Hi all

The IIS1K Thousand Member Competition has officially closed, as the winners were drawn on the 14th July 2006. The IIS1K Info Page has been udpated to show the winners, and a picture of the draw.

Thanks to the sponsors of the competition, and thanks to those who made the effort to participate and help celebrate the great milestone.

In other news, the site has had a redesign as you may have noticed. We now have advertising, and thank Australian Sky & Telescope for their continued support. You can read the reasons and expectations regarding the advertising in this forum thread.

A couple of other updates to the site today:

• A new How-To article, making a PST Scope Case from a Toolbox
• Revised article, The Structure, Proportions and Extent of the Universe
• New listing AWSA in the Clubs & Societies page
• Updated Image of the Week (soon i'll get around to writing the code to automatically change it)
• Added some new contributors to the Donation page (thankyou!)

If you've got anything you'd like to contribute to the site, please contact me! As always, I appreciate and look forward to your comments and feedback.