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Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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25.01.2022 . Like all stars, our Sun is powered by the fusion of hydrogen into heavier elements. Nuclear fusion is not only what makes stars shine, it is also a primary source of the chemical elements that make the world around us. https://bit.ly/2Vi8Vjh

25.01.2022 The Moon and Mars tonight!! With clear skies tonight, take your family outside tonight to see the Moon and Mars. They will be positioned in the north around 9:30pm. So, grab the family, tell your friends and have a look! Let us know how you go.

24.01.2022 With the annoying little clouds hanging around the other night, ASV Member Anne-Maree McComb packed up her dome and went to bed, but when she woke at 4.30 she decided the now perfectly clear sky shouldn't be wasted so she went out and took a few quick snaps over the dam. Anne-Maree used a Canon 6dmkii Camera, Sigma 20mm lens and took 44 x 10 second exposures before stacking them in a vertical panorama #asvastronomy #astronomicalsocietyofvictoria #ruralastronomy #astronomy #apod #nasa #milkyway

23.01.2022 ' , ' . hina's Tianwen-1 probe has sent back its first image of Mars, the national space agency said, as the mission prepares to touch down on the Red Planet later this year. The spacecraft, launched in July around the same time as a rival US mission, is expected to enter Mars orbit around February 10.... The black-and-white photo released late Friday by the China National Space Administration showed geological features including the Schiaparelli crater and the Valles Marineris, a vast stretch of canyons on the Martian surface. Full article: https://bit.ly/2OmwQy2

23.01.2022 Learn planetary image processing techniques with ASSA member Paul Haese

22.01.2022 , . Astronomers have mapped about a million previously undiscovered galaxies beyond the Milky Way, in the most detailed survey of the southern sky ever carried out using radio waves. https://bit.ly/39yxQHR

20.01.2022 I am sure a few out there can relate to this! Happy Monday

19.01.2022 Buy a ticket to go in to the draw this Saturday night for your chance to win a Sky-Watcher‘s Star Adventurer 2i Motorised Mount. $5 a ticket! Purchase your ticket through the link below! https://bit.ly/3jSPuYc RRP $529... funds raised will be shared between the ASV (All Abilities Astronomy Project) & ASSA. Raffle open to Australian residents only Winners will be notified by email

18.01.2022 A huge, already damaged Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico has completely collapsed after its 900-ton receiver platform fell onto the reflector dish below. https://ab.co/39yYCj9

17.01.2022 What you're seeing in this remarkable image from the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile is something that's never been observed anywhere else: A planetary nebula made up of two closely bound stars orbited by a third outer star. https://bit.ly/2I6ClhH

16.01.2022 The December banner image was taken by ASV Astrophotographer Steve Pattie. Steve took a total of 2.5 hours of integration (1min exposures) with an 8-inch f/4 Newtonian taken through INDI platform.NGC 1360 (The Robins Egg Nebula). NGC 1360 is a planetary nebula in the constellation of Fornax. It was identified as a planetary nebula due to its strong radiation in the OIII bands. Reddish matter, believed to have been ejected from the original star before its final collapse, is visible in images.

15.01.2022 Although the ground beneath our feet feels solid and reassuring (most of the time), nothing in this Universe lasts forever. One day, our Sun will die, ejecting a large proportion of its mass before its core shrinks down into a white dwarf, gradually leaking heat until it's nothing more than a cold, dark, dead lump of rock, a thousand trillion years later. https://bit.ly/39qLAEA

15.01.2022 The Dish, famous for broadcasting the moon landing, will now be known as 'Murriyang', representing the 'skyworld' that it has scanned for more than 50 years. https://ab.co/2IfPx3i

15.01.2022 Here at the Astronomical Society of Victoria, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to learn about and observe the wonders of our universe. That’s why we’ve initiated our Pathways to the Planets project to raise valuable funds for improving the facilities at our dark sky site which will enable access to the site and purpose built astronomical equipment for limited mobility and low vision observers.... To read more about this exciting project or to donate to this incredible cause, please visit: https://www.mycause.com.au/page/230471/asv-pttp

15.01.2022 ' It seems that Earth has been misplaced. According to a new map of the Milky Way galaxy, the Solar System's position isn't where we thought it was. Not only is it closer to the galactic centre - and the supermassive hole therein, Sagittarius A* - it's orbiting at a faster clip. https://bit.ly/33pC14Y

14.01.2022 ' ' For astronomers, astrophysicists, and cosmologists, the ability to spot the first stars that formed in our Universe has always been just beyond reach. On the one hand, there are the limits of our current telescopes and observatories, which can only see so far. https://bit.ly/35b7Dwo

11.01.2022 Learn features of tonight's sky with Perry from ASV, followed by a session of live astronomy with members of ASSA and ASV.

