Apologies to those of you who have enquired about the 2014 Conference DVD. As often happens, the people working on collating and editing the material have been distracted by other things, and have been very slow to create the DVD. We thank you for your patience.
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 Binocular and Telescope Shop will yet again provide the satchels for NACAA. We thank Mike Smith and the BinTel crew for their much appreciated support of NACAA over many years.
The NACAA web site has yet again encountered serious technical problems. This has delayed our Call for Presentations, and other announcements.The good news is that the problems are now fixed.
NACAA is sad to report that Mike Smith, proprietor of The Binocular and Telescope Shop (BinTel) and long-term NACAA sponsor, has suffered a major stroke. He is making a slow recovery. NACAA extends its best wishes to Mike and Lil, and the BinTel staff. Get well soon, Mike!
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.
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…