Updates in this Newsletter- Upcoming Total Lunar Eclipse on 15th April!
- IISAC2014 only 5 weeks away!
- CWAS David Malin Awards for 2014
- Check out our Articles and Reviews!
* Upcoming Total Lunar Eclipse on 15th April!
On the 15th April 2014, we'll (weather pending!) experience our first total lunar eclipse in 2.5 years!
For Australians and New Zealanders, the eclipse will be in progress at Moonrise - approx 5:28pm AEST when the totality phase will have just started. So you'll need access to a good Eastern horizon, but it will still be difficult to spot the eclipsed moon until it gets a bit higher.
The further East you are, the more of the eclipse you'll see. If you're in the Western half of Australia, you'll only see the very end of the partial phase. New Zealanders will see almost the entire eclipse.
For more information about the event, including how and where to see it and photograph it, check out the article on IceInSpace here:
Total Lunar Eclipse - 15th April, 2014.
Lunar Eclipses are completely safe to observe - no filters or glasses needed!
Enjoy the view and if you take some photos, feel free to post them on IceInSpace or our
Facebook page!
* IISAC2014 only 5 weeks away!
IIASC2014 (the IceInSpace AstroCamp) is now only just over 5 weeks away! Have you got your
registration in yet?
IISAC2014 is being held on the 24th - 26th April 2014, again in the beautiful Hunter Valley region of NSW, at Lostock. This year it's being held during the school holidays and a public holiday (ANZAC Day), so you can minimise the annual leave you need to take, AND bring the family along!
Find out more about
IISAC on the info page, or jump straight to registration at the
IceInSpace Shop.
I'm pleased to announce that there'll be 3 door prizes available to win at IISAC2014, thanks to our generous sponsors -
Bintel,
Wildcard Innovations and
Knightware.
- Bintel GSO RCA-200 f/8 Astrograph (Steel) , sponsored by Bintel (valued at $899).
- 50% off an Argo Navis Digital Telescope Computer, sponsored by Wildcard Innovations (valued at $246)
- Deep-Sky Planner 6 software, sponsored by Knightware (valued at $72.00)
If you've never been to a star party before, if you've never seen the Milky Way under a dark sky, you just have to come along. It's a great event for the whole family - you don't need to own a telescope, and you don't need to be an IceInSpace member. Everyone is welcome, and I hope to see you there.
* CWAS David Malin Awards for 2014
At IceInSpace, we love the annual
CWAS David Malin Awards.
It's the premier astrophotography competition in Australia, and always challenges our best talent to step outside the ordinary and produce something extraordinary in a chance to win some fantastic prizes offered by Canon Australia. Check out the winning entries in previous David Malin Awards on the
CWAS site.
The 2014 DMA's have just been announced, and there's a few nice twists this year. The animated sequences section now has separate categories for scientific and aesthetic animations, and the open theme this year is all about "The Moon" - not just Moon in the landscape, but something unique and different. I'm really looking forward to seeing how creative the community can be and see what they come up with.
Head over to the
CWAS site for more information, and to submit your entries!
Good luck!
* Check out our Articles and Reviews
If you've only recently discovered IceInSpace, you may not yet have had a chance to browse our comprehensive list of user-contributed articles and reviews!
If you check out the
Projects and Articles page, you'll find a vast number of how-to home projects, tutorials and guides, astrophotography tips and tricks, observing reports, upcoming celestial events and more. Plenty there suitable for beginners and experienced amateur astronomers.
The
Equipment Reviews section has reviews for telescopes, astrophotography gear including cameras, accessories, eyepieces, binoculars, mounts and software. If you're looking to purchase a new or second hand telescope, it's a great place to start to see what others in the community have to say about it.
Very few of these articles would exist without the fabulous IceInSpace community contributing them for the benefit of others - sharing their knowledge so others can learn.
If you've got something you think you'd like to share, we'd love to hear from you. Please don't think it won't be good enough - just imagine you'll be talking to other amateur astronomers just like you. Please get in touch via our
Contributing to IceInSpace page.
Thanks for reading! Keep looking up!
