Upcoming Events
Our monthly meetings, which usually feature a guest speaker, are free, open to the public and visitors are most welcome to attend.
Fast and Loose - The Mystery of Fast Radio Bursts General Meeting
Wednesday, 4 September 2019 8:00 PM
For the past decade or so, the world’s radio astronomers have been baffled by cosmic signals that defy attempts to explain them. Dating from an unrelated trawl through archival data from the Parkes Radio Telescope, the story of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) has now shifted to some of the most advanced radio astronomy facilities in the world. They include ASKAP, the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, located in remote Western Australia. But we don’t seem to have progressed very far in our understanding of FRBs. In this fully-illustrated talk, Fred Watson deviates from his lifelong work in optical astronomy to investigate what we are doing to fathom these freaks of the radio Universe.
Public Star Nights
Experience the night sky through our telescopes at public viewing nights.
Friday 6 September
Saturday 7 September
Friday 4 October
Saturday 5 October
Saturday 2 November
Members' Diary
August 2019
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| 4 | 5 | 6 | August 7, 2019EVENTS TODAY: 2 | 8 | 9 | August 10, 2019EVENTS TODAY: 1 |
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| 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | August 30, 2019EVENTS TODAY: 1 | August 31, 2019EVENTS TODAY: 2 |
