The Planets – 28th August 2003
At our first Public Meeting for National Astronomy Week, Greg Smye-Rumsby gave us a talk about the planets, with particular emphasis on Mars, as it …
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 – 24th July 2003
Another Members Evening started with Greg Smye-Rumsby giving us a quick overview of the results obtained from the Time Team Big Dig at the site …
Planetary Nebulae – 26th June 2003
This month’s talk, about “Planetary Nebulae“ was given by Owen Brazell. He started by telling us about the early observations of planetary nebulae by observers …
Campaign for Dark Skies – 22nd May 2003
Bob Mizon gave us an informative illustrated talk about light pollution and the Campaign for Dark Skies. Light pollution is an issue that is beginning …
Members Evening – 24th April 2003
Tony Buick gave the main talk at this Members Evening. He described some novel approaches to astrophotography, complete with pictures of various mounts and attachments …
Galaxy Formation – 27th March 2003
Lisa Wright gave us an informative and well-balanced talk with the title “Galaxy Formation: Painting by Numbers“, illustrated using computer animations and a practical demonstration …
AGM and Chairman’s Address – 27th February 2003
Our Annual General Meeting was followed by two talks. The first, from our President Gilbert Satterthwaite was a short tribute to the Pioneer 10 space …