Past events

Join us for a behind-the-scenes walking tour of Mt Stromlo Observatory as part of the ACT Heritage Festival

A coherent revolution: interferometry and photonics for precision astrophysics.

Mount Stromlo Observatory in conjunction with the Canberra Astronomical Society invite you to attend our public observing nights of 2054. Come and see the craters of the moon, planets, and beautiful star clusters and nebulae. Object visibility will vary depending on the night.

Astrochemistry as a diagnostic of evolved stars in binary systems.

Professor Michele Trenti from the University of Melbourne will be giving the RSAA Colloquium on "The SpIRIT mission: An Australian Space Telescope contributing to multi-messenger astrophysics."

Professor Mark Wardle from Macquarie University will be giving the RSAA Colloquium on 11 March on "Infrared and X-ray flaring of the Galactic Centre supermassive black hole Sgr A*"