The Astronomy and Science Centre, located at Victoria Park, top end of Piper Street, East Tamworth (see map below), is open to TRAC members and the public:
Admission to the Centre is $5.00 per adult, school students and TRAC members free.
For enquiries about group bookings and other session times, please email or telephone the Club - click here for contact details.
Interactive displays including telescopes, minerals and mega-fauna, kiddies table, planetarium theatre and much more! Telescope viewings are subject to weather conditions. Please note that COVID-19 rules apply in accordance with current NSW Government regulations.
- Saturdays from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm for inspections of displays, including solar telescope viewings.
- Thursday evenings from 5:00 pm for our working group meetings, including telescope viewings. Every third Thursday of the month is a 'Tech Night' with a focus on a particular topic.
- The first Saturday of each month (apart from January) for TRAC's Full Event Nights from 6:00 pm The next will be held on Saturday, 4 February 2024. 6.00 pm - Social: Food Stall, plus drinks, tea/coffee (token charges). 7.00 pm - Astronomy presentation. 8.00 pm - Telescope Viewing (weather cooperating!). We'll have optical viewing telescopes and the 34 in Hewitt Camera looking at Galaxies, Nebula, Clusters, Comets etc. Don't forget to bring a jacket (summer evenings can still become pretty cool) and mosquito repellant.
- Every third Sunday of the month from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm along with the Tamworth and District Model Engineers miniature railway public running days.
Admission to the Centre is $5.00 per adult, school students and TRAC members free.
For enquiries about group bookings and other session times, please email or telephone the Club - click here for contact details.
Interactive displays including telescopes, minerals and mega-fauna, kiddies table, planetarium theatre and much more! Telescope viewings are subject to weather conditions. Please note that COVID-19 rules apply in accordance with current NSW Government regulations.
