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Session details: Saturday, 2020-04-11 02:30:00
Session details: Saturday, 2020-04-11 02:30:00
Presenter(s): Stephen Kerr Affiliation(s): Trans-Tasman Occultation Alliance Session details: Monday, 2026-04-05 23:00:00 Abstract Welcome and Introduction, followed by: Reviewing the results of observations by TTOA through 2025 with summary and statistics. Introduction to the new website. Biography Steve Kerr is a lifelong amateur astronomer based in Rockhampton, Queensland. He is the present director of the…
Presenter(s): Surjit (Serge) Wadhwa Affiliation(s): ASNSW, VSS Session details: Saturday, 2020-04-11 04:30:00, STAR Abstract The merger of contact binary stars is a rare event. The result however can be dramatic resulting in a nova like explosion that remains quite bright in the red and infra-red end of the spectrum but declines rapidly at visual wavelengths….
Session details: Monday, 2016-03-28 00:30:00, LT106 Abstract David and Joan Dunham have been travelling around Australia making occultation observations. Many of these have been multi-chord asteroidal occultations with unattended stations strategically located across predicted paths. They have used a range of equipment including some innovative telescope mounting arrangements developed by John Broughton who has also…
Presenter(s): Various Session details: Saturday, 2024-03-29 22:00:00, STAR Abstract The Central West Astronomical Society and NACAA welcome you to Parkes for our 31st event. We hope you enjoy it. We would like to acknowledge the Wiradjuri people who are the traditional custodians of the land on which we are meeting. We pay our respect to…
Presenter(s): Graeme L. White (WSAAG) and David Platz (Atherton State High School). Affiliation(s): Graeme L. White (WSAAG) and David Platz (Atherton State High School). Session details: Posters Abstract A new donated computer-controlled telescope is carried to the school sports field and parents, babies and dogs follow. The computerised model alleviates the need for any knowledge…
Presenter(s): Ed Budding Affiliation(s): Carter Observatory, VUW and UoC, New Zealand Session details: Saturday, 2020-04-11 02:00:00, SUN Abstract In recent years there has been burgeoning interest in searching out Sagan’s “little blue dot” — the twin to Earth, that will somehow advance our approach to the deeper issue “Are we alone?” These matters undoubtedly add…