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Annual Dinner

Saturday 11 July, 7:00pm
The Annual Dinner is one of the highlights of the year and is always a great entertaining night. This year’s dinner will be held at the Belair Park Country Club. Tickets only $44 per person.

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more... July Meetings

Astronomy Education:
Digital Astrophotography

Wednesday 1 July, 7:00pm

The ability to take stunning digital photographs of the heavens has revolutionised amateur astrophotography. How do digital cameras work and how are those wonderful images created and processed?

General Meeting:
Where do the oxygen atoms that you are breathing come from?

Wednesday 1 July, 8:00pm

Presented by Dr Lisa Kewley
Lisa Kewley is a Hubble Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy. Her area of interest is galaxy evolution. At this lecture, Dr Kewley will discuss the history of oxygen atoms, from the Big Bang through to the air that we breathe today. Oxygen atoms were created in the first stars in the universe and expelled through powerful supernovae and vast stellar winds. As matter collided, forming galaxies, oxygen was created in many generations of star formation throughout the history of the universe. Dr Kewley will present recent observations of the amount of oxygen in the universe using the Keck and Subaru telescopes on Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

more .. Upcoming Viewing Nights

Public viewing nights commence 8:00pm

Saturday 18 July

  • Southern Viewing Night Members Only
  • Stockport Viewing Night Members Only

Friday 24 July

  • NYP Group

Saturday 25 July

  • Stockport Viewing Night Members Only
  • Whyalla Public Viewing Night

Friday 31 July

  • The Heights Public Viewing Night

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more .. Today's Sun & Moon

Sunrise: 7:23am
Sunset: 5:15pm

waxing gibbous

Times are calculated for Adelaide and are approximates only.