Boyden Open Evening
6 August 2011
18:30
1. Observing Saturn and the moon as well as star clusters
2. A popular public presentation on binary stars and high energy events with reference to SoftX-ray and gamma-ray binary stars and the fascinating cataclysmic variable binary star AE Aquarii
Bookings
Yolandie Fick, FickY@ufs.ac.za , 051-4019751
R30 per car.
Refreshments for sale.
Presenters
Alida Odendaal, Brian van Soelen and Bosco Oruru
Abstract
Even though the unaided eye see hundreds of isolated stars in the sky many of these are actually systems of two stars. These binary stars are subject to fascinating dynamics and interactions between each other, sometimes leading to dramatic and high energy events . Various ingenious astronomical observations are necessary to accumulate enough information to unravel the nature of these systems and the processes taking place in them.
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