This month ……. Telescopes. From the Greek “tele” meaning far, and “skopein” meaning to look or see Telescopes aren’t just for...

15th April 1970 Humans travel the furthest in space when the Apollo 13 crew reach 400,171 km from Earth in an attempt to return to Earth...

February 2019 For the month of February, 2019 it appeared to me that all Sunspot activity had ceased with all other activity remaining...

25th March 1655 Titan, Saturn’s largest moon was discovered by Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens. Titan is considered the most...

The stars shone bright on14 Feb at Centennial Parklands for Sydney City Skywatchers first outreach telescope viewing night of the year....

13 February 1633 Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome to face charges of heresy for advocating the Copernican theory, which...

Our first club meeting is on Monday 4 February at 6:30pm, with a presentation by Lesa Moore about astrobiology. The Oldest Star: One of...

Happy New Year! 24th January 1986 Voyager 2 encounters Uranus. At its closest the spacecraft came to within 81,500 kilometres of Uranus's...

This month we are featuring Space Probes – Crashes, Lego and the missing hyphen The Soviet probe Luna 15 crashed into the surface of the...