Past events

A moonlit landscape with a brightly shining moon, stars twinkling in the sky, and a large tree silhouette beside a small building.
19 Jun 2026 | 7 - 9pm

Mount Stromlo Observatory in conjunction with the Canberra Astronomical Society invite you to attend our public observing nights of 2026. Come and see the craters of the moon, planets, and beautiful star clusters and nebulae. Object visibility will vary depending on the night.

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Dr Lucia McCallum.
16 Jun 2026 | 11:01am

I will present Australia’s contribution to international geodetic VLBI and its links to the radio astronomy community. While the core products mainly find their way into enabling sciences such as the world’s most precise coordinate frame, more recent applications of VLBI can be found in upcoming space missions (e.g. ESA’s NovaMoon) or intercontinental time and frequency transfer. Current risks and challenges will also be discussed, such as the rapidly increasing man-made radio emissions in space caused by providers of internet via satellites. Improved protection of VLBI frequencies on a global scale is an urgent need if we want satellite services being able to continue operations. This is where science meets policy and international treaties and I will report about current work on this matter at the national level.

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2 Jun 2026 | 11:30am

On the hunt for supermassive black hole binaries with Pulsar Timing Arrays.

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A moonlit landscape with a brightly shining moon, stars twinkling in the sky, and a large tree silhouette beside a small building.
22 May 2026 | 7 - 9pm

Mount Stromlo Observatory in conjunction with the Canberra Astronomical Society invite you to attend our public observing nights of 2026. Come and see the craters of the moon, planets, and beautiful star clusters and nebulae. Object visibility will vary depending on the night.

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Simon Driver.
19 May 2026 | 11:30am
arash bahramian.
12 May 2026 | 11:30am

Chasing stellar-mass black holes in our Galaxy.

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Joel Ong.
5 May 2026 | 11:30am

Asteroseismic Adventures Around Azimuthal Asymmetry.

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Simon Ellis.
28 Apr 2026 | 11:30am

Beating Nyquist: Compressed Sensing in Astronomical Instrument Design.

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A moonlit landscape with a brightly shining moon, stars twinkling in the sky, and a large tree silhouette beside a small building.
24 Apr 2026 | 7 - 9pm

Mount Stromlo Observatory in conjunction with the Canberra Astronomical Society invite you to attend our public observing nights of 2026. Come and see the craters of the moon, planets, and beautiful star clusters and nebulae. Object visibility will vary depending on the night.

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