Member Competition - Win a Star Scratch Map!
Mon, 22 May
|Online Competition
LEXSA Members can enter to win 1 of 2 Star Scratch Maps!
Time & Location
22 May 2023, 7:00 am AEST – 28 May 2023, 11:59 pm AEST
Online Competition
About The Event
LEXSA Members - you could win a Star Scratch Map!
To celebrate International Astromomy Day, we're giving our members the chance to win a Star Scratch Map! This map will uncover the hidden world of the night sky, as you scratch away the surface to reveal the gorgeous stars of both the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere.
International Astromomy Day was started in 1973 by Doug Berger, the then president of the Astronomical Association of Northern California. Originally, the day was celebrated by setting up telescopes in urban locations in order to make space more accessible to everyone. It's now celebrated within different groups and organisations with
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