When the Sun Lost its Spots – 25th March 2004
In “When the Sun Lost its Spots“, Tony Sizer first gave us some basic solar observing tips, went on to explain the main solar features …
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.
AGM and Chairman’s Address – 26th February 2004
Our Annual General Meeting was followed, as is traditional, by a talk from our retiring chairman, Greg Smye-Rumsby. He gave us a talk on “The …
The Sun and the Weather – 22nd January 2004
Our first meeting of 2004 was addressed by Piers Corbyn and was about “The Sun and the Weather“. He started by explaining how the Sun’s …
Creating Space – 18th December 2003
Mat Irvine dodged the jams on the M25 and brought a selection of models along to our Xmas meeting to illustrate his talk, Creating Space, …
Harrison’s Clocks – 27th November 2003
Our President Gilbert Satterthwaite gave us a talk about the Longitude Problem, and in particular about Harrison’s Clocks. He illustrated it with many slides, and …
Robert Hooke – 23rd October 2003
Rob Warren from the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, gave us a talk about Robert Hooke. This year is the 300th anniversary of Hooke’s death, and there …
The Dynamic Universe – 25th September 2003
Roy Easto gave us a talk about The Dynamic Universe this evening, using animated computer models to show how dynamic systems in our universe develop …