Upcoming Events
Our monthly General Meeting is held at The Braggs Lecture Theatre at the University of Adelaide at 8pm on the first Wednesday of each month, excluding January.
The General Meeting is preceeded at 7pm by an Astronomy Education session for those looking for an introduction to Astronomy and our Universe.
The main General Meeting features a presentation from a professional astronomer or guest speaker with a wide range of topics aligned with Astronomy, Space, Science and Physics.
These sessions are open to the public and free for all to attend. No ticket required.
Astronomy Education: July 2025
Wednesday, 2 July 2025 7:00 PM
We continue our discussion of Stellar Evolution with a complete overview of the lives of stars of various masses from birth within gaseous nebulae to their ultimate demise as a white dwarf or supernova explosion.
General Meeting: July 2025
Wednesday, 2 July 2025 8:00 PM
The Seestar S50 is an entry-level 'smart' telescope originally targeted at novice observers, but now with an enthusiastic group of experienced devotees who have realised that it is capable of much more than the original designers envisaged. In this talk we will hear about the basic capabilities of the Seestar and how, with a relatively simple workflow and some free third-party software, that it's possible to make extraordinarily accurate measurements of variable stars. The talk will be illustrated with material from Andrew's Masters research project, showing several light curves from eclipsing binaries, and Cepheid and SX Phe variables, and briefly discussing the mechanisms responsible for their variations in brightness.
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