It has been a fantastic month for the Astronomers at Macquarie with many of our research proposals being awarded funding.
Of particular notice is the award of "Macquarie Research Centre" status for our Astronomy group (dubbed MARC), in collaboration with several
external collaborators such as the Australian Astronomical Observatory, the Australian Telescope National Facility and Aboriginal Astronomy.
Together we can do more than we could as individuals both in research and education.
Turning back to your Association activities, the observatory is
closing for the year, after a reasonably successful semester with many families, scouts and school groups visiting our facility. We are still discussing the purchase
of a larger planetarium with which we aim to resume school visit activities. We are also discussing opening the planetarium on campus on a regular basis. We will keep
you appraised of on-going as well as new activities. As usual, thank you for your continued support and if you have any feedback on any of the activities, or suggestions in
general, feel free to e-mail us.