Past Guest Speakers

The ASNSW and its members are very grateful to all the wonderful guest speakers who have attended our meetings and star parties. Many of them are recognised below. Click on a year link to jump to that year, or use Ctrl+F to search for the name of someone specific.

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| 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |

2003
07/02/2003	Reg Wilson, FIES, IDA	Dark Sky Issues
07/03/2003	Prof Ray Norris, ATNF	The Void at the End of the Universe
14/03/2003	Andrew James, ASNSW	Stellar Ballroom Dancing
29/03/2003 SPSP	Gary Kopff, Wildcard Innovations & ASNSW	SPSP11 Talk: The Argo Navis Digital Telescope Computer
29/03/2003 SPSP	Richard Heggie, ASNSW	SPSP11 Talk: Digital Cameras Are Cool (But Not Cooled!)
29/03/2003 SPSP	Andrew Murrell, ASNSW	SPSP11 Talk: Deep-Sky Observing at SPSP
29/03/2003 SPSP	Monte Wilson, ASNSW	SPSP11 Talk: Wide-Field Astro Photography Using Conventional Film
29/03/2003 SPSP	David Reneke, Port Macquarie Observatory	SPSP11 Talk: Come With Us On An Exciting Visual Tour Of The Universe
11/04/2003	Michael Burton, University of NSW	Gemini, Antarctica and Lofar, Three Astronomical Opportunities for Australia
16/05/2003	Dr Quentin Parker, Macquarie University	The AAO/UKST H-alpha Survey and a Rich New Vein of Planetary Nebulae
13/06/2003	Prof Brian Boyle, Director, AAO	Mega Spectroscopic Surveys: The Chaos Principle
14/07/2003	Melissa Hulbert, SASI	Snapshots of the Cosmos
11/07/2003	Don Whiteman, ASNSW	Choosing Accessories for Telescopes
01/08/2003	Dr Alon Retter	The Contribution of Amateur Astronomers to the Research of Novae
16/08/2003	Bowen Mountain Sub-comittee	Becoming Acquainted with Crago Observatory
12/09/2003	Serjit Wadwha Singh, ASNSW	Astronomy on a Rainy Night
10/10/2003	Dr Fred Watson, Astronomer-in-charge, AAO/UKST	New Rave Survey
28/11/2003	Harry Roberts, ASNSW	The Star Next Door, the Active Sun in Hydrogen-Alpha
Back to top 2004
06/02/2004	Richard Heggie, ASNSW	Digital Astroimaging
27/02/2004	David Frew, Macquarie University	Eta Carinae: Four Centuries of Observation
19/03/2004 SPSP	Les Dalrymple, SASI, Editor Sky&Space Magazine	SPSP12 Talk: Showpiece Objects for the Star Party
20/03/2004 SPSP	John O'Byrne, University of Sydney	SPSP12 Talk: Adaptive Optics (finally) Coming of Age
20/03/2004 SPSP	Dr Wayne Orchiston – ATNF, AAO	SPSP12 Talk: Sentinels Of Our Southern Skies
02/04/2004	Andrew James, ASNSW	History of Southern Astronomical Catalogues
23/04/2004	John Webb, University of NSW	The Young Universe
07/05/2004	Mike Kerr, ASNSW	Magnifying the Universe
28/05/2004	Nick Lomb, Sydney University	The Transit of Venus
04/06/2004	Michael Burton, University of NSW	The Solar System and Robotic Spacecraft
02/07/2004	Lesa Moore, ASNSW	Light and the Electromagnetic Spectrum
23/07/2004	Stuart Ryder, AAO	Supernovae and Me
27/08/2004	Don Whiteman, ASNSW	Making Modern Telescopes
01/10/2004	Scott Mellish, ASNSW	Realm of the Averted Imagination: Abell Cluster Galaxies of the South Celestial Pole from -80 to -90 degrees
22/10/2004	Andrew James, ASNSW	James Dunlop and his Southern Double Star Catalogue
19/11/2004	Steve Russell, ASNSW	What's Happening in Amateur Telescope Making?
