Members Evening – 25th July 2002
The Society’s President Gilbert Satterthwaite gave us an update on the “Digges” telescope. He worked on the possible optics for this scope with his friend, …
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.
Human Spaceflight – 27th June 2002
Dr Ian Crawford from the University College gave us a talk on “The Scientific Case for Human Spaceflight“. He outlined the highlights of the human …
Cassini Huygens – 23rd May 2002
Brijen Hathi from the Open University gave us a talk on the “Cassini Huygens mission“. He described in some detail the instruments on the Huygens …
Destination Mars – 25th April 2002
Dr. John Mason dashed up from Chichester to give us an enthusiastic and informative talk entitled “Destination Mars“, profusely illustrating it with slides, and including …
Members Evening – 28th March 2002
Our Members Evening included lavishly illustrated talks by Mike McRoberts and Paul Whitmarsh about their CCD cameras. Sue Peters and Mirriam Harries discussed the use …
AGM and Chairman’s Address – 28th February 2002
After the Annual General Meeting business was concluded, our chairman Greg Smye-Rumsby demonstrated the Society’s website.
Astrophotography – 24th January 2002
Robin Scagell stepped in at short notice and gave a talk about “Astrophotography“. This he illustrated with many slides, and a fascinating array cameras, lenses …