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Programme 2010


Friday 6th August 2010
8:00 am

Queensland Astrofest Opens

Whole Camp
Saturday 7th August 2010
11:30 am Vendor sales Main Hall
3:00 pm

Honored Guest: Trevor Barry

"From Broken Hill to the Keck's"
Trevor would talk about his introduction to astronomy and how he came to do a Grad Cert Sc in Astronomy with Swinburne, his serendipitous discovery of an electrical storm on Saturn and the things that flowed on from that following the official recognition of his contribution to the Cassini mission by NASA. Culminating with the Catalyst TV special and his observing trip to Hawaii with the Keck's.

Under the Main Hall
Sunday 8th August 2010
2:00 pm

Workshop/Presentation: David O,Driscoll

The GRAS Project

Under the Main Hall
Monday 9th August 2010
.2:00 pm

Workshop/Presentation: Terry Cuttle

The 2012 Total Solar Eclipse

  Under the Main Hall
Tuesday 10th August 2010
..2:00 pm

Workshop/Presentation: Bill Castleman

Imaging Potpourri of a Wandering Floridian

  Under the Main Hall
Wednesday 11th August 2010
..2:00 pm  

Workshop/Presentation: Laurie Billman

Telescope Drive Systems

  Under the Main Hall
Thursday 12th August 2010
..2:00 pm  

Workshop/Presentation: Greg Bock

Fundamental Image Processing

  Under the Main Hall
Friday 13th August 2010
11:30 am Vendor Sales Main Hall
2:00 pm

Workshop/Presentation: Jonathan Bradshaw

Robotic Observing Project

Under the Main Hall
3:00 pm Astro-Trivia. Form a team and see who has the most trivia cluttering their heads. Under the Main Hall
Saturday 14th August 2010
10:00 am ATM Judging Main Field
11:00 am Vendor Sales and Buy/Swap/Sell Meet Main Hall
1:00 pm Counter Weight Tossing Competition Next to Main Hall
2:00 pm Group Photo Session In front of Observatory
3:00 pm

Honored Guest: Dr David Wiltshire

"Dark Energy and Cosmic Structure"
A decade ago two teams of astronomers discovered that distant supernovae are fainter than they would be in the standard model of cosmology if clumped matter is the only stuff present in the universe. It appears that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, requiring the existence of "dark energy" - an enigmatic repulsive substance in the vacuum of space.

Dark energy has been hailed as the greatest fundamental mystery in physics today, and is supported by many independent observations. However, there is a coincidence that the strength of the dark energy is such that the expansion only starts accelerating relatively recently, at the same time that huge structures - voids, walls, and filaments containing clusters of galaxies - are observed to start forming. A number of cosmologists have questioned whether "dark energy" simply reflects the inability of the standard model to properly account for the average evolution of such complex cosmic structures. I will present the arguments, and my view as to why resolving the mystery of dark energy may be even more interesting than most physicists have dared to imagine.

Under the Main Hall
4:00 pm Close of Voting for Erwin van der Velden Memorial Trophies Kitchen Dining Room
4:30 pm ASTRO-FEAST and presentation of competition prizes and raffle draws Main Hall
Sunday 15th August 2010
12:00 pm Close of Camp... Pack up and leave for another year  

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