26/11/2004	Glenn Dawes, Quasar Publishing, ASNSW	The Making of the Book
Back to top 2005
18/02/2005	Ben Pawlutschenko, ASNSW	Solar Effects
25/02/2005	Dr Wayne Orchiston, ATNF	The History of Astronomy in Australia
12/03/2005 SPSP	Alan Dyer - Contributing Editor, Sky & Telescope Magazine	SPSP13 Talk: Northern Sky Sights: Stars Of The Northern Hemisphere
12/03/2005 SPSP	Chris Venter - Astronomical Society of Victoria	SPSP13 Talk: Astrophotography and Digital Astroimaging in The ASV
18/03/2005	John Dobson
15/04/2005	Joe Cauchi, ASNSW	Astrophotography: A Personal Perspective
22/04/2005	Richard Jaworski, ASNSW	Observing and Measuring Visual Binary Stars
13/05/2005	David Malin, AAO and Royal Melbourne Inst Technology	Making Sense of Heaven and Earth
20/05/2005	Harry Roberts, ASNSW	The Amateurs' Moon in the Twenty-First Century
17/06/2005	Richard Heggie, ASNSW	Digital Astroimaging - What has changed in a Year?
24/06/2005	Prof John Storey, UNSW	Antarctic Astronomy
15/07/2005	Prof Fred Watson, AAO	Making the most of LAMOST
22/07/2005	Peter Elston, ASNSW	Solar Eclipse
09/09/2005	Andrew James, ASNSW	Open Clusters
16/09/2005	Don Whiteman, ASNSW
07/10/2005	Dr Jessica Chapman, ATNF	The Late Stages of Evolution
14/10/2005	Dr Matthew Colless, Director of the AAO	Einstein's Greatest Blunder? The Accelerating Universe and the Cosmological Constant
11/11/2005	Dr Naomi McClure-Griffiths, ATNF	Tales of Hydrogen in the Milky Way
Back to top 2006
03/02/2006	Dr Neal Newman, NASA's Representative in Australia	NASA's Vision for Space Exploration
10/02/2006	Scott Mellish, ASNSW	Wintering at Wiruna
10/03/2006	Scott Croom, AAO	De-Twinkling Quasars: High Resolution Imaging using Adaptive Optics
17/03/2006	Richard Jaworski, ASNSW	The Earl of Rosse and the Leviathan of Parsontown
07/04/2006	Dr Joss Hawthorn, AAO	Expanded Galaxies
05/05/2006	Peter Mellander, ASNSW and Anssen Technologies	Astroimaging with the ST 11000
12/05/2006	Dr Warwick Couch, University of NSW	Extremely Large Telescopes (the Next Generation)
02/06/2006	Steve Russell, ASNSW	Eclipse on the Nile ... or Thereabouts
07/07/2006	Dave Gault, ASNSW	What it's like to be an Umbra-Holic
28/07/2006	Dr William J Busler, Memphis Astonomical Society, Professor of Chemistry, Christian Brothers University, Memphis, Tennessee, USA	The Analemma
04/08/2006	Paul Hatchman, ASNSW	A Brief History of Quasars
01/09/2006	Mike Kerr, ASNSW	Super Star Clusters
08/09/2006	Prof Bill Coles, CITIT, California	Solar Winds
06/10/2006	Andrew James, ASNSW	The Distant Past and Future of the Night Sky
27/10/2006	Dr Roger Nettlefield, CSIRO Centre for Precision Optics	Precision Optics and how they differ from Amateur Equipment
03/11/2006	Dr Andrea Lommen, Franklin and Marshall College	Millisecond Pulsars: Using Pulsars to detect Gravitational Radiation
24/11/2006	Harry Roberts, ASNSW	Solar Minimum: The End of Cycle 23
Back to top 2007
02/02/2007	Dave Gault, ASNSW	Lunar Grazes, Beepers and Time
23/02/2007	Dr Charley Lineweaver, ANU	The Cosmic Microwave Background, Exoplanets and the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics
02/03/2007	Mike Salway, IceInSpace	Planetary Imaging and Image Processing
23/03/2007	Assoc Prof Geraint Lewis, University of Sydney	The Runaway Universe: The Influence of Dark Energy
13/04/2007 SPSP	Alan Dyer, Contributing Editor, Sky & Telescope Magazine	SPSP15 Talk: The Amazing Sky
13/04/2007 SPSP	Donna Burton, ANU	SPSP15 Talk: Having a Schmidt of a Time - Siding Spring Observatory
