Keeping Up With The Volunteers

By Julie Matthews

A new intake for Night Sky Tours

We are happy to welcome our latest bunch of Night Sky Trainees to the Perth Observatory Volunteer Group. 19 amazing people have been offered places in our Introductory Training Course which begins in September.

Training includes some revamped presentations and practical training for 4 weeks, before they continue at their own pace being mentored during tours.

We also offer all our volunteer’s access to inspiring talks on the first and third Monday evening of each month presented by a wide range of speakers. Some of the topics we’ve covered so far are Searching for the Milky Way’s Twin, Female Computers, how to catch a Meteorite, and Mars Probes and Rovers. These talks are available to our volunteers live and through MS Teams.

Our next intake for Night Sky Tours will be in March 2023, but we are always looking for help for our daytime volunteering roles like Reception and School Day Tours.