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Originally Posted by Nuclear Fission
Cheers Nick  I'll have to have a look into those lectures.
Out of curiosity, for some of you guys that have qualifications in Astronomy, is it something you can actually use to get a profession out of in Australia? Like is the Masters Degree something you can actually use? Or would you have to go the next step further and do your PhD?
I'm not doing it to get a career out of, just for personal interest, just curious about it that's all. Would be nice to know it's a qualification you could fall back on one day.
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Oh yes.....I have applications in to several of the community colleges in the US (California, precisely) to teach astronomy in the colleges. The colleges basically do the first couple of years of an university degree. You need a masters degree to be able to apply for a teaching position in the colleges. You can also grab observers positions at the various scopes around the world if you have a masters degree, Plus, if you want to work as a senior assistant at a planetarium or museum, you need a masters degree. A number of the colleges have very comprehensive astronomy courses.
Having a PhD is an extra bonus and will get you a bit further along, but it's not necessary to have unless you want to go straight into a research position at one of the major universities or research institutes. Then you go into a postdoc research position and keep working until you can get a position as a lecturer. If you're lucky, you get offered tenure.