Welcome to the home page of the New Astronomers’ Group (NAG)

The New Astronomers' Group is an introductory course to: 1) Amateur Astronomy 2) Science of Astronomy 3) History of Astronomy.
Formed as an outreach programme of the Astronomical Society of Victoria (ASV) for new members. It is conducted as a monthly meeting at it’s Clubroom in the Eastern Suburbs for Melbourne. Anyone is welcome to join the ASV. Once your ASV membership has been confirmed you can join us at NAG.

The business of NAG is conducted on the ASV main web-site. The following NAG links will tell you more about how NAG operates:-
What is NAG,  Meeting Calendar, How to Join.

Those who join the ASV soon find out there are many more benefits than just being able to join New Astronomers’ Group. A calendar of events awaits you.

There is a March Intake in progress. -- I have answered all the 'Join NAG' e-mail requests from my Inbox. If anyone is still waiting for a reply please send again as I don't have it. Members please visit the download page as I have updated with March notes. -- April notes will be posted around Easter. Sorry the observing notes are a little out of date -- I will deal with that after the March Intake has completed.

Site purpose

• To provide more details than is warranted on the general ASV web-site.
   
• The “Members” page gives you login access to course notes and other materials. While NAG is a 12 month course, the plan is to offer 2 years of web access. This will allow the download of any course notes missed so you can fill gaps in your NAG folder.
   
• The teaser page is exactly what the title says. For those considering joining NAG each month a sample of course material is available to sample what the NAG course might be like. Plus a few other items to help you get started observing the night sky.

More is planned for this site. Please come back for another visit.

Thank you... Ken
Section Director of the New Astronomers’ Group
Contact: nag@asv.org.au
Last updated: Sunday, March 31, 2013