13/04/2007 SPSP	Professor Joss Hawthorn, Head of Instrument Science, AAO	SPSP15 Talk: Our Astonishing Universe
20/04/2007	Balthasar Indermuehle	Antarctic Astronomy
04/05/2007	László Kiss	Exploding Stars
25/05/2007	Prof Ray Norris, ATNF	The Astronomy of Indigenous Australians
01/06/2007	Geoff Smith, ASNSW	Experiences in Astroimaging
23/06/2007	Crago Subcommittee	Lunar Observing at Crago Observatory
20/07/2007	Don Whiteman, ASNSW
27/07/2007	George Georgevits, University of NSW	Detection of small Kuiper Belt Objects by Stellar Occultation
24/08/2007	Richard Jaworski, ASNSW Double Star Section Leader	Double Star Delights: Some of the best visual double stars for the amateur to observe
14/09/2007	Kenji Bekki, UNSW	Merging Galaxies: Creation from Destruction
21/09/2007	Andrew Murrell, ASNSW	ASNSW Public Astronomy Open Night at Epping
19/10/2007	Serge Wadhwa, ASNSW Astrophysics Section	Armchair Astrophysics
26/10/2007	Scott Mellish, ASNSW Observations Officer	Hickson Galaxy Groups
16/11/2007	Zdenka Kuncic, USyd	How to See Black Holes
23/11/2007	Monte Wilson, ASNSW Astroimaging Section Leader	ASNSW's Astroimaging Section
Back to top 2008
22/02/2008	Dr Andrew Hopkins, University of Sydney	Star Formation
14/03/2008	Dr David Champion, ATNF/CSIRO	Pulsars and Gravitational Waves
04/04/2008 SPSP	Gary Kopff, Wildcard Innovations, Developer of Argo Navis	SPSP16 Talk: How Does Your Telescope Point?
04/04/2008 SPSP	Monte Wilson and Mike Berthon-Jones, ASNSW	SPSP16 Talk: How to get started and avoid the Pitfalls of Astroimaging
05/04/2008 SPSP	Robert H McNaught	SPSP16 Talk: Southern Hemisphere Meteor Activity
11/04/2008	Harry Roberts, ASNSW	H-alpha and Magnetic Fields at the Sun's North Pole
11/04/2008	Chris Ross, ASNSW	A Slide Show on Flora and Fauna at Wiruna
18/04/2008	Dr Dave DeBoer, ATNF	Great Observatories: The SKA and Australia's Pathfinder
16/05/2008	Peter Gillingham	The Echidna Instrument that the AAO has developed for the Subaru Telescope
13/06/2008	Scott Croom, ARC QEII Fellow at the School of Physics, Sydney University	Dark Energy and a New Project to Measure It: The WIGGLEZ Project on the Anglo-Australian Telescope
20/06/2008	Joe Cauchi, ASNSW	Recent Astroimages
11/07/2008	Andrew James, ASNSW	The History and Observation of Southern Planetaries
18/07/2008	Simon Ellis, AAO, Sydney University	The Evolution of Galaxy Clusters
08/08/2008	Dr Stuart Ryder, Australian Gemini Office	The Gemini Project
12/09/2008	Dr Simon O'Toole, AAO	On the Shoulders of Giants: Using White Dwarfs to Understand How Stars Lose Mass
10/10/2008	Dr Ross Pogson, Australian Museum	Extra-Terrestrial Rocks and Minerals
17/10/2008	Scott Mellish, ASNSW	Much Ado About Nothing: Telescope Challenges for Visual Observers
14/11/2008	Greg Priestley, ASNSW	How NOT to Watch the Launch of the Space Shuttle and Other Lessons Learned
Back to top 2009
06/02/2009	Dr Craig O'Neill, Dept Earth & Planetary Science	Habitable Planets
13/02/2009	Don Whiteman, ASNSW	Eyepieces - Past and Present
06/03/2009	Dr David Malin, AAO, RMIT University	Galileo's Legacy
13/03/2009	Stephen Russell, ASNSW	Eclipse 2008: Pictures from Jiayuguan
03/04/2009	Jeff Stanger, ASNSW, Sydney Girls High School	Astronomy Outreach IYA2009: Activities and Resources
01/05/2009	Prof Bryan Gaensler, Sydney University	Magnets in the Sky
08/05/2009	Ross Pogson, Australian Museum in Sydney	Sundials
22/05/2009 SPSP	Professor Fred Watson, Astronomer-In-Charge, AAO	SPSP17 Talk: Space - Tourism's Final Frontier
22/05/2009 SPSP	Geoff Smith, ASNSW	SPSP17 Talk: Astroimaging - What's is all about and how can I get into it?
