The Programme Committee is pleased to announce that the programme for NACAA XXVI is now ready!!! We have had a huge response from speakers around the country and internationally. We look forward to an exciting and vibrant event, and wish to thank all those who submitted papers and posters. Full details can be found here.
The cost to register for NACAA XXVI will rise after Friday March 21. Don’t miss out. Register before the deadline. Full details can be found here.
Our web site was down for several hours this afternoon (Sunday, April 6 2014). Apparently, our hosting provider’s “senior admins”, while trying to fix a simple CPanel permissions issue, managed to lock out our web site software from our database. After several hours of trying to get them to fix their mistake, I went in…
The 25th NACAA was held in Brisbane over Easter 2012, April 6-9, hosted by the Astronomical Association of Queensland, with support from the other astronomical societies in south-east Queensland. For more information, click here.
The 2011 Nobel prize in Physics has been awarded to Saul Perlmutter, Adam Riess, and Brian Schmidt “for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae”. Brian Schmidt works at the ANU/Mount Stromlo Observatory. Read all about it here. NACAA congratulates Dr Schmidt and the ANU for this significant…
Do you want to help improve NACAA? The NACAA 2020 Programme Committee is looking for one or two volunteers to expand the expertise of the committee. You can find the full details here.
The Astronomy Society of Australia, the peak organisation for professional astronomers in Australia, is calling for nominations for the 2016 Berenice and Arthur Page Medal. Full details on the Medal and the nomination process can be found here. Note that the deadline is 2015/11/30.