13 February 1633 Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome to face charges of heresy for advocating the Copernican theory, which...

Our first club meeting is on Monday 4 February at 6:30pm, with a presentation by Lesa Moore about astrobiology. The Oldest Star: One of...

Happy New Year! 24th January 1986 Voyager 2 encounters Uranus. At its closest the spacecraft came to within 81,500 kilometres of Uranus's...

This month we are featuring Space Probes – Crashes, Lego and the missing hyphen The Soviet probe Luna 15 crashed into the surface of the...

6th December 1882 The Transit of Venus, the second and last transit of Venus of the 19th century, the first having taken place eight...

For the month of October 2018 all Sunspot activity once again on the Sun remained extremely low. A total of 16 Observations were made for...

Often called “The Seven Sisters” this group of stars has a strong connection to Aboriginal Peoples in many parts of Australia and was the...

28 November 1967 The first pulsar is discovered by Jocelyn Bell (Image above taken 19 July 2018). Working as a research student at...

Each day, weather permitting, Monty Leventhal observes the Sun, our closest star, and records activity such as solar prominences, sun...