2025 Annual workshop

Our annual workshop will be held on Wednesday 19 November 2025, 2pm to 5:15pm AEDT (UTC+11). It is open to members and non-members of the ASA and the Chapter and is free of charge.

It is essential to register to attend on-line, and/or to receive recordings after the event. Select this button:

Once you register you will receive a confirmation and a Zoom link will be provided the day before the workshop. All who register will receive information about how to download the recorded talks after the event.

PROGRAM

2pm Introduction and acknowledgement of country (Nick Lomb)

2:10 Sir Thomas Brisbane’s Parramatta Observatory Revisited, 1821–1825 (Mark Rigby and Tom Harradine)

2:35 Making them visible: women in astronomy in Australia (Toner Stevenson)

3:00 How Australian Astronomers Cooked Up a High-Fibre Diet (Fred Watson)

3:25 Grote Reber in Tasmania (Martin George)

3:50 Indigenous astronomy: history, challenges and what we have learned (Duane Hamacher)

4:15 Observing the “Man-made Moons”: the Role of Australian Amateur Astronomers in Operation Moonwatch (Kerrie Dougherty)

4:40 Narrabri Stellar Intensity Interferometer (Stephanie Rossini-Bryson)

5pm Closing remarks

The full program with abstracts and bios is available here:

Notes: Each presentation is approximately 20 minutes in length and there will be a few minutes after each presentation for questions and discussion.