7 Mar: 32 Years of the Australasian Sky Guide
Monday 7 March, 2022 at 6:30pm Dr Nick Lomb is an astronomer whose career as Curator of astronomy, timekeeping, navigation, meteorology,...
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Elizabeth Cocking
- Dec 31, 2021
- 3 min
In this month: January
1st January 1801 Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi of the Palermo Observatory discovers Ceres, the first asteroid to be discovered and...
andrew14613
- Dec 31, 2021
- 3 min
A Change of Year Comet
Travel away from city lights in early January to view Comet Leonard Andrew Wood Our change of year sky is being graced by Comet C/2021 A1...
andrew14613
- Dec 31, 2021
- 2 min
A Truly Australian Star
As darkness descends around the end of December into early January evenings, a star within the Southern Cross with a uniquely Australian...
George Mavrocordatos and Toner Stevenson
- Dec 26, 2021
- 2 min
Comet Leonard - the view from La Perouse
Sydney City Skywatcher member George Mavrocordatos has imaged Comet Leonard: I managed to be lucky enough to take my own picture of...
Elizabeth Cocking
- Nov 30, 2021
- 4 min
In this month: December
IN THIS MONTH 15th December 1966 Janus, a moon of Saturn, is discovered by French astronomer Audouin Dollfus. Astronomers were first...
Elizabeth Cocking
- Nov 7, 2021
- 1 min
Did you know? the Kuiper Belt
DID YOU KNOW This month . . . The Kuiper Belt. Home to short period comets and icy bodies in the far reaches of our solar system. The ...
Elizabeth Cocking
- Oct 31, 2021
- 4 min
In this month: November
7th November 1631 A transit of Mercury occurs. Many astronomers set up to capture Mercury's movement in front of the Sun. However only...
Janette Brenan
- Oct 29, 2021
- 1 min
The Astronomers' Bulletin Oct - Dec 2021
In this Issue: The Einstein Ring; Presidential Address at AGM; Secretary's report; Solar Observations; Observing Double Stars; SC25. You...
Andrew Wood
- Oct 22, 2021
- 3 min
Safe Solar Observing
by Andrew Wood Following a period of unusually low solar activity (the appearance on the Sun’s disc of sunspots), followers of Monty...