Web pages that are no longer current, are archived here for reference purposes. Material is arranged by year of publication on the ASSA website, and then by subject.
Published in 2015
Projects
Published in 2014
Outreach Section
Shallow Sky (Solar System)
- C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy-a binocular comet in time for Christmas
- Huge sunspot AR 2192
- Comet Siding Springs encounter with Mars
- Comet C/2013 V5 (Oukaimeden)
- International observe the moon night 6th September
- Occultation of theta Librae – 1st Sept 2014
- C/2012 K1 (PANSTARRS)
- The Eta Aquarids in May
- AR 1967 is back
- Fireball seen on Monday, January 27
- Huge sunspot AR 1967 putting on a show
- January’s huge sunspot
- January’s Jupiter challenge: imaging Ganymede
Published in 2013
Outreach Section
- Moon Viewing Evening, Makhado Crossing, Louis Trichardt. Saturday, 2013 December 07 (presented by Soutpansberg Astronomy Club)
- World Space Week 2013 – Cape Town (presented by StarPeople)
- National Science Week 2013 – Cape Town (presented by StarPeople)
- National Science Week 2013 – Limpopo (presented by Soutpansberg Astronomy Club)
Shallow Sky (Solar System)
- Fireball seen on Saturday, December 21
- What’s Up in January 2014?
- Nova Cen 2013 now a naked-eye object!
- Rock or meteorite? Possible meteorite find on a farm in Mpumalanga.
- Comet Ison pronounced dead – the Sun is the chief suspect! (phys.org)
- Catch the Geminids this week-end
- Get ready for the smallest (and last) Full Moon of the year
- An animated GIF from SOHO, www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/ison-survives_0.gif, shows the recent solar passage of Comet ISON.
- Finder charts for Comet ISON
- Partial solar eclipse, 2013 November 03
- Penumbral lunar eclipse, 2013 October 18/19