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Not everyone is coming to NACAA XXV for the technical programme. The LOC is organising excursions for partners who want to see something of Brisbane over the weekend. Click here to register your interest.

NACAA Inc is pleased to announce that the next NACAA will be held in Melbourne, hosted by the Astronomical Society of Victoria. The date for the convention is April 18-21, 2014. Click here to find out more information. Start planning your trip to Melbourne now!

Variable star observers, and serious astroimagers, may be interested in participating with Lowell Observatory’s amateur research initiative. Visit their web site for more information.

Graham Blow, director of the RASNZ Occultation Section, was today awarded an Officer of the New Zealand Order of  Merit for his services to astronomy. Graham has worked tirelessly for many years to promote occultation observations in Australia and New Zealand, and was responsible for the creation of the successful Trans-Tasman Symposia on Occultations. The 8th TTSO…

The Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Australian National University has made a generous donation towards the running of NACAA XXVI. We thank the RSAA for their support.

Australian Sky & Telescope magazine continues to sponsor NACAA by providing free advertising space in their magazine. We thank Greg Bryant and the AS&T team for their generous support.

The NACAA web site suffered its third crash last Friday. As a result, we had to shut down the site for the weekend while we repaired the damage. You can read the story here if you are interested. Mea culpa. There may be some problems we haven’t found yet, so please let us know if…

We have closed registrations for NACAA XXVI. Sorry if you missed out on a great convention.

Our web site was down for several hours this afternoon (Sunday, April 6 2014). Apparently, our hosting provider’s “senior admins”, while trying to fix a simple CPanel permissions issue, managed to lock out our web site software from our database. After several hours of trying to get them to fix their mistake, I went in…

The Astronomical Society of Australia presented the 2014 Berenice and Arthur Page Medal to Dr Tim Napier-Munn of the AAQ for his work on modelling the factors that affect the ability to resolve close double stars. NACAA congratulates Tim for his award.