Title: AAO Observer Number 122 (August 2012) Authors: Andrew Green
The newsletter of the Australian Astronomical Observatory. In this issue: SPIE Extravaganza; The AAO's Gemini High-resolution Optical SpecTrograph (GHOST) concept; First Cosmological Constraints from the 6dFGS Peculiar Velocity Field; Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): GAMA Announces Second Data Release; Evidence for Significant Growth in the Stellar Mass of the Most Massive Galaxies in the Universe; The 5th Southern Cross Conference: A Joint CASS/AAO Conference; GALAH: Preparing for Flight; and all the usual columns and news from the Observatory.