The Sidereal Times

The Sidereal Times is the official Journal of the Astronomical Society of Western Australia. Published bi-monthly, it contains a range of informative articles (mostly written by members), sky highlights for the coming months, Society reports, classified advertisements, notice of Society events and details of past activities within the Society. Together with our monthly Ordinary meetings, it provides the main form of communicating information to Society members.

It also features up-to-the-minute bulletins on current and future astronomical and space-related events from agencies such as NASA, the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute, Jet Propulsion Laboratories, the European Space Agency, the European Southern Observatory and the International Astronomical Union, as well as gleanings from publications of astronomical organizations throughout the world.

Links to a selection of articles that have appeared in The Sidereal Times and have a long standing interest have been included below for your enjoyment. Happy reading!

[Note: ASWA does not hold copyright on these articles. Please contact the respective authors for permission if you wish to reproduce any of them for your own purposes.]

Genesis Plus 10 (ASWA's first decade)
- April / May 1990 issue

Finding Proxima Centauri
- August / September 1996 issue

Photographing Comets
- April / May 1997 issue

Photographing Lunar and Solar Eclipses
- August / September 1997 issue

Focusing for Astrophotography
- December 1997 / January 1998 issue

Forty Years Ago (ASWA MoonWatch program)
- December 1997 / January 1998 issue

Just what is Averted Vision, Anyway?
- June / July 1998 issue

Cosmic Bird Watching: Visual Observation of the Deep Sky (in two parts)
- December 1998 / January 1999
& February / March 1999 issues

Submissions to The Sidereal Times and other ASWA publications may be forwarded to the Editor as text or as Word attachments.