by ASWA Admin | Sep 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
On Monday 13 September is the September General Meeting, Annual General Meeting and the inaugural ASWA Annual Auction. The Auction has 13 items offered for sale valued at over $3,300. Non-members can attend by pre-registering your attendance via...
by ASWA Admin | Apr 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
ASWA has a busy few weeks ahead! First up is our General Meeting on April 12, followed by Astrocamp on April 16–18. The general meeting is at 8 pm on April 12 at the Como Bowling and Recreation Club, South Perth. The guest speaker is Dr Karen Lee-Waddell, Director...
by ASWA Admin | Oct 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
Astrocamp is on! The camp is 16 – 18 October at the ASWA dark sky site outside Tammin, WA. For more information, download the Astrocamp Flyer. If you want to book, contact astrocamp@aswa-inc.au.
by ASWA Admin | May 13, 2020 | Activities
Consistent with COVID-19 restrictions our activities have been minimised. However, I am proud to say we are restarting activities. Members can attend the May General Meeting on a video link on 11 May and a Deep Sky Night at Whiteman Park is on 16 May. These are for...
by ASWA Admin | Oct 9, 2019 | Astrocamp
ASWA’s biannual star party Astrocamp has come around again for 2019. This will be held on 25 to 27 October, 2019 at the dark sky site in Tammin in the West Australian wheatbelt. The cost is free to ASWA members, and $15 for non-members. This includes a sausage...
by ASWA Admin | Aug 7, 2019 | Talks
On Monday, 12 August, Adela Kawka (Senior Research Fellow, ICRAR) will present on the “History of White Dwarfs: Two hundred years of discoveries”. The talk will happen after the ASWA general meeting on the same night. Members and potential members are...
by ASWA Admin | Apr 1, 2019 | Astrocamp
ASWA’s biannual star party Astrocamp is coming up very soon. This will be held on 5 to 7 April, 2019 at the dark sky Tammin Observatory in the West Australian Wheatbelt. The cost is free to ASWA members (and family), and $10 for non-members. This includes a...
by ASWA Admin | Mar 26, 2019 | Astrocamp
ASWA’s annual star party, Astrocamp, is coming up in two weeks. The constellation Virgo will be prominent in the sky at this time, so Sidereal Times editor Glenn Shuttleworth has written an article with lots of great information about Virgo. The article gives...
by ASWA Admin | Feb 1, 2019 | Astrofest
ASTROFEST—this massive viewing night / astronomy festival is on again at Curtin University on Saturday the 16th of March. It is a great free family friendly event suited to kids (and big kids). For the first time, there will be a telescope give away for people who...
by ASWA Admin | Nov 20, 2018 | Astrocamp
Last weekend ASWA Astrocamp (our bi-annual star party) was held at the Tammin Observatory in the Western Australia Wheatbelt and the weather forecast was scary. On Friday night we had a major storm in the northern sky and scopes were packed away. On Saturday,...