23/05/2009 SPSP	Dr Charles Lineweaver, Senior Fellow, Planetary Science Institute and Research School of Earth Sciences, ANU	SPSP17 Talk: Cosmology and Three Big Questions - How did our Universe Begin? How will it End? Are We Alone?
05/06/2009	Scott Mellish, ASNSW	Namely Objects for Namely Observers
03/07/2009	Harry Roberts, ASNSW	The Sun: Behaving Badly? Solar Flaring and its Impacts
10/07/2009	Greg Priestley, ASNSW	Launch of Atlantis on Mission STS-125
07/08/2009	Tobias Westmeier	Galaxies in Interaction
04/09/2009	Alan Garner, ASNSW	Spherical Coordinate Systems
25/09/2009	Dr Dan Zucker, Macquarie University	Building Galaxies on our Doorstep
02/10/2009	Prof Matthew Colless, AAO	What do we know about the Universe?
02/11/2009	Harry Roberts, ASNSW	Lunar Craters and the Late Heavy Bombardment
27/11/2009	Prof Miller Goss, NRAO New Mexico	Under the Radar - The First Woman in Radio Astronomy, Ruby Payne-Scott of Sydney
Back to top 2010
19/02/2010	Don Whiteman and Chris Ross, ASNSW	Computerised Telescope Upgrading and Maintenance
26/02/2010	Rita Holland, ASNSW	The Eye and Human Vision
19/03/2010	Julie Evans, Bureau of Meteorology	Weather forecasting for cloud at Ilford and Bowen Mt
26/03/2010	Mark Wardle, Macquarie University	Sgr A* - A Massive Black Hole at the Galaxy's Centre
30/04/2010	Sam Barden, AAO	HERMES Studies Stellar Populations in the Milky Way
14/05/2010 SPSP	Trevor Barry, ASNSW	SPSP18 Talk: From Broken Hill to the Kecks
15/05/2010 SPSP	Dr Peter Tuthill, University of Sydney	SPSP18 Talk
15/05/2010 SPSP	Dr David DeBoer, Project Director for CSIRO Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP)	SPSP18 Talk
23/07/2010	Assoc Prof Kim-Vy Tran, Texas A&M University	How to form the Most Massive Galaxies in the Universe
30/07/2010	Prof Andrew Connolly, University of Washington	Streaming the Sky
17/09/2010	Prof John Storey, UNSW	Antarctica - What does it offer the Astronomer?
24/09/2010	Dr Richard Ellis, Steele Prof of Astronomy, CalTech	Cosmic Dawn: The Quest for the First Galaxies
15/10/2010	Paul Hatchman, ASNSW	Adventures with Exo-Planets
22/10/2010	Joe Cauchi, ASNSW	Postcards from Wiruna
12/11/2010	Andrew James, ASNSW	The Southern Binary Stars
Back to top 2011
11/02/2011	Dr Ángel R. López-Sánchez	Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies: A Multiwavelength Analysis of Galaxies in the Local Volume
18/02/2011	Dr Jason Spyromilio, ESO	The European Extremely Large Telescope
11/03/2011	Amada Bauer, AAO	A long time ago in galaxies far, far away ...
18/03/2011	Prof Jeremy Mould, University of Melbourne	The Hubble Constant
01/04/2011 SPSP	Professor Matthew Colless, AAO	SPSP19 Talk: Measuring the Universe with Echoes from the Big Bang
01/04/2011 SPSP	Rita Holland, ASNSW	SPSP19 Talk: The Eye and Human Vision
02/04/2011 SPSP	Professor John Webb	SPSP19 Talk: Cosmology and the Laws of Nature - Is the Universe more complicated than we thought?