11.01.2022 ! ' . The United Arab Emirates' "Hope" probe on Monday successfully entered Mars' orbit, making history as the Arab world's first interplanetary mission. The probe is designed to reveal the secrets of Martian weather, but the UAE also wants it to serve as an inspiration for the region's youth.... Full article: https://bit.ly/3tTCcRN

11.01.2022 Tickets are still available for our Christmas Star-Be-Cue Raffle!! Buy a ticket to go in to the draw for your chance to win a Celestron 8-inch f/10 CPC 800 with Starbright coatings, Fast Star compatible and a personalised 1 hour training session with ASV President Steve Pattie (At LMDSS or Via Zoom) $5 a ticket! Purchase your ticket through the link below!... https://bit.ly/33c3Iyb Telescope is second hand and fully serviced - Raffle Value $2,000. Prize includes fully insured courier delivery. (To purchase this model brand new would cost $3699) Funds raised will go towards the ASV (All Abilities Astronomy Project) Raffle open to Australian residents only Winner will be notified by email

11.01.2022 . This might be of interest to those who use a smartphone for astrophotography or want to try it (it is written for the Northern Hemisphere) and it is a free download. This lavishly-illustrated book features detailed instructions for how to use your smartphone to take photographs of the night sky and numerous astronomical objects. https://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/

10.01.2022 Learn astrophotography processing techniques with ASV member Andrew Campbell

09.01.2022 Learn about visible features of the sun and see live footage of the sun with ASV member Russell Cockman

08.01.2022 '' , . When you look up at the sky, the region of space around Earth may look as clear as a song, but there's a heck of a lot going on out there that we can't see. In recent years, probes studying radiation trapped by Earth's magnetic field have found something peculiar electrons zipping along at close to light speed. That alone isn't the peculiar part; near-light-speed, or relativistic, elec...trons are well known in the cosmos, boosted by cosmic particle accelerators. The peculiar thing was that occasionally extra fast, ultrarelativistic electrons appear but only during some solar storms, and not others. Full article: https://bit.ly/3rBBM06

08.01.2022 Happy Monday and I am sure some of you can relate today's meme. - .

07.01.2022 Ever wanted to see what the sun looks like up close in detail? Then come and join the ASVs Russell Cockman as he streams our Sun live into your home! (Should the sky be cloudy we will view pre-recorded images). https://www.facebook.com/theasv/posts/3540552899300421

06.01.2022 Test the brains trusts of ASV and ASSA with your astronomy questions.

04.01.2022 . The surface of the Sun is a turbulent dance of gravity, plasma, and magnetic fields. Much like the weather on Earth, its behaviour can seem unpredictable, but there are patterns to be found when you look closely. https://bit.ly/2J3Yr4V

04.01.2022 This penumbral lunar eclipse will be a bit hard to see for Melbourne. As the shadowed part is only a little bit fainter than the rest of the Moon and this one is low on the horizon towards East/North East. To view the eclipse you need look to the western side (left side) of the Moon to discern the darkening and curve of earth's shadow. Moonrise in Melbourne is not till 8:14pm and the maximum eclipse is at 8:42pm. A penumbral eclipse occurs when the Moon travels only through the outer, fainter part of the earth's shadow, or 'penumbra', causing only a slight darkening of the Moon's surface. Perhaps the best time to sight it is around 10pm, when approximately half the moon is in eclipse. So, if you have a clear horizon view, go outside and have a look to see if you can spot it and post images in the comments.

04.01.2022 Enjoy a quiz hosted by ASSA member Fraser Farrell

02.01.2022 Our sun, these images of our sun were taken by Asv Member Ricky Heinrich. Ricky took these images of sunspot AR2781 at midday a few days back. It's wonderful to see our neighbourhood star with increased activity! The images were taken using a Lunt 60MT solar telescope with ZWO ASI174MM camera. #solar #sun #sol #asvastronomy #astronomicalsocietyofvictoria #suburbanastronomy #astronomy #apod #nasa #science

02.01.2022 , . A small, mysterious galaxy 44 million light-years away is finally yielding up its secrets. Revealed last year to have a shockingly low amount of dark matter, the galaxy NGC 1052-DF4 posed a significant challenge to our models of galaxy formation. https://bit.ly/3muNZBQ

01.01.2022 - !!! Tickets to the Messier Star Patry Raffle are still available. Buy a ticket to go in to the draw for your chance to win an iOptron SkyGuider Pro Camera Mount with iPolar (Camera & Tripod not included) Supplied by Sidereal Trading $5 a ticket! Purchase your ticket through the link below!... https://bit.ly/2MzOCNH The SkyGuider Pro iOptron’s next generation camera tracking device! Leading the camera tracker market for nearly four years, iOptron’s SkyGuider Pro pushes closer to perfection. The redesigned SkyGuider Pro mount head is more compact, small enough to fit on your palm, better precision, silent tracking, built-in rechargeable power source, ST-4 guiding port and camera trigger port. The improved precision polar scope maintains a fine engraved reticule, now features adjustable illumination with different brightness levels. Raffle Value $1,159. Prize includes fully insured courier delivery. Funds raised will go towards the ASV (All Abilities Astronomy Project) Raffle open to Australian residents only Winner will be notified by email

01.01.2022 Topic: Singing binaries: Listening to the chirps of black holes Speaker: Professor Ilya Mandel, Monash University On September 14, 2015, the instruments of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detected a disturbance. This tiny signal was the echo of a very loud song, sung by a pair of black holes merging more than a billion years ago during the last fraction of a second of their lives. This discovery heralded the conclusion of a decades-long search ...for one of the most difficult to test predictions of General Relativity, Einstein’s theory of gravity. At the same time, this black-hole was the first note of a beautiful symphony to reach us through a newly opened window on the Universe. Through this window of gravitational-wave astronomy, we are already beginning to probe the secrets of strong-field gravity. We have by now heard around 50 more songs coming from the mergers of compact remnants of massive stars: neutron stars and black holes, and anticipate many more in the coming years. Like palaeontologists who use the skeletons of dinosaurs to discover what living dinosaurs looked like, we are beginning to study the evolutionary history of massive stars by observing their merging remnants.