Whats in Perth for an astronomer?

[Tony Leece]

Not realy checked things out for astronomy yet.
Are there any good astro clubs or shops around the Perth area?
Thanks guys...........
Tony..........

[vindictive666]

hiya tony

check this site they are in perth



http://www.btow.com.au/

follow the links and iam sure you will find some perth based clubs :)


under the information links

[Tony Leece]

Cheers mate...........

Tony........

[beren]

In Perth there's two astronomical societies/groups

ASWA -http://aswa.info/ very active

Monthly general meeting
Monthly "Club Night", less formal gathering
Monthly "How" workshops at the society's observatory
Two Deep sky meets monthly
A Lunar viewing night
Public viewing nights and caters for requests from schools/groups etc
Yahoo group
Two astro-camps a year to a rural location


AGWA- http://www.btow.com.au/agwa.shtml

Affiliated with BTOW


The Perth metro area is only serviced by one dedicated shop and that's BTOW, like with anything its best to shop around and there's a number of interstate stores that are good to deal with. There's a number of camera stores dotted through the city that has modest equipment but there is one that has a surprising large selling area http://www.camera-land.com.au/Website/pages/contact.html that includes Celestron Nexstar SCTs etc to skywatcher brand scopes , staff arnt to knowledgeable but there's opportunities to save when they have a floor sale to clear demo gear.


The state funded observatory located just out from Perth offers tours and viewing nights {if your keen you can volunteer to help with these nights to}, well worth the visit .... http://www.wa.gov.au/perthobs/.

The private Golden Grove observatory has public viewing nights which i think can be organised through the AWGA/BTOW group
Some links to other places http://members.westnet.com.au/web/astroventures/

[johnno]

Hi Tony,
Welcome to Ice In Space,
I am afraid I cant help you with Astronomy info re Perth,but I can tell you one of your Countrymen lives there,a fellow by the name of
HANK MARVIN.

Regards.John

[astroron]

Do you mind, HANK _B_ MARVIN is the correct title, he has lived over there for quite a long time, him and Cliff Richard get together when Cliff is over here.
There is also The Southern Cross Cosmos Centre and Observatory near GinGin eighty Kms north of Perth, it is part of the Gravitational wave experimental Telescope (I think it is classed as a Telescope).
Tony you should enjoy yourself over in WA, I will be their for Christmas.astroron :thumbsup:

[Tony Leece]

Thanks for all the links and info guys, there's a lot more to Perth, astronomy-wise than i thought.
I will be checking them all out.
Will keep my eye out for Hank and Cliff, should be easy in such a lttle villlage like Perth:)
Would be cool to meet up 'astroron' when you get over to perth.:thumbsup:
If you know the city, perhaps you could show me around.
All the best everyone.
Cheers...........
Tony...........