15/04/2011	Harry Roberts, ASNSW	Secrets of the Sun
13/05/2011	Maritza Lara-Lopez, Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO)	Science from Large Galaxy Surveys
10/06/2011	Paul Hatchman, ASNSW	The Dark Universe
17/06/2011	Gayandhi De Silva, AAO	Galactic Archaeology and HERMES
05/08/2011	Dr Tim Cornwell, ATNF	The Square Kilometre Array - a view from the inside of the project
02/09/2011	Andrew James, ASNSW	Aspects of Astronomy and Navigation in Australia
9/09/2011	Dr Sarah Brough, AAO	Why should you care about massive galaxies
07/10/2011	Geoff Smith, Observations Officer, ASNSW	Observational astronomy from Tycho Brahe to William Herschel
14/10/2011	Dr Simon Ellis, AAO	Making the Sky Dark
11/11/2011	Richard Jaworski, ASNSW	A visit to Lowell Observatory and meteor crater
Back to top 2012
10/02/2012	Dr Mike Ireland, AAO	Unravelling the secrets of planetary birth and death
02/03/2012	Dr Andy Green, AAO	Origins of spiral galaxies: From the Milky Way to living dinosaurs
09/03/2012	Harry Roberts, ASNSW	Dissecting Light: Stellar Spectroscopy
30/03/2012	Dr Chris Stockdale, Marquette University USA	Radio Supernovae: CSI – Circum-Stellar Investigations
20/04/2012 SPSP	Dr Alex Hill	SPSP20 Talk: Star Stuff
20/04/2012 SPSP	Donna Burton, ASNSW/ANU	SPSP20 Talk: Astronomers' Luck
21/04/2012 SPSP	Dr Ángel R. López-Sánchez	SPSP20 Talk: Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies: A multi-wavelength analysis of galaxies in the local volume
27/04/2012	Professor Bon-Chul Koo, Seoul National University	Where are all the supernova remnants?
04/05/2012	Dr Chris Lidman, AAO	The Discovery of the Accelerating Universe
25/05/2012	Tyler Troy, University of Sydney/ASNSW	The Great Cosmic Barbeque: Laboratory Spectroscopy and Extraterrestrial Chemistry
01/06/2012	Joe Cauchi, ASNSW	Astrophotography
06/07/2012	Harry Roberts, ASNSW	James Dunlop – the Draughtsman
27/07/2012	Lesa Moore, ASNSW	Ebbs, Flows and Standing in Moonshadows
03/08/2012	Donna Burton, ASNSW/ANU	Curious and Curiouser - the Case of the Spotty Stars
21/09/2012	Prof Geraint Lewis, University of Sydney	Skeletons in the cupboard: Galaxies are cannibals!
19/10/2012	Andrew James, ASNSW	From Spectrosopic Binaries to Exoplanets
26/10/2012	Dr Francesca Primas, ESO	The Discerning Power of Chemical Abundances: Light and Heavy, Close and Far
16/11/2012	Dr James Allison, University of Sydney	Radio Cosmology: Observing the Invisible Universe
30/11/2012	Keith Bannister, CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science	The Dynamic Universe
Back to top 2013
15/03/2013	Ray Norris	Were Aboriginal Australians the world's first astronomers?
22/03/2013	Andrew James, ASNSW	History of the Far Southern Constellations
19/04/2013	Mark Phillips, Las Campanas Observatory	Type Ia Supernovae as Standard Candles
10/05/2013 SPSP	Harry Roberts, ASNSW	SPSP21 Talk: Amateur Spectroscopy
11/05/2013 SPSP	Dr Geoff Smith, ASNSW	SPSP21 Talk: Observational Astronomy from the Ancients to Herschel
11/05/2013 SPSP	Dr Chris Lidman	SPSP21 Talk
17/05/2013	Dr Michelle Cluver, AAO	Collisions in Crowded Corners of the Cosmos
24/05/2013	Dr Andy Sheinis, AAO	The Galah Galactic Survey
14/06/2013	Dr James Allan, University of Sydney	Large Scale Galactic Surveys
21/06/2013	Donna Burton ANU/ASNSW	100 Years of Astronomy and the tale of 2 Observatories!
19/07/2013	Mike Salway	Nightscape Photography 101
26/07/2013	Dr Valentina D'Orazi, Macquarie University	Understanding the complex nature of globular clusters: a chemical approach
16/08/2013	Dr Lee Spitler, Macquarie University	A Night in the Life of an Astronomer
13/09/2013	Dr Mark Wardle, Macquarie University	The Massive Black Hole at the Centre of the Galaxy: Hear it Roar!
20/09/2013	Dr Mathew Guenette, ANSTO	Nuclear Fusion
11/10/2013	Dr Jonti Horner, UNSW	The Neptune Trojans
08/11/2013	Prof. Elaine Sadler, University of Sydney	Black Holes and Galaxy Evolution
Back to top 2014
14/02/2014	Dr Giovanni Carraro, ESO	The Spiral Structure of the Milky Way
17/03/2014	Dr Ignacio Ferreras, University College London	How do massive galaxies form?
