2008

Convenor: Fred Vanderhaven, ASNSW Schedule: To be advised This round-table session will cover two exciting new areas in astro-imaging: The use of narrow-band filters, such as H-alpha, SII and OIII, allows extracting detailed structure from deep-sky objects that does not appear in conventional wide-band imaging. The resulting images offer a totally new view of familiar…

Convenor: Barry Adcock, ASV Date: Friday March 21 Time: 1:30PM Cost: $25 (refreshments included). Click here to register. This workshop will explain to the participants the fundamentals of lens design. A definition and explanation of terms pertaining to lens design, starting from basic concepts, will be presented. This will include the optical properties of glasses,…

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…

Convenor: Col Bembrick, Mt Tarana Observatory The topics for this round-table will include, but not be limited to: planning future observing sessions, ways of improving/standardising data, options of handling group analyses, communication protcols, data transmission protocols.