February 2026

Peter Nosworthy

(WSAAG)

Five Moons in Five Years

(in person)

November 2025

Dr. Rosanna Ruggeri (QUT)

A New Hope for the Universe: Is Dark Energy Weakening?

(via Zoom)

October 2025

Associate Prof. Brad Tucker (ANU)

The Past, Present, and Future of Mt Stromlo - Celebrating Mt Stromlo’s 100th Anniversary

(via Zoom)

September 2025

Barney Cservak (WSAAG)

Astrophotography 101, or how to massage your images to get a great result

(in person)

August 2025

Dr. Elizabeth Arcadi (Macquarie University)

Nulling Interferometry: Finding Planets Outside Our Solar System

(in person)

July 2025

Prof. Wayne Orchiston (University of Science & Technology of China)

Ken Beames and Linden Observatory: Some Historical Reflections on Telescopes and Telescope-making in Sydney

(in person)

June 2025

Prof. Mark Krumholz (ANU)

The Birth of Suns

(via Zoom)

May 2025

Prof. Tim Bedding 

(University of Sydney)

Planets and starquakes with NASA’s Space Telescopes

(in person)

April 2025

Dr. Laura Driessen

(University of Sydney)

The Dynamic Radio Sky

(in person)

March 2025

Prof. Richard de Grijs

(Macquarie University)

The sound of silence: Listening to the Universe

(in person)

February 2025

A/Prof. Luke Davies

(University of Western Australia)

How Far? Measuring distances that are large than a ruler

(via Zoom)

November 2024

Dr. Sven Buder (ANU)

Galactic Archaeology with Starlight

October 2024

Prof. Richard McDermid (Macquarie University)

MAVIS - An Australian-Led Next-Generation Facility Instrument for the European Southern Observatory

September 2024

Narayan Mukkavilli (WSAAG)

Brahe, Kepler and the Eight Minutes that changed Cosmology forever

August 2024

Kovi Rose (University of Sydney)

The Search for Dwarf Stars with Large Telescope Arrays

July 2024

Dr. Caroline Foster (UNSW)

Why do Galaxies Slow Down as they Age?

June 2024

Dr Jakob van den Eijnden - (University of Warwick UK)

Stellar cannibalism: the messy etiquette of the universe's most extreme stars

May 2024

Professor Geraint Lewis - (Sydney Institute for Astronomy University of Sydney)

Supermassive black holes and time in the Early Universe

April 2024

Ian Bridges (Linden Observatory Trust)

Ken Beames - Telescope Maker and Engineer

March 2024

Lesa Moore  (Astronomical Society of NSW)

Women in Astronomy - Apollo, a Great Wall and a Fat Gorilla

February 2024

Dr Shi Dai (Western Sydney University)

Magnetic field reversal in the turbulent environment around a repeating fast radio burst