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Unfortulately, the planned 2024 SASI total eclipse tour has been cancelled. Apologies to those who would be disappointed by this announcement.

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The SASI 2024 USA Total Solar Eclipse (TSE) Tour is now up and running.


This is the fifth TSE Expedition that has now been formally organised by the Sutherland Astronomical Society Inc. (Sydney) SASI, since the 2022 Ceduna TSE observed from South Australia.


SASI only organises TSE Expeditions if they are favourable and have proximity to reliable transport and accommodation.


As well, SASI makes no fees out of these expeditions, they are very cost effective and are organised only to promote astronomy.


In past SASI TSE experiences, patrons have included SASI members as well as partners and friends and there was representation from 11 Australian astronomical societies that joined us at the ’17 USA TSE expedition. As well, interested members of the public, and their parties, have attended many of our Total Solar Eclipse expeditions.


There will also be sightseeing included. For this trip this will include the Johnson Space Center in Houston and sightseeing within Washington DC as well as the Air and Space Smithsonian Museum to name a few.
Please find the flyer for this TSE expedition as a link on this webpage.

Please see attached tour brochure for details.

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Last weekend (in October 2022) we welcomed our young amateur astronomers to attend SASI's junior sessions. Their curiosity about how the telescopes work and what our Solar system consists of made the sessions interesting and remarkable!

With the assistance of our teachers Dr Marina Levi and Craig Goulden, they learned about different types of telescopes and built accurate scale models of the Solar system.

We would like to thank SASI committee and especially the secretary for helping organise the event and our sponsor, Bintel, the best telescope shop in NSW for providing prizes for all junior explorers.

See the photos in our image gallery.