NORTHERN OBSERVING SITE
North West , Launceston and North East Tasmania
The Northern Chapter of the Society draws in members from across Northern Tasmania. Members and guests are most welcome from all over the State as well as visitors from interstate.
Viewing nights are hosted from time to time by Northern Members. See the Website Events tab for details of upcoming events.
As a group, we also gather online via Zoom Conference for astronomy discussion nights. Participation from throughout Tasmania is welcome. These are hosted mostly by Bruce Nye
All Members of the Public and all ages are welcome to attend viewing and discussion nights with regular attendees being encouraged to become Society members.
We cater for all ranges of equipment and abilities from naked eye observation and binoculars, observation with Newtonian, refractor and Cassegrain telescopes and astrophotography of planetary and deep sky objects using go-to tracking mounts.
NORTHERN AST CONTACTS:
Geoff Blackman 0438 390 681 geofnkath iinet.net.au
Bruce Nye 0437 741 202 bnye internode.on.net
Merv Milward 0418 343 519 mervyn.milward gmail.com
Katrina Edmunds 0417 911 714 kated4 bigpond.net.au
Richard Nale 0414 457 234 rchnale gmail.com
SOUTHERN OBSERVING SITE
Hobart Observatory
The Society's observatory is located within the University of Tasmania’s Radio Observatory site at Mt. Pleasant between Cambridge and Richmond.
The Society’s purpose-built observatories and observing grounds are equipped with nine telescopes:
- 12.5" Obsession Dobsonian reflector
- 12” Meade LX 200 Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope
- 10” Meade LX55 Maksutof Newtonian on a Dobsonian mount
- 14” Celestron Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope
- 9.25" Celestron Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope
- 5” Celestron Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope
- 3.5" refractor
- 2 Coronado solar telescopes (40mm and 60mm)
