2012 schedule

 

13:30-14:15
The Transit of Venus 2012
Terry Cuttle
Oral
14:15-15:00
Lovejoy by Lovejoy
Terry Lovejoy
Oral
14:15-15:00
Analysing a Variable Star – from observations to physical model.
Dr Thomas Richards
Oral
15:00-15:30
Afternoon tea
Break
15:30-16:00
Exploring the Big Bang with the Cosmic Microwave Background
David Parkinson
Oral
15:30-17:00
Supernova Discovery Methods
Peter Marples, Greg Bock, Tamara Davis
Oral
16:00-16:30
A Method for Differential CCD or DSLR Photometry Requiring No Determination of Air Mass or Extinction Coefficients
Roy Axelsen
Oral
16:30-17:00
TW Crucis — Piquing my Interest as a Beginner in CCD Photometry
David J. W. Moriarty
Oral
19:00-22:00
Convention dinner
Social
20:00-20:45
40 Years Behind the Telescope; how a starry-eyed school kid turned into a "real" astronomer
Vince Ford
Oral
09:00-09:30
The Age of Amateur Spectroscopy
Keith Forbes
Oral
09:00-09:45
Fire in the Sky
Ray Johnston and Rick Stevenson
Oral
09:30-10:30
Near Infrared Phase Lag of Mira Variable, R Carinae
Anthony Dutton, Gregorie Bond and Julian West
Talk
09:45-10:30
"Waiting for the Shadow": Countdown to the 2012 Total Eclipse
Joe Cali
Oral
10:30-11:00
Morning tea
Break

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