Club and Member Highlights

This page contains some notable club and member achievements and awards

September 2024 - Letter and Community Recognition Statement for Glenmore Park School Outreach Event

June 2022 - Member Dave Gault has an asteroid named after him

May 2021 - Dave Gault and Peter Nosworthy discover moon of asteroid (4337) Arecibo

December 2020 - Dave Gault is co-author of paper: Precise astrometry and diameters of asteroids from occultations – a data set of observations and their interpretation

2020 - Tony Barry wins the IOTA Homer F. Daboll Award

October 2019 - Tony Barry, Rob Horvat and three astronomers from Penrith Observatory are co-authors on paper: The first observed stellar occultations by the irregular satellite (Saturn IX) Phoebe and improved rotational period

2019 - Dave Gault wins the IOTA Homer F. Daboll Award

2009 to 2018 - Award winning astrophotographer Ted Dobosz

May 2018 - Alan Plummer clocks up 60,000 variable star observations

June 2017 - Seven WSAAG members cited in paper: The structure of Chariklo's rings from stellar occultations

October 2016 - Dave Gault (WSAAG) and Dave Herald (CAS) Discover a New Double Star During Lunar Occultation

January 2016 - Seven WSAAG members co-author paper: Pluto's atmosphere from the 29 June 2015 ground-based stellar occultation at the time of the New Horizons flyby

March 2016 - Presentation by Rob Horvat: Upgrading the 30-inch Telescope at Linden Observatory

September 2015 - WSAAG Receives UWS Community Award 2015

July 2015 - Tony Barry, Dave Gault, abd Hristo Pavlov co-author paper: A digital video system for observing and recording occultations

April 2015 - Tony Barry and Dave Gault publish paper on SEXTA: Verifying timestamps of occultation observation systems

November 2012 - UWS Partnership Awards 2012 - WSAAG receives Certificate of Appreciation

October 2011 - How it was Built - The IOTA VTI for occultation timing by Tony Barry

2010 - Hristo Pavlov wins the IOTA Homer F. Daboll Award (Award Presentation)

April 2010 - Dave Gault wins the 2010 Berenice Page Medal

2008 - NACAA XXIII and TTSO2 held at Penrith

2003 - The Evans 30-inch Telescope Comes to Linden (2016 article by Rob Horvat)

2000 - Brett White earns two Nova Awards

1986 - Bob Evans wins the 1986 Berenice Page Medal

Bob Evans - His many other awards

Bob Evans - His Many Nova/Supernova Awards

Bob Evans - Record supernova Discoveries