Presenter(s): Col Bembrick
Affiliation(s): SASI, CWAS, VSS
Session details: Posters
An informal group of amateurs – mainly in NZ and Australia – have contributed significantly over the years to a number of areas of asteroid/minor planet research
As per the previous poster
Presenter(s): James Irish Affiliation(s): Citizen astronomer, ASV Session details: Sunday, 2020-04-12 04:30:00, SUN Abstract Astronomers, unless they are lunar aficionados, don’t like moonlight or clouds. But, just as the Sun illuminates the daytime, excites solar observers and enables sun photometry, the Moon can also be used as the luminance source for measuring sky brightness. SQM…
Session details: Sunday, 2010-04-04 02:00:00 Abstract 1 Hour Lunch on Sunday
Presenter(s): Andrew Pearce Affiliation(s): AAVSO, VSS Session details: Friday, 2016-03-24 23:00:00, LT106 Abstract The presentation describes the author’s long term visual monitoring program of a large number of long period variables between declination 10S and 60S. It discusses the aims of the program, the simple telescopic equipment being used and some initial results and insights….
Affiliation(s): Canberra Astronomical Society Session details: Sunday, 2010-04-03 23:00:00 Abstract 2010 is the 100th anniversary of the choice of Mt Stromlo as the site for a Commonwealth Observatory. I have been involved with the observatories for 45 of these years. This talk will be a “potted history” of Stromlo and its daughter observatory at Siding…
Affiliation(s): AAQ, IOTA Session details: Saturday, 2012-04-07 01:30:00, TBA Abstract Occultations of stars by asteroids don’t tend to happen when it is convenient to the observer. This of course isn’t a problem for the vast majority of humanity who has sufficient sense to be tucked away in bed during the wee small hours. For the…
Presenter(s): Warwick Kissling Affiliation(s): RASNZ Session details: Sunday, 2020-04-12 04:00:00, STAR Abstract The question of whether the Solar System is stable (or not) was first hinted at by Isaac Newton, and since his time this problem has been tackled, to no avail, by some of the world’s most famous mathematicians. In the last few years,…