ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Event Horizon – A year in review 2017-2018 September 2017 EH Cassini’s Grande Finale Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech…….On Sept. 15, 2017, the spacecraft made its final approach to the giant planet Saturn THE GREAT TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE - 21ST AUGUST 2017 Noeleen and Graham Lowndes TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE IMAGES FROM THE SAS Facebook page - Yuri Beletsky Wyoming, USA. & International Space Station , transits the Sun. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/ #Eclipse2017 Dylan O’Donnell Jenny Robinson - Eagle Nebula Mike Geisel - alpha Coronado PST exposing for flares October 2017 EH SAS Outreach – Saturn in the Park 30 September 2017 Greg Bock - Silver Dollar Galaxy NGC253 & Orion’s Saucepan November 2017 EH Mars Insight NASA's Next Mars Mission to Investigate Interior of Red Planet SAS has a Boarding Pass Noeleen Lowndes Star Trails Dylan O’Donnell ESA's West Australian Deep Space Tracking Station International Observe the Moon Night October 2017 From the SAS Facebook page The Pinnacles - WA Image credit: Jingyi Zhang Colliding neutron stars detected both as a gravitational wave and also with telescopes at Siding Spring Observatory Dylan O’Donnell - Andromeda Tony Kim - M42 – Orion Nebula The StarFest experience Siding Spring Observatory - Mike Geisel December 2017 EH ‘Oumuamua’ – but what is it? Comet, asteroid or alien space ship??? Klaus Schlussler - Helix Nebula & Orion Nebula Mike Geisel – Large Magellanic Cloud & Tarantula Nebula January 2018 EH BOSS TEAM MEMBER, Pat PEARL’S 1ST Supernova discovery ASTRONOMY - when things go wrong: The Leyburn storm SAS Christmas 2017 BBQ Dylan O’Donnell – Horsehead & Flame Nebulae Horsehead and Orion Nebulae February 2018 EH – From the SAS Facebook page Yuri Beletsky Nightscapes – SEST radio telescope at La Silla, Chile International Astronomical Union(IAU) recognised one of the Australian Aboriginal names,'Unurgunite' (Sigma Canis Majoris), from the Boorong people, north western Victoria. Mike Geisel –Flaming Star Nebula Fraser Smith ‘in the news’ – Courier Mail 31 January 2018 Lunar Eclipse from Eden NSW Image credit: Gary Hunter, ABC news contributor Greg Bock – M78 reflection nebula in Orion Tony Kim – Rosette Nebula March 2018 EH From the SAS Facebook page Elon Musk launches roadster into space Chris Wheeler – Macleay Island view Ray Suckling – Orion nebula Noeleen Lowndes - Lightning Noeleen Lowndes - Sunspots Dylan O’Donnell - Rosette Nebula APRIL 2017 EH Stephen Hawking – 1942 – 2018 R.I.P. S= πAkc³ 2hG By Melbourne artist Mitchell Toy Noeleen Lowndes – The Northern Lights, Norway Ray Suckling - Pleiades, (M45) & Orion Nebula, (M42, NGC 1976) Mike Geisel – Tarantula Nebula & Old Ballarat Observatory (NACAA) SAS Facebook page - remains of the oldest documented example of a supernova! The Chinese witnessed the explosive event in 185 C.E. (Chandra X-ray Observatory) Pat Pearl - NGC4945 in Centaurus Howie Smith – Horsehead Nebula May 2018 EH - 20 April Aurora Australis bloomed. Cradle Mt Tasmania - image credit Jai Moyle Aurora Australis Tasmania Facebook page Tony Kim - Saturn Greg Bock - Omega Centauri Dylan O’Donnell - NGC 5128 Centaurus A, (Hamburger) Chris Wheeler – Southern Pinwheel Galaxy Mike Geisel – Vela supernova remnant Noeleen Lowndes – Nova in Carina (ASASSN-18fv) June 2018 EH - STARGAZING LIVE – World Record attempt Dylan O’Donnell – ‘Stargazing Live’- ISS Lunar Transit This image was featured by Prof. Brian Cox on Stargazing :Live ABC Brendan Junge – ‘War & Peace’ Glenn Burgess - Jupiter Tony Kim – Lagoon Nebula Meteorite donated by Geoff Notkin – ‘Meteorite Man’ ……Dylan O'Donnell paid it forward to the students of the Byron Bay Public School July 2018 EH – Duncan Gillespie R.I.P. STAR STUFF ! more STAR STUFF Julie Lancaster - Byron Bay – Stairway to the Sun Noeleen Lowndes – ‘Honourable Mention’ at David Malin Awards held at Parkes Greg Bock – BOSS team member 14th Supernova discovery Known as AT2018ecf, it is located in one of the outer edges of an arm of the face-on spiral galaxy known as PGC50325. The galaxy lies about 104 million light years away from us. It's very satisfying to be involved in 2 discoveries, this new supernova and a new comet known as 'Comet ASASSN2' or 'C/2018 N2' August 2018 EH Parker Solar Probe launch from Cape Canaveral …….. And from Mapleton, Sunshine Coast hinterland image credits: NASA & Ade N Lain Sunshine Coast Dark Sky Astronomers Queensland Astrofest Chris Wheeler – looking up Tony Kim - Veil Nebula Mike Geisel – Milky Way Dylan O’Donnell – Antares and the Rho Ophiuchus Region Ray Suckling – SAO 184336, Sigma Scorpius Tony Kim – Colin Drescher the comet C/2018 N1 (NEOWISE) Noeleen Lowndes – ‘Planets’ Total Lunar Eclipse - 28 July 2018 – images from the SAS Facebook page Murray Wilkinson – transition to totality Tony Kim – totality To SAS members & SAS Facebook page members and all those who contributed to ‘Event Horizon’ over the past 12 months – I want to thank you sincerely for sharing your images for publication in the newsletter – it makes my job so much easier ~ Julie Lancaster – Editor.