the Astro Flyer is the monthly newsletter of the Shoalhaven Astronomers. Selecting the Issue from the list below will display that issue in a new tab. Once opened, the Astro Flyer can be read, printed or downloaded to your PC.
the Astro Flyer contains sections each month that cover current events and items of interest:
- ‘Observation Report’ by Andrew Wood
- ‘Astro Events’ by Frank Gross
- ‘Observatory Report’ by Mark Town
- ‘More Club Information’ by our editor Kaye Johnston
In addition there are often feature articles as listed below.
Issue |
Feature Articles |
| August 2017 | ‘The LMC “Blue Filaments”’ Harry Roberts Pages 13-14 |
| September 2017 | ‘The Trifid Nebula’ Harry Roberts Pages 15-16 |
| October 2017 | ‘Solar Snippets’ Harry Roberts Pages 14-16 |
| November 2017 | ‘Lunar Snippets’ Harry Roberts Pages 12-13 |
| January 2018 | ‘M42: Summer amid the Stars’ Harry Roberts Page 15 |
| February 2018 | ‘M42: Summer amid the Stars’ Harry Roberts Pages 13-16 |
| March 2018 | ‘M42: NGC3699: Planetary Nebula in Centaurus’ Harry Roberts Pages 14-15 ‘NGC5189: Planetary Nebula in Musca’ Harry Roberts Pages 16-17 |
| April 2018 | N/A |
| May 2018 | N/A |
| June 2018 | ‘Planetary NGC 3242. Hya’ By Harry Roberts Pages 10-11 |
| July 2018 | ‘Solar News’ Harry Roberts Pages 10-11 |
| August 2018 | ‘Solar News’ Harry Roberts Pages 12-13 |
| September 2018 | N/A |
| October 2018 | N/A |
| November 2018 | N/A |
| January 2019 | ‘M42 The Beginning: Orion’s “Sword”’ Harry Roberts Pages 10-11 ‘“Something Old, Something New” – Maury’ Harry Roberts Pages 12-13 |
| February 2019 | ‘SC24 Solar Minimum: Puzzling Times’ Harry Roberts Pages 11-14 ‘Nebulas in Orion H alpha photography’ Page 15 |
| March 2019 | ‘Sirius A and B’ Harry Roberts Page 12 |
| April 2019 | ‘NGC2207: a Galaxy Pair’ Harry Roberts Page 11 ‘‘Stellar Powerhouse’: the S Doradus ‘Nebula’’ Harry Roberts Page 12 ‘A Southern Challenge: NGC3195′ Harry Roberts Page 13 |
| May 2019 | ‘Large Magellanic Cloud’ by Harry Roberts Pages 10-11 ‘Solar News’ Harry Roberts Page 12-14 |
| June 2019 | ‘Large Magellanic Cloud’ by Harry Roberts Pages 12-13 ‘Solar News’ Harry Roberts Page 14-16 |
| July 2019 | ‘Lunar Craters’ by Harry Roberts Pages 13-14 |
| August 2019 | ‘Moon Watching’ by Harry Roberts Pages 14-15 |
| September 2019 | TBA |
| October 2019 | ‘On ‘Icy’ Shores: Sheepshanks’ by Harry Roberts Pages 12-13 |
| November 2019 | Urban Sky sketching ‘The Grus Quartet’ by Harry Roberts Pages 12-13 |
| January 2020 | The LMC A Mud Map3 by Harry Roberts Pages 15-16 |
| August 2020 | “Comet Watching” by Harry Roberts Page 12 “Nu Carinae: Central Region” by Harry Roberts Page 13 “All The Stars Aligned” by John Gould Pages 14-17 |
| January 2022 | “Solar Activity” by Harry Roberts Pages 15-16 “47 Tucanae” by Harry Roberts Pages 17-18 |
| February 2022 | “Solar Activity” by Harry Roberts Pages 11-12 |
| March 2022 | “Gems of the ‘Southern Canon” by Harry Roberts Pages 11-13 |
| April 2022 | “Mars, Saturn and Venus Conjunction” by Harry Roberts Pages 8-9 |
| May 2022 | “Mars, Saturn and Venus Conjunction” by Harry Roberts Page 10 “Photographing Sunspots using a Solar Filtered Digital Camera” by Andrew Wood Pages 11-13 |
| June 2022 | “Solar Observing” by Harry Roberts Pages 7-10 “Easy Lunar Photography” by Andrew Wood Pages 11-13 |
| July 2022 | “NGC5189: Planetary Nebula in Musca” by Harry Roberts Pages 6-7 “Exotic Spectra: Gamma Velorum” by Harry Roberts Pages 8-10 “Southern Gems: Jewel Box” by Andrew Wood Pages 11-12 “Wide-field Digital Astrophotography” by Andrew Wood Pages 13-14 |
| August 2022 | “Sinuous rilles: a visit to Rima Hadley” by Harry Roberts pages 8-9 “Book Review” by Andrew Wood page 10 |
| September 2022 | “Omicron Velorum Cluster IC2391” by Harry Roberts pages 9-10 “Remember Film?” by Andrew Wood pages 11-12 |
| October 2022 |
“Apollo 17 and the Taurus-Littrow Dark Mantling” by Harry Roberts pages 7-8 |
| January 2023 | “Solar Sprays” by Harry Roberts pages 7-9 “Review: Celestron Advanced Equatorial Mount and Tripod” by Andrew Wood pages 10-11 |
| February 2023 | “Exotic Spectra: Gamma Velorum” by Harry Roberts pages 7-9 “COMET 2022 E3 (ZTF)” by John Gould & Andrew Wood pages 10-11 |
| April 2023 | “Rümker Sunrise” by Harry Roberts Pages 12-13 “Planetary Nebula NGC 4361” by Andrew Wood Page 14 |
| May 2023 | “Wide Field Astrophotography” by Andrew Wood Page 5 |
| June 2023 | “Our Observatory Telescopes” by Andrew Wood Page 8-9 |
| July 2023 | “30 Doradus Nebula” by Harry Roberts Pages 10-11 |
| August 2023 | “Wolf Revisited” by Harry Roberts Pages 8-9 |
| September 2023 | “J. Herschel: a crater too far” by Harry Roberts Pages 8-9 |
| October 2023 | “30 Doradus Nebula” by Harry Roberts Pages 7-8 |
| November 2023 | |
| February 2024 | “NGC5189: Planetary Nebula in Musca” by Harry Roberts Pages 12-13 |