Quiz Evening – 21st December 2006
Plenty of snacks and beverages were provided by members. Tony Buick showed us the movie clips he’d not been able to show at the previous …
Meetings Reports
We meet every month, usually on the fourth Thursday of the month, (the December meeting will generally be on the third Thursday). Meetings start no earlier than 7:30pm and end before 10:00pm. Here you’ll find brief reports of many of our meetings. In these we try to include any web links or other pointers to further information that were provided by the speaker at the meeting. If you were at one of our meetings and would like to correct or expand the report relating to it then please email our webmaster.
Members Evening – 23rd November 2006
Gilbert Satterthwaite gave the first talk of the evening on “Airy’s Altazimuth Telescope“. This instrument was installed at Greenwich by Airy, and was used very …
Ghosts and Poltergeists – 26th October 2006
Tony Sizer gave us a seasonal talk on “Ghosts and Poltergeists“. The astronomical ghosts he mentioned mostly turned out to be optical effects mis-interpreted by …
Journeying into the Unknown – 28th September 2006
Glyn Collinson of the Mullard Space Science Laboratory gave us an interesting and well-received talk titled “Solar Orbiter – Journeying into the Unknown“ about the …
Deep Sky Imaging – 24th August 2006
At this evening’s Members Evening, Mike McRoberts and Chris Suddell gave us an illustrated talk on the business of “Deep Sky Imaging”. First Mike, who’d …
Cosmology – 27th July 2006
Roger O’Brien’s talk on “Cosmology“ was a conversational journey from the Steady State Theory to the Big Bang Theory, with reference to the discovery of …
Spectroscopy – 22nd June 2006
Jack Martin made use of slides, laser pointers, and diffraction gratings to illustrate his talk on “Spectroscopy“. By shining both a green and a red …