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.
The Ballaarat Astronomical Society will host the 28th NACAA over Easter 2018 (March 30-April 2). Everyone interested in amateur astronomy is invited to attend. You can find the full details here.
The Sixth Variable Stars South Symposium (VSSS6) will be held on Friday, April 10th, 2020 in Parkes NSW, just prior to the NACAA meeting. VSSS6 will have a single stream of presentations as well as a poster display. The VSSS6 Programme Committee (David O’Driscoll and Mark Blackford) is now calling for presentations for the Friday…
The 2010 convention was held in Canberra, and was a great success. You can read all about it here.
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 10th Trans-Tasman Symposium on Occultations will be held in conjunction with NACAA again in 2016. The symposium will start in the afternoon of Sunday March 27, and continue on Monday March 28. Stay tuned for further announcements.
Alas, the new web server crashed too, and we have been migrated to another server. Fingers crossed things will work fine now. The site has been down for a day or so, starting from around 20:00 Friday Feb 21. This has affected a number of registrations which we are working to fix. Sorry again for…