When you have received your fee invoice in the mail, you can save time and money by renewing your membership right here on line. Simply complete our Online Membership Renewal Form with your personal details and provide your credit card details (Visa or MasterCard). When you have finished, click the "Submit" button, and your Membership Renewal Form will be submitted electronically to the ASNSW.
Why not share your enjoyment of astronomy by making a donation to the Society? Donations help us keep our fees lower, for the benefit of all members, and also greatly assist with the development of the Society's facilities.
Membership of the ASNSW also entitles you to heavily discounted subscriptions to various Astronomical publications, including:
UNIVERSE - Monthly Journal of the Astronomical Society of New South Wales Inc., renowned world-wide as being one of the highest quality publications produced by an Astronomical Society. Posted free to all current members each month, keeping members in touch with what is happening in the world of Astronomy, as well as providing its readers with a number of personal accounts of observing sessions and Astronomical discoveries.
Astronomy 2008 - Australia's most popular astronomy year book, packed full of information that is essential to all amateur observers, is available to ASNSW members for the specially discounted price of $19.00 at meetings or $21.50 posted in Australia ($25.00 posted overseas).
Australian Sky & Telescope - Australian version of the long-running monthly Astronomy magazine, with an Australian focus on both professional and Amateur Astronomy. Available to ASNSW Members at the discounted rate of just $40 per 12 month subscription (6 issues), which is a 15% saving off the newsstand price.
Sky & Telescope - A long-running monthly Astronomy magazine produced in the USA, with a combination of articles focussed on both professional and Amateur Astronomy. Available to ASNSW Members at the heavily discounted rate of just $US49.95 per 12 month subscription.
The purpose of the Special Meeting is to vote on the Committee's nomination of Chris Ross for Life Membership.
Members are encouraged to attend.
The ASNSW's Observing Facilities are available for all ASNSW Members to use when an accredited person is on site to supervise. As you can appreciate, guidelines need to be put into place to manage these wonderful assets.
These guidelines have recently been updated and as a result, all members currently accredited to use the ASNSW's Observing facilities will need to re-apply for accreditation, as many of the facilitieds have been upgraded and have new equipment installed requiring additional training.
Each quarter, Links˛Go samples millions of web pages to determine which pages are most heavily cited by web pages, such as the ASNSW Web Site. The most popular pages are downloaded and automatically categorized by topic. At most, 50 of the pages related to a topic are selected as "Key Resources". Out of 50 pages selected as Key Resources for the Australian Astronomy topic, the ASNSW Web Site ranked 10th.
The Links˛Go Key Resource award differs from other awards in two important ways. Firstly, it is objective. Most awards rely on hand selection by one or more "experts", many of whom have only looked at tens or hundreds of thousands of pages in bestowing their awards. Selection for those awards means no more than the fact that one person, somewhere, noticed your page and liked it enough to select it. The Key Resource Award, on the other hand, is based on an analysis of millions of web pages. Any group or organization who conducts a similar analysis will arrive at similar conclusions. When Links˛Go says your page is a Key Resource, we mean that your page is one of the most relevant pages related to a particular topic on the web today, using an objective statistical measure applied to an extremely large data set.
Secondly, the Key Resource award is exclusive. We get literally hundreds of people requesting that their page be added to one or more topics per week. All of these requests are denied. The only way to get listed as a Key Resource is to achieve enough popularity for our analysis to select your pages automatically. We do not accept fees, offers of link exchanges, free advertising, or bartered livestock as inducements to add new sites to our lists. Fewer than one page in one thousand will ever be selected as a Key Resource.
Pages like the ASNSW Web Site, which rank near the top of the list of Key Resources will almost certainly remain Key Resources on subsequent rebuilds of the index.
The ASNSW Web Site has also been awarded the prestigious StudyWeb™ Academic Excellence Award. On 28th October, 1999, this Web Site was selected as a featured site in StudyWeb™ as one of the best educational resources on the Web, according to their researchers, and was given the Award.
StudyWeb is one of the Internet's premier sites for educational resources for students and teachers. Since 1996, their expert reviewers have scoured the Internet to select only the finest sites to be included in the StudyWeb™ listing of educational links. Inclusion in StudyWeb™ will increase a Web Site's exposure and attract new visitors to the site. StudyWeb™ reviews have been featured on Webcrawler Select, The Lycos Top 5%, Education World and many others, and StudyWeb™ updates are provided to media and educational resources around the world.