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The Sixth ASSA Symposium was held on 14 to 16 October 2004 at The Military History Museum in Saxonwold, Johannesburg.
Symposium Organising Committee:
Brian Fraser, Lerika Cross and Sharon Tait
Summary of the symposium and programme:
Announcement: 
symposium_ammouncement-2004
Report Back on Symposium: symposium_report-2004
Talks given at the Symposium:
- Dr Kelvin Kemm; (Stratek) “Star Wars and Little Green Men in the
Karoo”:
Paper: not available Presentation: not available - Dr Ian Glass; ‘Recent Studies of Mira and Semi-regular variables’
Paper: not available Presentation: not available - Dr Barbara Cunow; (UNISA) “Stars and Dust in Galaxies”
Paper: not available Presentation: not available - Magda Streicher; “Deep Sky Observations”
Paper: deep_sky-streicher Presentation: not available - Prof Deick Smits; (UNISA) “Determining the Primordial Helium Abundance”
Paper: primordial_abundances-smits Presentation: not available - Robbie Yates; “Light Pollution – Current News”
Paper: not available Presentation: not available - Tim Cooper; “Analysis of Comet Brightness from SA Observations”.
Paper: comet_brightness-cooper Presentation: not available - Jacques van Delft; “Solar Activity and Climatic Change”
Paper: not available Presentation: not available - Prof Phil Charles; (SAAO) “Black Hole Masses in Galactic X-ray Binaries”.
Paper: not available Presentation: not available - Dr Peter Kotze; (Hermanus Magnetic Observatory) “Living on a Giant Magnet”
Paper: not available Presentation: not available - Dr Roger Gibson (WITS) “Impact craters”.
Paper: not available Presentation: not available - Tim Cooper et. al.; “Alexander William Roberts – the
Man and His Observations”
Paper: roberts_observations-2-cooper Presentation: not available - Dr Barbara Cunow; (UNISA) “Saturn over the Years”.
Paper: not available Presentation: not available - Magda Streicher; “Cyril Jackson Observatory” in Haenertsburg
Paper: not available Presentation: not available - Johan Smit; “History of Exploration of Mars”.
Paper: not available Presentation: not available - Emmanuel Petrakakis; “Inca Archaeoastronomy”.
Paper: not available Presentation: not available - Brian Fraser; “The Franklin Adams Telescope and its Contribution to Astronomy”.
Paper: not available Presentation: not available - Dr Mike Gaylard; “HartRao”
Paper: not available Presentation: not available - Sarah Buchner; “Pulsars”
Paper: not available Presentation: not available - Dr Shamila Goedhart; “Star Formation”
Paper: not available Presentation: not available
Outings:
14 October: Evening visit to Johannesburg Planetarium hosted by Dr Claire Flanagan.
15 October: Starparty at Johannesburg Observatory
16 October: Morning visit to Leiden Southern Station Observatory at Broederstroom and afternoon visit to Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory.
Attendees at Symposium:
Gallery: