Our second annual workshop will be held on Wednesday 18 November 2025, 2:00 to 4:30pm AEDT (UTC+11). It is open to members and non-members of the ASA and the Chapter and is free of charge, all you have to do is register.

2pm - 2:10 Introduction by Nick Lomb

2:10 - 2:30 Marcus Chown: Black hole discoverer whose name has vanished down a metaphorical black hole

2:35 - 2:50 Kerrie Dougherty: Up, Up and Away: early balloon-borne and sounding rocket astronomy in Australia

2:55 - 3:10 Jack Foster: How to use a transit telescope.

3:15 - 3:30 Richard de Grijs: How Australians Imagined Mars, 1875–1899

3:35 - 3:50 Harry Wendt: The Discovery of Radio Emission from Flare Stars

3:55 - 4:10 Fred Watson: Grubb Down-Under: A 160-year Scientific Odyssey

4:10 - 4:30 Discussion and closing remarks.

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