Enjoy stargazing and maybe want to build your own telescope?

Own or want a telescope or related gadget, be it self-made or bought?

Just enjoy talking astronomy and telescope making?

Come to ASSA’s annual Telescope & Astronomy Exhibition!

22 Erlswold Road, Saxonwold - next to the Zoo

(Entrance Fee: Adults R5 Children R2, Senior Citizens R3)

The venue also caters for the not-so astronomically inclined members of the family: the Johannesburg Zoo is next door and the War Museum itself boasts a Gun Park with displays of 20^th Century artillery, tanks, planes and other interesting military exhibits.

The Auditorium talks & shows start at 10h00 and the presenters are:

Barbara Cunow– Galaxies

Mike Gaylard - Radio Astronomy

Jim Knight – The Sun

Case Rijsdijk – SALT (South African Large Telescope)

Bill Hollenbach - Comets and Asteroids

Brian Fraser – Eclipse

Trevor Gould – Meteors

Chris Stewart - Introduction to Telescopes

Dennis du Plooy - GPS overview

Frik le Roux – Eclipse

Dave Gordon - "What's up" in the sky tonight

There will be a wide range of interesting exhibits, including:

Self-made and commercial telescopes, a portable radio telescope, scopes with filters to look at sunspots and flares, a solar scope to project sunspots, a model of SALT, meteor display, special optics, astrophotography exhibits by amateurs.

There will be goods to buy:

Telescopes and accessories, back-copies of Sky and Telescope, T-shirts and Caps, do-it-yourself planispheres.

And competitions:

Try your hand at launching a water bottle rocket

Buy a Raffle to win binoculars!