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• Click here to download the 2023 Annual Report
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• Report Back: Northern Starparty 7 to 9 September 2012
• Photographs: Northern Starparty 7 to 9 June 2013
• Images from Karoo Starparty 2012
• ESSA/ASSA viewing evening - Magaliesburg - 28 September 2013: Click here for more information
• Although we will not be able to see the 2012 Transit of Venus on 5/6 June 2012, the Pretoria Centre was very active during the 2004 Transit. Click here for more information.
• Johan Moolman did a full observation of the June 2004 transit - click here for the result...
• Click here for our effort on the morning of 6 June 2012: photographs courtesy of Johan Moolman
• And here is a summary of South African observations by Auke Slotegraaf...
• Meno Park Primary winners of our annual award
• An article on "Photographing the Moon’s parallax" by Barbara Cunow. This article will appear in a future volume of MNASSA
• Johan Smit in a live TV Interview: Click here to view the video
• We hosted a very successful ASSA Symposium during 2010. Download report in pdf format.
• Here is another report of the Symposium Report of the 2010 ASSA Symposium
• [ We are selling fleece jackets - click for information ]
• [ Awards to 2010 Menlo Park Primary learners ]
• [ Kambro weekend May 2009 ]
• [ Scopex 2008 news ]
• [ In Memoriam: Lorna Higgs - click to download obituary ]
• Slideshow of the Lunar Eclipse of 15 June 2011
• Report-back on the 2011 Karoo Starparty
• The 2012 Karoo Starparty
• From http://www.aavso.org/special-recognitions

  Jan A. Smit "...in recognition of his valuable contribution to the AAVSO International Database since 1986 of 19,027 visual observations of Southern Hemisphere variable stars; his contributions to minor planet occultation work; his mentoring of many younger observers in the art of variable star observing; and his public education efforts in introducing basic astronomy to the public during the open evenings and star parties at the Pretoria Centre of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa."

• The 2011 Menlo Park Primary book prize winners

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