The AAQ holds its Annual General Meeting in February and ten ordinary general meetings in the months March to December. For information about these meetings, speakers and other events of interest to members and visitors, see the list below.
You can download a PDF of the current year’s meeting locations, times and main presentation topic here.
Monthly List
April 2020
Celestial Navigation by Terry Cuttle
No astronomer should truly be lost if he (she) can see the night sky and has an understanding of how to interpret it. But, in the age of GPS, the art and science of celestial navigation is at risk of being lost. Terry will describe the development of celestial navigation from the techniques used by early voyagers to cross vast open oceans, through the development of celestial navigation techniques from the 1400’s to the 1800’s and through to the current day. ...
May 2020
The Impact of Supermassive Blackholes on their Host Galaxies by Michael Cowley
Located at the centre of most massive galaxies, supermassive black holes are objects of extreme density up to billions of times more massive than our Sun. When matter falls into these monster black holes, huge amounts of energy is released, evidence of which is observed on scales far beyond the galaxy itself. ...
June 2020
Globular Clusters – How to see them in a different light by David Allan
Details of this event to follow. ...
July 2020
Astrophotography competition hosted by Rick Stevenson & Tony Dutton
The annual AAQ Astrophotography Competition will be held as the main item of the July OGM on the 11th July 2020. Rules and guidelines for submission are available in the May 2020 Newsletter. ...
September 2020
The Hubble Crisis and how it might be resolved by Aaron Glanville
In this talk, Aaron discuss some of the possible solutions proposed to bridge the gap between two independent measurements of Hubble's constant. In particular, he focus on one of the simplest possible explanations - what if simple observational error caused our standard ruler to be out of alignment? ...
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