Let's celebrate 2025!

Read about great solar prominences, binary star evolution, the future of the AAT and more.

Andrew's setup at the Frogmore Astro Camp. Photo by Andrew Wood. By Andrew Wood For visual observing especially, light pollution greatly diminishes the experience of observing deep sky objects – star clusters, nebulae and galaxies. Even with the sophisticated imaging equipment available today that enables those who like to take images of these objects in less-than-ideal skies, a dark sky will make the images even better. Finding a dark place, unless you live on a rural prop

Listening to Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell speak gave us direct personal insight into how she made her discovery of pulsars and she generously expanded on this in her response to questions from the audience.

The following describes objects in our night sky for October and is especially written for beginning observers. Moon Phases The Deep Sky...

This illustrated talk about variable star observing is at Sydney Observatory on Monday 3 November, 2025.

Sydney City Skywatcher members observed the total lunar eclipse on 8 Sept '25.

AGM and Member's presentation night. Six fascinating topics!

A historic photo of the Anglo Australian Telescope. The dome is 50 metres high and 36 metres in diameter ( Credit : David Malin, Australian Astronomical Observatory) By Dirk Goës On the 8th of July 2025 at the Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) of the Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA) Associate Professor Christian Wolf, the new director of Siding Spring Observatory (SSO) outlined the future for the venerable Anglo Australian Telescope (AAT). The AAT along with its exquis

The following describes objects in our night sky for September and is especially written for beginning observers. Astronomy from the city...