Presenter(s): Albert Brakel
Affiliation(s): Canberra Astronomical Society
Session details: Saturday, 2010-04-02 22:00:00
Albert Brakel, Convenor of NACAA XXIV, will welcome the attendees and officially open the convention.
Presenter(s): Andrew James Affiliation(s): Non-Affiliated Independent Amateur Astronomers (NAIAA) Session details: Posters Abstract For many years I have been slowly collecting historical information of past Aurora Australis observations seen from Sydney and NSW, and have uncovered many dozen reports between 1820 and 2015. By collecting these various observations, the combined data gives important clues about…
Presenter(s): Peter Matters Affiliation(s): ASV Session details: Saturday, 2022-04-23 04:15:00, ONL Abstract I will start by discussing how temperature and dew point/relative humidity are related and work together. This will be explained using the examples of the kitchen kettle and the bathroom shower/mirror, and how they are related to cloud formation. Next will be the…
Presenter(s): Michael Brown Affiliation(s): Monash University Session details: Sunday, 2018-03-31 23:00:00, MCON Abstract I will discuss how amateur telescopes can be used to retrace the past 150 years of astrophysics. Amateur telescopes combined with modern detectors are now more capable than professional equipment from a century ago. Amateur astronomers can thus observe the consequences of…
Session details: Saturday, 2026-04-03 22:00:00 Abstract This is the official welcome to the Convention. Speakers will include: Chair, David O’Driscoll (General Secretary) Welcome to country Welcome by Tamworth Mayor, Russell Webb Welcome from TRAC President, Garry Copper LOC Announcements, Bryce Little (Convenor)
Affiliation(s): MSSSO Session details: Saturday, 2012-04-07 10:00:00, TBA Abstract The talk covers my progression from a high-school lad paying 6d to see the Moon at a school fete, through 42 years of astronomical research during what I class as the Heroic Age of Australian Astronomy. From 1965 to the mid1990s I was fortunate to be…
Presenter(s): David J. W. Moriarty Affiliation(s): AAQ & VSS Session details: Saturday, 2014-04-19 02:00:00, New York Abstract Many of the targets in the Variable Stars South programme on southern eclipsing binaries have not been studied in detail since discovery, or only partially with data from the ASAS project. When I started on targets in 2011,…