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Articles by Members and Constellation of the Month
Topical / Series Articles
- Back To Basics - Lesa Moore - plain-English descriptions for those new to astronomy
- Beyond The NGC - Steve Mencinsky - too faint and fuzzy for the "New General Catalogue"
- Alternate Universe - Lachlan MacDonald & Tony Buckley - tongue-in-cheek version of Universe
- The Magellanic Clouds - Various Authors - includes charts and catalogues
- Observations From Wiruna - Andrew Murrell's object descriptions
- Sky Sketcher's Post Mortem - Scott Mellish's articles accompanied by his painstaking sketches
- NASA's SpacePlace Articles - Technological advances and discoveries from NASA/JPL
- Along The Meridian: Big, Bright and Beautiful - Max Gardner, AM describes what's up month-by-month
Individual Articles
- The 2003 Opposition Of Mars - Lachlan MacDonald
- Ceduna 2002: Outback Eclipse - Lachlan MacDonald
- Transit Of Venus - 8 June, 2004 - Lachlan MacDonald
- Jupiter: A Vast Realm To Explore - By Greg Bryant
- How To Collimate Your Telescope - Adapted from Universe 1993
- Cleaning The Mirror Of Your Telescope - Morvac Optical Coatings
- Transit Of Mercury - 9 November, 2006 - Lachlan MacDonald
- Gordon Patston - Founder of the ASNSW - John Flavin
- 120 Galaxies Per Hour: A Personal Experience - Steve Mencinsky
- Some Quick Calculations with the Hubble Constant - Steve Mencinsky
- Common Unrecognised Factors Affecting Dark Adaption - Dr Surjit Singh Wadhwa
- Armchair Astrophysics - How old is the Universe Today? - Dr Surjit Singh Wadhwa
- Smoking Whilst Observing... Is It Really Worth The High? - Alfred Monkowski, M.D.
Constellation of the Month - articles by Geoff Smith, Observations Officer. Links take logged-in members to the Universe issue in which the most recent article appeared. Constellations without a link don't have corresponding articles (yet).
| Andromeda (And)* | Circinus (Cir) | Lacerta (Lac) | Piscis Austrinus (PsA) |
| Antlia (Ant) | Columba (Col) | Leo (Leo) | Puppis (Pup) |
| Apus (Aps) | Coma Berenices (Com) | Leo Minor (LMi) | Pyxis (Pyx) |
| Aquarius (Aqr) | Corona Australis (CrA) | Lepus (Lep) | Reticulum (Ret) |
| Aquila (Aql)* | Corona Borealis (CrB) | Libra (Lib) | Sagitta (Sge) |
| Ara (Ara) | Corvus (Crv) | Lupus (Lup) | Sagittarius (Sgr) |
| Aries (Ari) | Crater (Crt) | Lynx (Lyn) | Scorpius (Sco) |
| Auriga (Aur) | Crux [The Southern Cross] (Cru) | Lyra (Lyr)* | Sculptor (Scl)* |
| Bootes (Boo)* | Cygnus (Cyg)* | Mensa (Men) | Scutum (Sct) |
| Caelum (Cae) | Delphinus (Del)* | Microscopium (Mic) | Serpens (Ser) |
| Camelopardalis (Cam) | Dorado (Dor) | Monoceros (Mon) | Sextans (Sex) |
| Cancer (Cnc) | Draco (Dra) | Musca (Mus) | Taurus (Tau) |
| Canes Venatici (CVn) | Equuleus (Equ) | Norma (Nor) | Telescopium (Tel) |
| Canis Major (CMa) | Eridanus (Eri) | Octans (Oct)* | Triangulum (Tri) |
| Canis Minor (CMi) | Fornax (For) | Ophiuchus (Oph) | Triangulum Australe (TrA) |
| Capricornus (Cap) | Gemini (Gem) | Orion (Ori) | Tucana (Tuc)* |
| Carina (Car) | Grus (Gru) | Pavo (Pav) | Ursa Major (UMa) |
| Cassiopeia (Cas)* | Hercules (Her)* | Pegasus (Peg)* | Ursa Minor (UMi) too far north |
| Centaurus (Cen) | Horologium (Hor) | Perseus (Per) | Vela (Vel) |
| Cepheus (Cep) too far north | Hydra (Hya) | Phoenix (Phe)* | Virgo (Vir) |
| Cetus (Cet)* | Hydrus (Hyi) | Pictor (Pic) | Volans (Vol) |
| Chamaeleon (Cha) | Indus (Ind) | Pisces (Psc)* | Vulpecula (Vul)* |
| * Refer also: 0h Meridian through Octans, Tucana, Phoenix, Sculptor, Cetus, Pisces, Pegasus, Andromeda, Cassiopeia and Northern Aspects - Boötes, Hercules, Lyra, Aquila, Vulpecula, Cygnus, Delphinus | |||
- Astronomy 20XX by Wallace, Dawes and Northfield (for relevant year)
- NGC/IC webpage http://www.ngcicproject.org/
- Double Stars for small telescopes by Sissy Haas
- Annals of the Deep Sky by Jeff Kanipe and Dennis Webb
- The constellation charts are from https://www.iau.org/public/themes/constellations/ and were produced by the IAU in collaboration with Sky & Telescope magazine. Their use here is permitted under the creative commons licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- Hartung’s Astronomical Objects for Southern Telescopes by David Malin and David Frew
- The Deep Sky Database http://www.virtualcolony.com/sac/
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