Off to NACAA March 20, 2008
Posted by astroed in Astronomy, Education.trackback
Every two years the amateur astronomy community in Australia gets together for NACAA – the National Australian Convention of Amateur Astronomers. Being dedicated, passionate and perhaps fanatical observers they don’t want to miss good viewing time so the conference always falls on the Easter weekend. I’ve never been to one before but I’m going this time to meet old friends, make new ones, learn and give a couple of presentations.
My talk is about the PULSE@Parkes project run by CSIRO ATNF that gives high school students the opportunity to control the Parkes radio telescope remotely over the Internet to observe pulsars. I’ll post more about this project shortly. My other session is as part of the IYA2009 National Working Group for Australia. We will be running a forum on how amateur astronomers can get involved in IYA2009. Hopefully there will be lots of discussion and some great ideas generated. I’m looking forward to seeing the energy of the amateur community.
There are lots of interesting talks and workshops at NACAA. Have a look at the program here.
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