Prominence Training P/L continues to sponsor the operation of NACAA by funding its web site and teleconferencing costs, providing computer equipment, as well as countless hours of technical support over the last two years.
NACAA Inc is pleased to announce that the next NACAA will be held in Melbourne, hosted by the Astronomical Society of Victoria. The date for the convention is April 18-21, 2014. Click here to find out more information. Start planning your trip to Melbourne now!
Dr Albert Jones, OBE, FRASNZ, passed away in Nelson on 14 September 2013, aged 93 years, following a short illness. He was one of the world’s best known amateur astronomers and was actively observing up until just a couple of years ago. Over his lifetime he amassed in excess of 500,000 variable star observations, as…
The 27th NACAA will be hosted by the Sutherland Astronomical Society, at a venue somewhere in southern Sydney. Put the dates 2016 March 25-28 in your diary now. If you are not already a NACAA member, join NACAA to receive updates on this important event: the 50th anniversary of NACAA.
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…
The 4th Variable Stars South Symposium was held in conjunction with NACAA XXVII. The event was well attended, with many excellent presentations. You can read a report here.
Quasar Publishing, producers of the well respected and much read Astronomy yearbooks, will yet again be producing the programme handbook for NACAA. We thank Quasar for their continued support.