VSSS 4
We are happy to announce that the 4th Variable Stars South Symposium will be held prior to NACAA XXVII on Friday March 25 2016. Full details will be provided in due course.
We are happy to announce that the 4th Variable Stars South Symposium will be held prior to NACAA XXVII on Friday March 25 2016. Full details will be provided in due course.
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 Astral Award for best presentation at NACAA XXVI was given to Saeed Salimpour of the Ballarat Astronomical Society.
Nominations are now open for the 2018 Berenice and Arthur Page Medal. The deadline is 30th November 2017. The full details can be found 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…
Australian Sky & Telescope magazine will sponsor NACAA XXV by providing advertising space in upcoming editions. We thank Greg Bryant and the AS&T team for their generous support of NACAA.
The Astronomical Society of Victoria have provided a generous donation towards the operation of NACAA XXV. We thank the ASV for their generous support.