Western Sydney Amateur Astronomy Group Inc.

31/08/2026

This article about the new observatory at Powerhouse Parramatta features Nada Salama who gave a fascinating talk at our May 2026 meeting.

Powerhouse Parramatta is now home to an observatory featuring research-grade telescopes powerful enough to see distant galaxies.

15/08/2026

WSAAG has been fighting to have the new airport flight paths changed to avoid flying over Linden Observatory. An article about it has been published in The Australian. See comments for a non-paywalled link published on another site.

In a classic David and Goliath battle, a group of amateur astronomers in Western Sydney is fighting the federal government and Airservices over the interference to its astrophotography from new flight paths.

10/08/2026

Update: This event has been cancelled due to bad weather. It will be re-scheduled to a later date.

WSAAG is supporing a free stargazing night at Bradfield (near the new WSI Airport) this Saturday 15th August (weather permitting). Register at the link below if you'd like to attend as a visitor.

You're invited to Bradfield City Under the Stars

30/04/2026

☄️Comet C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS appears in the southern hemisphere evening sky after its recent closest approach to the Sun. It is expected to be visible to the naked eye from late April through early May then quickly fade. Look for it in the west after sunset. Binoculars are recommended to follow it for the first half of May. Smartphone photos are worth trying. C/2025 R3 is visitor from the distant Oort Cloud in a 160,000 year orbit.

04/04/2026

Hello World (APOD: 2026 Apr 04)
Image Credit: NASA, Reid Wiseman, Artemis II
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260404.html

Explanation: From pole to pole our fair planet is captured in this snapshot from space, an evocative image from a window of the Orion spacecraft Integrity, From the spacecraft's perspective the Sun is moving behind Earth's bright limb along the lower right. Africa and the Iberian peninsula are in view on the pale blue planet's surface, while aurorae crown Earth's south and north poles at top right and bottom left. Commander Reid Wiseman took the historic picture on Artemis II mission flight day 2 (April 2), after the completion of the planned translunar injection burn. That burn boosted the spacecraft out of Earth orbit, sending spacecraft and crew on a trajectory that will take them around the Moon and back again. That's a journey humans last made over 50 years ago.

https://www.nasa.gov/
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/our-artemis-crew/

Starship Asterisk* • APOD Discussion Page
https://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=260404

02/03/2026

There will be a Total Lunar (Blood Moon) Eclipse on Tuesday evening (3rd March). This will be the last total lunar eclipse until December 2028. Unfortunately the weather forecast looks bad for the Blue Mountains. Regardless, I will be live streaming the event on YouTube from my observatory at Hazelbrook starting at 8.30pm. If the clouds make viewing impossible I will show live feeds from other parts of the world. Youtube link: https://youtube.com/live/LKU-p-i3bIQ
- Peter Nosworthy

I'm streaming the Total Lunar Eclipse Live from Hazelbrook Observatory (The Hazo Gazo).In the event of bad weather we will view feeds from other locations wh...

25/01/2026

https://futurism.com/space/james-webb-star-crumbling

A stunning new image taken with the James Webb Space Telescope provides a closeup look a dying star and its irradiated remains.

12/12/2025

https://youtu.be/QgoX1jsX1D4?si=rAlvkZ5srkEelcrX

The Geminid meteor shower will be visible this weekend, with the potential to see dozens of meteors per hour as Earth traverses the debris of asteroid 3200 P...

07/12/2025

https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/ethereal-structure-in-the-sky-rivals-pillars-of-creation-space-photo-of-the-week

The twin telescopes of the Gemini Observatory mark 25 years of discovery as students name distant nebula Ua ʻŌhiʻa Lan.

06/12/2025