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Janette Brennan
Jun 25, 20210 min read
Outreach to Lindesay for a Winter Solstice celebration
On the 19th June 2021 Ann Cairns and Elizabeth Cocking and I presented an 'in conversation' event for the National Trust Women's...
Dirk Goës
Jun 19, 20212 min read
Winter Solstice
WHAT IS A SOLSTICE ? A solstice is a natural astronomical event during which one of the Earth’s hemispheres is at maximum tilt away from...
Elizabeth Cocking
Jun 19, 20213 min read
Comets, Sol, observations and the latest NASA news
Presented by our Members Monday 5th July 2021 6:30 to 8pm Due to Covid - 19 our scheduled Member's telescope viewing night at Sydney ...
Dirk Goës
Jun 14, 20211 min read
Did you know: Uranus
Did you know: Astronomical tidbits and this months is our Solar System planet Uranus.
Elizabeth Cocking
Jun 9, 20212 min read
Janette Brennan
Jun 2, 20210 min read
In this month: June 2021
IN THIS MONTH 22nd June 1633 The Roman Catholic Inquisition hands down its sentence and finds Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei guilty...
Elizabeth Cocking
Jun 1, 20213 min read
Tell your neighbours: there is a total Lunar Eclipse Wednesday 26 May, totality at 9:18pm
Total Lunar Eclipse 26 May 2021
sydneycityskywatch
May 25, 20214 min read
Did you know? The Moon
This Month . . . . The Moon. Bits and pieces about our nearest celestial neighbour. Because the moon takes almost the same amount of...
Elizabeth Cocking
May 10, 20211 min read
Solar Observations: March 2021
The Sun is an important area of research. The European Space Agency launched the Solar Orbiter Mission which is returning images of the...
Monty Leventhal OAM
Apr 19, 20212 min read
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