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.
Session details: Posters Abstract Collaborative observations of Near Earth Asteroid (436724) 2011 UW158 recently revealed that it was a superfast rotator asteroid. The extensive data and the light curves obtained spanning over wide Phase Angle range of 17 to 90 degrees allow us to derive an accurate H and G parameters and also shape of…
Affiliation(s): Astronomical Society of Victoria Session details: Posters Abstract Reconstruction of the Great Melbourne Telescope began in 2009 at Museum Victoria. Weekly workshop sessions since then have been attended by a team of about a dozen active volunteers from the Astronomical Society of Victoria. Initial years were largely taken up by making new engineering drawings…
Session details: Sunday, 2016-03-27 07:00:00, CAFE Abstract The NACAA Farewell function is a chance to wind down at the end of a busy and exciting weekend, and get ready for Monday’s astroimaging workshop or the second part of the TTSO symposium. During the event, the Astral Award will be announced and the handover will occur to…
Session details: Friday, 2016-03-25 07:00:00, CAFE Abstract The Welcome Function is a chance to meet up with old friends and make new ones, and get ready for the Convention. The venue for the 2016 Welcome Function is “Taste Baguette” cafe, which is part of the convention venue, the New Law School Annex at the University of Sydney (follow…
Session details: Saturday, 2016-03-26 09:30:00, REF Biography Professor Fred Watson is an astronomer at the Australian Astronomical Observatory, where he is Head of Lighting and Environment. Fred is best known for his radio and TV broadcasts, talks, and other outreach programs, which earned him the 2006 Australian Government Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Science. He has also written…
Session details: Saturday, 2016-03-26 08:00:00, REF Abstract A semi-formal, three course dinner with an entertaining guest speaker (Profession Fred Watson). Arrival from 6:30pm with a 7:00pm start. The 2016 Berenice and Arthur Page Medal will be presented by the Astronomical Society of Australia.
Affiliation(s): VSS Session details: Posters Abstract Most Cepheids are massive stars which evolve rather quickly compared to low-mass stars. One way of studying this evolution is by tracking changes in the pulsation period as shown with epochs of maxima fitted to an O-C diagram. Members of Variable Stars South and its predecessors have been active…
Affiliation(s): RASNZ Occultation Section, AAQ Session details: Monday, 2016-03-28 05:00:00, LT106 Abstract The new director of the RASNZ Occultation Section will lead a discussion on where the section is operating and what is in the works for the coming years. Biography Steve Kerr is a long time occultation observer based near Rockhampton in Queensland. Unfortunately,…
Affiliation(s): CAS Session details: Monday, 2016-03-28 04:30:00, LT106 Abstract As technology and software continues to evolve and new opportunitites emerge on how occultation observation results can do new science, it is no longer enough to just record the times of occultations. Good science can be done with quality light curves and processes are being formalised…