04/04/2014	Dr Simon Ellis, AAO	Antimatter in Astrophysics
11/04/2014	Joe Cauchi, ASNSW	Joe's Astrophotos
02/05/2014	Andrew James, ASNSW Deep Sky Scetion	The Observations of James Dunlop
09/05/2014	Dr. Maria Cunningham, UNSW	Life in the Universe
23/05/2014 SPSP	Francis Bennet	SPSP 22 Talk: Adaptive optics on the GMT and for space environment management
24/05/2014 SPSP	Penny King, ANU	SPSP 22 Talk: Exploring Mars with the Curiosity Rover
06/06/2014	Dr Dennis Stello, University of Sydney	How the music of the stars can reveal the dance of the planets
13/06/2014	Kim Bott, UNSW	Finding Solaris: How to know a planet will kill you before you get there
04/07/2014	Dr Luke Barnes, University of Sydney	What Happened at the Big Bang?
11/07/2014	Professor Chris Impey - University of Arizona	Co-Evolution of Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes
01/08/2014	Professor Warrick Couch, AAO	ELTs: The Next Generation of Extremely Large Optical/Infrared Telescopes
12/09/2014	Mike Berthon-Jones, ASNSW	Amateur narrowband astrophotography with a medium-large instrument
10/10/2014	Dr Kyler Khuen, AAO	Starbugs: A New Parallel-Positioning Technology for Multi-Fibre Astronomical Instruments
31/10/2014	Dr Brian Boyle, CSIRO SKA Director	The SKA
Back to top 2015
06/02/2015	Dr Andrew Hopkins, AAO	GAMA and Taipan Surveys
27/02/2015	Dr Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer	Search for Water on Extra Solar Planets by Using Polarized Light
06/03/2015	Michael Cowley, Macquarie University	A multi-wavelength study of the impact of AGN on their host galaxies
27/03/2015	Dr Jonathon Marshall, UNSW	Debris Disks
10/04/2015	Greg Priestley, ASNSW	Astronomical Timelapse:My Perspective
15/05/2015 SPSP	Lesa Moore, ASNSW, ASA, Princess Cruises	SPSP23 Talk: Heroes of Knowledge
16/05/2015 SPSP	Lisa Kewley, RSAA (ANU)	SPSP23 Talk: The History of Oxygen
22/05/2015	Dr Daniela Calzetti, University of Massachusetts	The Universe from Space
26/06/2015	Dr Amanda Bauer	Crash of the Titans: When Galaxies Collide
03/07/2015	Andrew James, ASNSW	Three Astronomical Talks for the price of one
24/07/2015	Dr Richard McDermid, Macquarie University/AAO	What's the Matter with Massive Galaxies?
31/07/2015	Dr Ángel R. López-Sánchez , AAO	Light and Astrophysics
18/09/2015	Dr Orsola DeMarco, Macquarie University	Getting ready for the changing sky
25/09/2015	Tash McFadden, Brendan Reinhart and Roy Truelove, Macquarie University	Astronomers in the Making
16/10/2015	Dr Megan Johnson, ATNF	What is A Galaxy?
23/10/2015	Dr James Allison, CSIRO, Astronomy and Space Science	Rocking the cradle - Black holes and young radio galaxies with the SKA
Back to top 2016
26/02/2016	Dr Ignacio Ferreras, University College London	The End of the Universe
18/03/2016	Dr C Renee James, Sam Houston State University	Science Unshackled (Or 'Why You Should Give a Rat's @$& About Pure Science Research
15/04/2016	Dr Andy Green, AAO	Behind the scenes at the AAT: A new mirror every year and other shenanigans
22/04/2016	Lesa Moore, ASNSW, ASA, Princess Cruises	Space Junk, Rocks from Space and Things that Kill our Cows
17/06/2016	Dr Gayandhi De Silva, AAO	How Australian astronomers are leading the way in Galactic Archeology
06/05/2016 SPSP	Dr C Renee James, Sam Houston State University	SPSP24 Talk: Science Unshackled (Or 'Why You Should Give a Rat's @$& About Pure Science Research
07/05/2016 SPSP	Dr Richard McDermid, Macquarie University and AAO	SPSP24 Talk: Lighting the Dark: Measuring Supermassive Black Holes with Lasers
08/07/2016	Dr Alistair Edge, Durham University	Astronomical Surveys: The perspective of three lifetimes
15/07/2016	Dr Tayyaba Zafar	Cold Dust Forming Assemblies of Hot Stars and Galaxies
12/08/2016	Dr Sarah Brough, AAO	The Most Massive Galaxies in 3D
09/09/2016	Dr Li Shao CSIRO/ATNF	Towards a Complete Census of Active Galactic Nuclei
16/09/2016	Dr Krzysztof Bolejko, University of Sydney	The Expansion of the Universe
07/10/2016	Don Whiteman, ASNSW	How well do you know the constellations?
