In this edition:
• Club Activities
• Maleny – January & February Observing Evenings
• March–April Events
• Fabulous Image of Omega Centauri
• Teach Yourself Astronomy
• Did Life Begin in Space
• The Sky in March
• Space Rocks Unique
• Equipment for Sale
• BAS Information
• Astrophotography Workshop
In this edition:
• Club Activities
• Student Helps Discover New Planet
• Eighth Planet Discovered in Kepler-90 Star System
• December–January Events
• SkyMapper Creates Best Map Yet of the Southern Sky
• The Sky in December
• A Catastrophic Senryũ
• Equipment for Sale
• Bas Information
• Four Spacecraft Parked at the Space Station
A Farewell . . . and a Welcome
Club Activities
February–March Events
The Sky in February
The Moon from Geostationary Orbit
A Four-planet System in Orbit: Directly Imaged!
Equipment for Sale
Brisbane LED Street Lighting Trials
Discovery of Water on 51 Peg b
BAS Information
Spectacular Close-up of Saturn’s Rings
A very big thank you to Peter Kinne, head of sales for Gilmnour Space Technologies, for speaking at our October 2019 monthly meeting. It’s not often you get the chance to handle a chunk of rocket fuel – thank you Peter for bringing it along for show & tell. Now we all have a much better understanding of hybrid rocket technology and why this is likely to be Australia’s next pathway to space. BAS looks forward with huge anticipation to the next GST rocket launch.
At our July monthly meeting we held the annual BAS Astro Quiz for 2019. While surreptitious use of Google and Wikpedia were not endorsed at the meeting you are now free to give the quiz a try at home with every astro-resource available to you. No answers provided here, you will just have to do your own research. A PDF version of the quiz slides is available for download: Click Here
