ASSA Radio Astronomy Group

Sunday 12 February 3:00pm
Does your telescope need a tune-up? For expert adjustments, bring it to the telescope clinic at The Heights.

Saturday 25 February, 8:30pm
See the giant planet Jupiter and the Moon through a telescope (weather permitting). A slide show, sausage sizzle and refreshments will be available throughout the evening. Admission is only $10 for adults and $2 for children. There is no need to book - just turn up on the night at pay at the gate.

A Change of Direction. As you all know the news is automated and available on the "DAILY-SPACE-NEWS" tab on this site. reprinting the news on the front page became an burden that I had to drop. It in fact saw the Echoes of Apollo pages without any updates for a few months. That will now change, but let me tell you about what has been happening over the last few months and you may get a feel for the extent of my workload. [...]

String Theory Opinion - by Robert Brand. Today on my Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/Echoes.Of.Apollo a few readers joked about various unification theories including string theory, spaghetti theory and variety theory and more. I wrote a more serious response that I have added below: [...]

We have a commitment from Dr. Namir E. Kassim as our keynote speaker for the annual conference to be held June 24 to 27. Dr. Kassim is the Head, Radio Astrophysics and Sensing Section LWA Project Scientist Naval Research Laboratory in Washington. He will present a talk on low frequency radio astronomy. His work on the Long Wavelength Array (LWA) should be very interesting.

Registration and more information about the meeting can be found at http://www.radio-astronomy.org/?q=node/181

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The annual SARA meeting will be held at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)Green Bank, West Virginia Sunday June 24th to Wednesday June 27, 2012. Contributors are invited to submit abstracts of their proposed talks to the Vice President (vicepres@radio-astronomy.org) on or before March 1st. A draft paper for publication in the Proceedings is needed by April 15th. The final copy is due May 15th. An optional short bio can be included with the abstract. Optional supporting documentation can be submitted by the final copy date but will not be published in the Proceedings.

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The Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers (SARA) announces a regional conference will be held at Stanford University in California March 24 and 25, 2012. Deborah Scherrer of the Stanford Solar Center has offered to be our host for this event since SARA and Stanford are collaborating on the SuperSID project.

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The Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers (SARA) hereby solicits papers for presentation at its 2012 Western Regional Conference, to be held March 24 through March 25, 2012, at Stanford University, California. Papers on radio astronomy hardware, software, education, research strategies, observations and philosophy are welcome.

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27 Partner Organizations with World-class Instruments work together in Observations, Research & Development The European radio astronomy collaboration, RadioNet, is recognized as the European entity to give access to and to exploit a number of excellent facilities in this field of astronomical research. The application for funding its latest version - RadioNet3 - has been successful, and a total of 9.5 million Euro have been granted by the European Commission for the years 2012 to 2015. This not only continues the two preceding European projects, but also takes a leap forward including ALMA, the radio interferometer for submillimetre wavelengths in Chile as well as a number of pathfinder programs for the Square Kilometre Array, SKA.

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By Bill Seymour; Secretary, SARA
The SARA 2011 Southeastern Conference was held at the Tamke-Allan Observatory (TAO), Roane State College in Harriman, TN. SARA member Dr. David Fields, Physics Professor and Observatory Director was our host. He provided a science lecture room in a building adjacent to the telescope domes for the meeting. After a full day of demonstrations and presentations in the classroom, this made it convenient for the attendees to walk outside and participate in optical telescope viewing and watching the Orionids meteor shower on a beautiful moonless night.

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As required by Section 3 of SARA By-Laws, this is the official call for nominations for SARA officers and board members. If you are interested in running for office and would like to know more about the positions, please contact a board member or SARA President Bill Lord (president@radio-astronomy.org). The requirement to be on the board is to attend the board meetings at the annual meeting and to actively participate in board-related activities. If you are unable to attend the annual meetings, then the director at large position may be for you. This position is a full board position only attending the annual meeting is not required.

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Michael Kahnert's lecture to become an "adjungerad professor"

Leif Eriksson, Earth and Space Sciences, will hold his "docent" lecture.

The SKA Organisation has been established at the November 23 meeting of the SKA Founding Board.

Alexey Pavolotsky will hold his docent lecture

Supermassive Binary Black Hole Systems in Active Galaxies - Mar Mezcua Colloquium

TBA - Evelyne Alecian Colloquium