14/10/2016	Andrew James, ASNSW	The Nature and Legacy of the Paramatta Star Catalogue
04/11/2016	Dr. Fred Watson, AAO	The Noteworthy Astronomer of Windsor
11/11/2016	Dr Daniel Huber, University of Sydney	The Space Photometry Revolution of Asteroseismology and Exoplanets
Back to top 2017
03/02/2017	Lesa Moore, ASNSW	Stellar Spectra
10/02/2017	Andrew James, ASNSW Deep Sky Section Leader	The Planet Mercury
10/03/2017	Kerrie Dougherty, Powerhouse Museum	Woomera and WRESAT: How Australia joined the “Space Club”
07/04/2017	Professor Denis Leahy, University of Calgary	Stellar explosions and their remnants
05/05/2017	Professor Annette Ferguson, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh	Cannibals and Ghosts: A Look at the Tumultuous Lives of Large Galaxies
12/05/2017	Andrew James, ASNSW Deep Sky Section Leader	Rolling in the Deep
24/05/2017 SPSP	Dave Gault, Occultation Specialist	SPSP25 Talk: Team Occultation Needs You!
25/05/2017 SPSP	Dr David Malin, Astrophotographer	SPSP25 Talk: Astronomical Imaging from the Ice Age
02/06/2017	Dr Cormac Purcell, Macquarie University	Magnetism: from the Earth to the Cosmos
07/07/2017	Dr Ángel R. López-Sánchez , AAO	Surveying the Southern Sky with the Anglo-Australian Telescope
28/07/2017	Dr Hugh Jones, University of Hertfordshire	Extrasolar Planets from a Rainy Island
04/08/2017	Dr Caroline Foster, AAO/Sydney University	A new look at a 90 years old problem: the 3D shape of galaxies
25/08/2017	Dr Jeffrey Simpson, AAO	Siriously, a cluster hidden by the brightest star in the sky
08/09/2017	Dr Devika Kamath, RSAAA (MQ/AAO)	Using Stellar Fossils to Investigate the Origin of Elements in the Universe
Back to top 2018
23/02/2018	Melissa Hulbert, Sydney Observatory	When Sun, Moon and Earth Align
02/03/2018	Professor Elizabeth Stanley, University of Warwick	Exploring the Properties of star forming galaxies with observations and models
23/03/2018	Andrew James, ASNSW	Three talks for the price of one
20/04/2018	Chengyuan Li, Macquarie University	Blue straggler stars: stars that really shouldn't be there
11/05/2018 SPSP	Trent McDougall, Canberra Astronomical Society	SPSP26 talk: Makers in the Scientific Community
12/05/2018 SPSP	Melissa Hulbert, Sydney Observatory	SPSP26 talk: When Sun, Moon and Earth Align
18/05/2018	Geoff Smith, ASNSW	Astrophotograpy: The real and the fake
22/06/2018	Marnie Ogg, Fred Watson Tours	Warrumbungles Dark Sky Park
29/06/2018	Lesa Moore, ASNSW	Time and Date - Don't be Late!
