School Field Nights

Information For Members

School Field Nights to be advised as they are organized. Contact Julie on 3325 2479 education@seqas.org

Members with telescopes are encouraged to attend. These nights are a means of fund raising for SEQAS and a source of new members.

In addition, these nights are recommended for members without telescopes or perhaps members considering buying one, to gain the opportunity of looking through a variety of instruments.

Often there is a spare telescope to be operated, so why not come along.

Information For Schools

The SEQAS school night program aims to provide the school community with the opportunity of observing the wonders of the night sky. This will be achieved through the use of the society members' owned telescopes and the society's Celestron Nexstar 11 telescope and Stella Cam 2 video camera showing live video images of deep sky objects on a LCD screen. We will soon be able to offer daytime observing sessions of the Sun through 3 dedicated Solar Telescopes in 2012.

SEQAS offers:

• Viewing for all year levels P-12.
• Programme can be tailored to suit a particular year level.
• An introductory talk on the night sky.
• Viewing through telescopes usually around first quarter moon to observe lunar features such as craters, seas and mountains; double stars; star clusters; galaxies; visible planets etc.
• Optional simple star charts.
• Optional curriculum - based worksheets which can be used in conjunction with the viewing night.
• Viewing for up to 200 people (depending on the number of telescopes available).
Safe daytime viewing of the Sun through dedicated Solar Telescopes.

Cost
$3 Per Person
$10 Per Family

We recommend that the evening should last between 1 1/2 to 2 hours and as the evening is dependent on the weather, a back-up date should be considered.

See above for contact phone numbers.

Please check back soon for 2012 dates