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• Sydney Observatory

  • Start
    26 Jan 2025
  • End
    31 Dec 2025
  • Location
    1003 Upper Fort Street, Millers Point NSW 2000

  

  SYDNEY OBSERVATORY

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  1003 UPPER FORT STREET, MILLERS POINT NSW 2000

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• IAU - Indigenous Astronomy in the Space Age

  • Start
    7 Jul 2025
  • End
    11 Jul 2025
  • Location
    University of Melbourne, Grattan Street, Parkville Melbourne, Victoria

  This IAU Symposium will bring together astrophysicists, social scientists, and Indigenous Elders to explore the future of astrophysics in the Space Age by drawing from important lessons about the intersection of astronomy, culture, and society over the last 30 years. The symposium will engage with the latest scholarship in Indigenous/Cultural Astronomy to address social issues within astrophysics and examine the cross-cultural relationships between astrophysics communities and Indigenous communities around the world. The IAU proceedings will explore new research methodologies and emerging theoretical frameworks, scrutinise pathways to decolonise astronomy, and discuss ways Indigenous knowledge can guide modern astrophysics. UniMelb is a leading global institution for Indigenous community engagement through the Indigenous Knowledge Institute and the world’s only undergraduate programme in cultural astronomy. July is ideal as it is between semesters at most institutions worldwide, enabling the maximum number of participants to attend and participate in a wide range of important scientific and cultural activities available in one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world.

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• VicSouth Desert Spring Star Party 2025

  • Start
    17 Oct 2025
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    3:00 PM
  • End
    20 Oct 2025
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    10:00 AM
  • Location
    Little Desert Nature Lodge, Nhill, Victoria

  The VicSouth Desert Spring Star Party has been running since 2003 as an annual weekend of astronomy, held at the Little Desert Nature Lodge about 16km south of the town of Nhill in western Victoria (Australia). The location is about halfway between Adelaide and Melbourne so VicSouth attracts large numbers of amateur astronomers from both cities.

  
  

  VicSouth offers a great weekend of social and astronomical activity as well as some nice observing targets. Begin your night of astronomy in the massed starfields of Sagittarius, Ara, and Scutum. Then journey into the intergalactic realms of Grus, Pavo, Sculptor, Fornax, Eridanus, Aquarius, and the billions of Magellanic suns. Take a peek north at the galaxies of Andromeda and Triangulum too.

  Then as the night continues, sweep through Orion, Puppis, Canis Major, Vela, Carina and Crux. And, in the hours before dawn, Hydra and Leo.

  
  

  VicSouth occurs during spring time (to avoid the worst of the cold winter wind & rains), but before the commencement of grain harvesting (to avoid neighbouring farmers' floodlights & clouds of dust). We book the entire Lodge for our use during VicSouth and we implement various measures to keep the observing area dark.

  Bookings: https://vicsouth.info/bookings.htm
  

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