ASV News
GMT in the News
An interesting article about the Great Melbourne Telescope appeared in The Age recently:
Comet/Meteor Section Meeting
The Comet/Meteor sections are looking to organise a meeting at Parer st, on a Thursday night in mid April.
Free Public Lecture 15th February
The Monash Centre for Astrophysics is organising a public talk by Brian Schmidt.
The free public talk will be on the 15th February at Monash University Clayton Campus. The talk will be at 6 pm in the South One lecture theatre.
In 1998, two teams traced back the expansion of the universe over billions of years and discovered that it was accelerating, a startling discovery that suggests that more than 70% of the cosmos is contained in a previously unknown form of matter, called Dark Energy. The 2011 Nobel Laureate for Physics, Brian Schmidt, leader of the High-Redshift Supernova Search Team, will describe this discovery and explain how astronomers have used observations to trace our universe's history back more than 13 billion years, leading them to ponder the ultimate fate of the cosmos.
Here is a website with more information about the talk:
New ASV Observatory
Thanks to Phil for this timelaspe movie of the new ASV Observatory constuction at LMDSS.
LMDSS Observatory Raising from Phil Hart on Vimeo.
Beavis Star Atlas Story
A must read for all ASV members, and includes a great picture of Barry at the State Library of Victoria. Fully story available online at The Age website.
ASV Comet Section
Hi All
For members interested in all things comet related, please join the ASV Comet section yahoo page
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/asvcometsection/?yguid=352245513
The group caters for all levels of experience.
The group page has a wealth of information, including finder charts on comets visible in our skies at the moment.
Please call me if you have any questions
Regards
Con Stoitsis
Director
ASV-Comet Section 0421 616 547
Wanted : Your favourite astro web-sites
The New Astronomers Group (NAG) publishes a "Getting started" CD for members when they join NAG. One of the pages is a list of Astronomy web-sites. While there are sites that will always be a great source of info the world wide web is a dynamic place so every few years I want to give this page a total refresh a keep it relevant. I am looking for your contributions with the only caveat being they are Astronomy related and helpful for people just starting out in Astronomy. ASV member web-sites are welcome but the more logical place is the ASV web-site own members site page which I already have a link to.
I have made a post on the ASV discussion groups so please visit www.asv.org.au, login as a member, head for the message boards, and add your suggestions under general discussion for the New Astronomers' Group forum. Or you can send an e-mail (not as much fun) to me at: nag@asv.org.au
Thank you... Ken LeMarquand
Section Director for the New Astronomers' Group.
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