Events

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. ...

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. ...

Details of this event to follow. ...

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. ...

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? ...