:30-14:00
The Eyepieces for the Great Melbourne Telescope
Barry Adcock
Talk
14:00-14:30
The Cranbourne Meteorite Fall
Dr Peter Skilton, John Cleverdon
Talk
14:30-15:00
(594913) 'Aylo'Chaxnim : A new asteroid inside the orbit of Venus
Warwick Kissling
Talk
15:00-15:30
Afternoon Tea
Break
15:30-16:00
Background Radiation in Two Spectrums
Chris Morley
Talk
16:00-16:30
Southern eclipsing binary light curves from TESS: a collaboration between the AAQ and VSS
Roy A Axelsen, Peter N Culshaw, and Brent A Joyce
Talk
16:30-17:00
Determining the Eccentricity of the Earth's Orbit and the Tilt of the Earth's Axis
Stephen Broderick
Talk
19:30-22:30
Farewell BBQ and awards
CWAS & NACAA
Social
09:00-17:00
TTSO18 - 18th Trans Tasman Symposium on Occultations
Stephen Kerr
Symposium

This schedule may change.