14/09/2018	Lee Spitler, MQ, AAO	The Huntsman telescope: a Canon lens array designed for ultra-faint imaging
19/10/2018	Eran Segev, ASNSW, Australian Skeptics	On skepticism, skeptical activism, and the link to astronomy
16/11/2018	Professor Fred Watson AM (Dept Industry, Innovation & Science)	Astronomy at Large
Back to top 2019
15/02/2019	Lesa Moore, ASNSW	Astrobiology - Life on Earth and Beyond
15/03/2019	Toner Stevenson	The Great Star Catalogue: Australia's contribution 1887 - 1964
12/04/2019	Geraint Lewis, USyd	The End of Time: The Future History of the Universe
03/05/2019 SPSP	Kym Haines, ASNSW	SPSP27 talk: Wide-Field Astroimaging for Beginners
03/05/2019 SPSP	Robert Dahni, Cloud Free Night	SPSP27 talk: All About Cloud Free Night
04/05/2019 SPSP	Wilfred Gee, MQ	SPSP27 talk: Extrasolar Planets and PANOPTES
17/05/2019	Mireia Montes Quiles, UNSW	The ghost light that illuminates clusters of galaxies
14/06/2019	Greg Priestley, ASNSW	Timelapse365
19/07/2019	Chris Ross, ASNSW	Remembering Apollo
06/09/2019	Lucyna Chudczer, Astronomy Australia Ltd	Clouds in Alien Skies
11/10/2019	Lesa Moore, ASNSW	Women in Astronomy
08/11/2019	Fred Watson AM, Dept Industry, Innovation and Science	Cosmic Chronicles
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28/02/2020	Kym Haines, ASNSW	Wide-Field Astroimaging for Beginners
25/09/2020	Jesse van de Sande, ARC DECRA Fellow	What do galaxies and shadow puppets have in common? Recording available at: Recordings from Ordinary Meetings
23/10/2020	Ian Kemp, ICRAR, ASNSW	Searching for ripples in the cosmic Niagara Falls: Cataclysmic Variable Stars Recording available at: Recordings from Ordinary Meetings
19/11/2020	Andrew James, ASNSW	Recent Developments in Planetary Nebula Astronomy Recording available at: Recordings from Ordinary Meetings
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28/05/2021	Shalmalee Kapse, PhD Candidate, Macquarie University	How to find the multiple stellar populations in the Magellanic Clouds?
25/06/2021	Ian Kemp, ICRAR, ASNSW	Space Rocks and Chaotic Orbits: & Could Earth have a hidden companion?
23/07/2021	Charles Lineweaver, College of Science, ANU	Do attempts to define life help to find life elsewhere in the universe? What's the difference between a closed universe and a large low density black hole? What's the latest exoplanet data telling us about the existence of Ocean Worlds?
20/08/2021	Professor Mark Krumholz, ANU	Formation of stars and galaxies / physics of the interstellar medium
17/09/2021	Dr Doris Grosse, ANU	Twinkle, twinkle little junk
26/11/2021	Dr Sven Buder, ANU	Galactic Archaeology with the GALAH Survey
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22/04/2022	Dr Ian Kemp, ICRAR, ASNSW	Australia: Radio Active for Years to Come ... The New Dawn of Radio Astronomy
13/05/2022	Serge Wadhwa, ASNSW	Search for Red Nova Progenitors
10/06/2022	Steve Russell, ASNSW, NACAA	The Lands of Ice and Snow
11/11/2022	Fred Watson AM, Dept Industry, Innovation and Science	Threatened skies - astronomy in the era of satellite mega constellations
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31/03/2023	Luke Clements	Benro Polaris mount Recording available at: Recordings from Ordinary Meetings
28/04/2023	Toner Stevenson, Melissa Hulbert and Geoffrey Wyatt	Eclipse Chasers in Australia: the past, present and future Recording available at: Recordings from Ordinary Meetings
19/05/2023	Kym Haines, ASNSW	SPSP29 Talk: A galactic tour
19/05/2023	Greg Priestley, ASNSW	SPSP29 Talk: Timelapse365.com
20/05/2023	Ross Mitchell, ASNSW	SPSP29 Talk: Enhanced ‘In-Camera’ software for Canon DSLRs: features beyond the standard menus
20/05/2023	Geraint Lewis, USyd	SPSP29 Talk: The Cosmic Revolutionary’s Handbook
26/05/2023	Peter Osman, ASNSW	Using Gravity to Find Stars Recording available at: Recordings from Ordinary Meetings
18/08/2023	Andrew James, ASNSW	Divisions and Areas of the Constellations Recording available at: Recordings from Ordinary Meetings
27/10/2023	Fred Watson AM, Dept Industry, Innovation and Science	John Tebbutt's telescope – heritage, legacy and people Recording available at: Recordings from Ordinary Meetings
17/11/2023	Kym Haines, ASNSW	Getting started with astrophotography Recording available at: Recordings from Ordinary Meetings
29/11/2023	Steve Olney, ASNSW	Radio Astronomy Recording available at: Recordings from Ordinary Meetings
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23/02/2024	A/Prof Randall Wayth (ICRAR)	WTH! Wok the Hydrogen: Measurement of Galactic Neutral Hydrogen using Kitchenware - Overview and comments


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2020 - the year of the Pandemic

2021 - another year of the Pandemic.

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2024