  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.
