<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">The annual astronomy and telescope event – ScopeX – will be held at the Military Museum in Saxonwold on Saturday 13 September from 9am to 9pm.</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;
background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">It is organised by amateur astronomers and telescope makers and is currently celebrating its 13<sup class="" style="">th</sup> year. Other than commercial telescopes, cameras and related equipment to buy at special prices, we always host a number of lectures in the J.C. Lemmer Auditorium.</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px !important;
margin-bottom: 0px !important;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">10h30 : "Gaia Space Telescope - Status and Challenges" by William O’ Mullane, Gaia Mission Manager</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">(</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Gaia is a mission designed and operated by the ESA (European Space Agency) and is tasked to accurately plot 1 billion stars in our Milky Way Galaxy using 106 CCDs, 938 million pixels)</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New
Roman', serif;" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">12pm "The Radio Astronomy Road to South Africa" by Francois Kapp, SKA</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">2pm "SA’s involvement in
international space science missions from Rosetta to CubeSats" by Prof Herman Steyn, Stellenbosch University </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">3pm " Observations of Near-Earth Asteroids and the Impact Hazard to Earth" by Dr Henry Throop, Univ Pretoria & PSI, Tucson</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">(Dr Throop is a Senior Scientist with the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona,
USA working with the New Horizons mission currently en route to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. He was also a co-discoverer of Styx one of Pluto's moons)</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Other lectures include "Building a geodesic dome for an observatory" and for the photographers "How to succeed at astrophotography.</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> </span></div><div class=""
style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">There is a ton of stuff to see and do other than the above including a raffle for a very nifty computerised telescope and a DSLR camera. </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">We round the day off with an evening of stargazing using many of the telescopes on display during the day.</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px
!important;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Please visit our website ScopeX.co.za for further info if needed.</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New
Roman', serif;" class="">Jerome Jooste</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Chair ASSAJhb</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">072 985 8764</span></div><div class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div></div></body></html>