Past student revisits MBO – and brings his students!
MBO was honoured to have the first PhD student to graduate from the observatory back when Monash University ran it, Dr Len Halprin, come back and pay a visit – […]
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Outreach Team Finishes a Huge August Program
The Outreach team had a massive month of events in August 2019. Nearly half the month had something on! We did: 7 scout groups 2 interest groups (adults) 1 private […]
Saturday 7th September 2019 – Young Observers
The seasons are changing here on Earth as we approach the September Equinox, but have you ever considered that other planets might have seasons? Or not? And which ones? Did […]
Saturday 3rd August 2019 – Young Observers
A damp start to the evening turned into a wet night so we weren’t able to get any telescopes out this month. Instead we learnt about Voyager 2’s flyby of […]
Saturday 6th July 2019 – Young Observers
The sky was clear on a Young Observers night for the first time since April so we celebrated by opening the Monash dome and pointing the big 18” telescope at […]
Saturday 1st June 2019 – Young Observers
This month we took a look at the basic life cycle of stars. This included a video with a song about the birth of stars, and a worksheet with a […]
Saturday 4th May 2019 – Young Observers
We had rebel fighters, we had Darth Vaders and Boba Fett came looking for Han Solo, but he was off making the Kessel run in under 12 parsecs during our […]
Saturday 6th April 2019 – Young Observers
The weather was kind to us for our April meeting but only a small group of Novae gathered (it was the start of school holidays) to finish off some work […]
Saturday 2nd March 2019 – Young Observers
Unfortunately the March meeting did not go ahead. Firstly we cancelled on the 2nd of March due to the dangerous fire conditions and the ongoing Bunyip National Park fire event, […]
Saturday 2nd February 2019 – Young Observers
It was great to see so many familiar faces back at Young Observers on Saturday to start the year off, and we also welcomed some new ones. We weren’t able […]
