// Only Event level = 1 will be displayed on front page // Date, Event level, Event Type, Presenter, Topic var Events = [ ["19 January 2011", 1, "General Meeting", "Dr Wolfgang Kerzendorf, MSO, ANU", "A blast from the past. How ancient scrolls, ghostly apparitions and high-tech telescopes help solve one of astrophysics most important problems"], ["29 January 2011", 1, "Tardis night at the CAS Observatory, Mt Stromlo", "Meet at the boomgate at 8:15pm, weather permitting", ""], ["17 February 2011", 1, "General Meeting", "Our very own David Nicholls will tell us all about Observing - the world of managing a large telescope and trying to get results", "As an amateur one imagines that the world of professional astronomy is serene and well organised. One sees the published results and assumes that the data is presented in orderly form ready for interpretation, analysis and publication. Nothing could be further from the truth. This talk will be about the hazards and hurdles one has to negotiate before getting information out of the instruments that is in any way usable."], ["26 February 2011", 1, "Tardis night at the CAS Observatory, Mt Stromlo", "Meet at the boomgate at 8:25pm, weather permitting", "Bill Frost 6294 1611"], ["12 March 2011", 1, "Public Night, Scope Cafe, Mt. Stromlo", "Please arrive 7:00pm -7:30pm to set up", "2011 marks the centenary of the start of astronomical observation from Mt Stromlo. A series of joint CAS/MSO public nights is planned to celebrate the centenary. Nights have been picked to be as near First Quarter as possible."], ["17 March 2011", 1, "General Meeting", "Dr Charley Lineweaver", "Is there a general principle of increasing complexity in the Universe? I will summarize the views presented at the meeting. I will also present an overview of our research to quantify the available free energy in the universe and how that relates to increasing complexity."], ["2 April 2011", 1, "Tardis night at the CAS Observatory, Mt Stromlo", "Meet at the boomgate at 8:25pm, weather permitting", "Bill Frost 6294 1611"], ["8 April 2011", 1, "Public Night, Scope Cafe, Mt. Stromlo", "Please arrive 7:00pm -7:30pm to set up", "2011 marks the centenary of the start of astronomical observation from Mt Stromlo. A series of joint CAS/MSO public nights is planned to celebrate the centenary. Nights have been picked to be as near First Quarter as possible."], ["21 April 2011", 1, "General Meeting", "Dr Amanda Karakas, MSO, ANU", "The life and times of stars, from their beginnings on the main sequence through to their final dying stages."], ["30 April 2011", 1, "Tardis night at the CAS Observatory, Mt Stromlo", "Meet at the boomgate at 7:25pm, weather permitting", "Bill Frost 6294 1611"], ["19 May 2011", 1, "General Meeting", "Ms Michele Bannister, MSO, Trans-Neptunian objects in the Southern Hemisphere skies", "The small icy worlds beyond Neptune provide insights into the early history of the Solar System. The dwarf planets have been thoroughly surveyed in the Northern Hemisphere, but no extensive search has yet been completed in the South. I am using five years of observations at Siding Spring Observatory, and the new SkyMapper survey, to look for the largest and brightest of these trans-Neptunian objects."], ["28 May 2011", 1, "Tardis night at the CAS Observatory, Mt Stromlo", "Meet at the boomgate at 7:25pm, weather permitting", "Bill Frost 6294 1611"], ["4 June 2011", 1, "Dark Sky Night", "See Ephemeris for location", "See map in the Ephemeris"], ["16 June 2011", 1, "Annual Dinner", "Vivaldi Restaurant ANU", "Pre-booking required"], ["25 June 2011", 1, "Tardis night at the CAS Observatory, Mt Stromlo", "Meet at the boomgate at 7:25pm, weather permitting", "Bill Frost 6294 1611"], ["2 July 2011", 1, "Dark Sky Night", "See Ephemeris for location", "See map in the Ephemeris"], ["21 July 2011", 1, "General Meeting", "MSO, ANU", ""], ["30 July 2011", 1, "Cancelled: Tardis night at the CAS Observatory, Mt Stromlo", "Meet at the boomgate at 7:25pm, weather permitting", "Bill Frost 6294 1611"], ["30 July 2011", 1, "Dark Sky Night", "See Ephemeris for location", "See map in the Ephemeris"], ["18 August 2011", 1, "General Meeting", "MSO, ANU", ""], ["27 August 2011", 1, "CANCELLED Tardis night at the CAS Observatory, Mt Stromlo", "Cancelled due to telescope maintenance", "Bill Frost 6294 1611"], ["27 August 2011", 1, "Dark Sky Night", "See Ephemeris for location", "See map in the Ephemeris"], ["15 September 2011", 1, "Annual General Meeting", "MSO, ANU", ""], ["24 September 2011", 1, "Dark Sky Night", "See Ephemeris for location", "See map in the Ephemeris"], ["1 October 2011", 1, "Tardis night at the CAS Observatory, Mt Stromlo", "Meet at the boomgate at 7:25pm, weather permitting", "Bill Frost 6294 1611"], ["20 October 2011", 1, "General Meeting", "Assoc Prof Paul Francis", "Giant Space Blobs in the Early Universe"], ["29 October 2011", 1, "Dark Sky Night", "See Ephemeris for location", "See map in the Ephemeris"], ["17 November 2011", 1, "General Meeting", "Mr Roger Franzen, Australian Giant Magellan Telescope Technical Program Manager", "The GMT Project as a window on the Universe; project challenges and advantages"], ["26 November 2011", 1, "Tardis night at the CAS Observatory, Mt Stromlo", "Meet at the boomgate at 8:25pm, weather permitting", "Bill Frost 6294 1611"], ["26 November 2011", 1, "Dark Sky Night", "See Ephemeris for location", "See map in the Ephemeris"], ["17 November 2011", 1, "General Meeting", "MSO, ANU", ""], ];