Session details: Saturday, 2026-04-03 22:00:00
This is the official welcome to the Convention. Speakers will include:
Convenor: Helen Sim (ATNF) Panellists: Robert Hollow (ATNF), David Malin (AAO, ret), John O’Byrne (USyd) The International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009) will be a global celebration of astronomy and its contributions to society and culture, highlighted by the 400th anniversary of the first use of an astronomical telescope by Galileo Galilei. The aim of the…
Presenter(s): Steve Rowlands Session details: Sunday, 2024-03-30 22:00:00, STAR Abstract AIP4Win, written by Richard Berry, has been a significant astronomical image processing program for many years, especially useful in reducing astronomical images for obtaining and reporting photometric data. With the increase in image size in MB and the memory limitations of the Visual Basic programming…
Presenter(s): Andrew Pearce Affiliation(s): AAVSO, Variable Stars South Session details: Saturday, 2024-03-30 03:00:00, STAR Abstract This presentation will describe a systematic nova hunting program that has been undertaken since 2021 using a simple DSLR camera from my backyard in Perth. The presentation will focus on the techniques used as well as discovery circumstances of the…
Presenter(s): Brett McMillan Affiliation(s): Sutherland Astronomical Society Inc Session details: Saturday, 2016-03-26 04:30:00, LT101 Abstract In 1965, a group of members from the James Cook Astronomers Club (now the Sutherland Astronomical Society Inc.) visited the Canberra Astronomical Society at what was then the premier astronomical observatory in Australia. During discussions, it was suggested that a…
Presenter(s): Dave Gault and Dave Herald Affiliation(s): RASNZ Occultation Section Session details: Sunday, 2020-04-12 06:00:00, STAR Abstract The Asteroid Occultation Archive is probably the most comprehensive record of mankind’s attempt to set the scale of the solar system’s family of asteroids, planets and planetary satellites, by direct measurements (not inferred by indirect assumptions). It is…
Presenter(s): Dr. Peter Skilton & John Cleverdon Affiliation(s): MPAS (Mornington Peninsula Astronomical Society) Session details: Sunday, 2024-03-31 03:00:00, STAR Abstract In the mid-1800’s, the largest known iron meteorite in the world was encountered by chance by European settlers south east of Melbourne in the township of Cranbourne, where it had rested for about a century….