Social events included
in the conference schedule
Saturday 19 September 2020 | Astronomy Open Night 2020 (link to AON2019 for information) |
Tuesday 22 September 2020 (tbc) | Public lecture, Macquarie Theatre; (details tba) |
Wednesday 23 September 2020 (afternoon) | Optional excursions to the workshops of AAO-MQ (Australian Astronomical Optics at Macquarie), CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS), or Sydney Observatory. The excursion to CASS will include a visit to the CASS Receiver Lab, Pulsar@Parkes, and one or more background presentations. |
Thursday 24 September 2020 | Conference dinner at Curzon Hall |
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Pre-conference tour
We are working on putting a pre-conference tour together, taking visitors to “The Dish” (the Parkes radio telescope), the Australia Telescope Compact Array in Narrabri, and Siding Spring Observatory |
The tour will take 4 days and cost about A$400-500 per person. We will update this information as the planning develops. |