Enjoy stargazing and maybe want to build your own telescope?

(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:

10h00: Barbara Cunow– Galaxies

10h45: Mike Gaylard - Radio Astronomy

11h30: Jim Knight – The Sun

12h15: Case Rijsdijk – SALT (South African Large Telescope)

13h00: Bill Hollenbach - Comets and Asteroids

13h45: Brian Fraser – Solar Eclipse

14h30: Trevor Gould – Meteorite Hunting in SA

15h15: Chris Stewart - Introduction to Telescopes

16h30: Dennis du Plooy - GPS overview

17h15: Dave Gordon - "Whats 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!