ASV Astronomy Exhibition - 3rd October 2010

[iceman]

The Astronomical Society of Victoria Inc., welcomes everyone to its Astronomy Exhibition 2010.

Date: Sunday 3rd October 2010
Time: 10am–5pm
Venue: National Herbarium, Birdwood Avenue, South Yarra
(Melways Map 2L A1, intersection of Dallas Brooks Drive and Birdwood Avenue)
Admission: Free

Experienced observers will use special telescopes to safely show the Moon and Venus in daylight and the Sun’s features. The ASV’s activities will be displayed. Amateur astronomers will be on hand to discuss their astronomical projects and answer questions about telescopes and observing the night sky.

Interesting telescopes, astronomical photographs and progress on the Great Melbourne Telescope restoration project will be featured. The Exhibition is being held in conjunction with the Royal Botanic Gardens Spring Open Day.

Enquiries – Telephone (03)9888 7130
Website: http://www.asv.org.au


The attached image shows a public viewing night in 2009 at the Old Melbourne Observatory.

[OneOfOne]

I will be there with my scale solar system, some meteorites and a number of other astronomical "models" that I use in some of my astronomical talks.

Come along, it should be fun!

[leon]

Wow, yep i will certainly try and make it, sounds very interesting.

Leon

[OneOfOne]

Well, I think we had a fantastic turnout! I was keeping a mental tally of the number of people I talked to and got to about 70 or 80 in total, my throat was pretty sore by the end of the day. There were a number of people who walked past me on the way out while I was talking to other people, so I think I missed a potential further 30 or 40. Overall, we would have had several hundred through the building. I was positioned in one corner of the room, near the side entrance, and tried to grab anyone as they left if I didn't recall talking to them earlier.

My model Solar System grabbed the attention of a number of people, but the most popular thing was my 11kg meteorite, followed by my Lunar and Martian meteorites.

Hopefully we see a few people turn up at the next meeting in a couple of weeks.