The Solstice Quiz – 17th December 2009
As is traditional, the OAS Christmas meeting had no formal speaker. However, we did have a healthy quantity of Christmas food, and whe had the …
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 – 26th November 2009
This evening’s meeting was a home-grown affair, with two speakers giving us short talks on matters of interest.
Are We Alone? – 22nd October 2009
This evening’s talk, with the title “Are We Alone?“, was given by Robin Catchpole.
Who, What and When? – 24th September 2009
This evening’s talk was given by Chris Lintott, familiar to many as co-presenter of the BBC TV programme The Sky at Night. His talk, with …
Black Holes – 27th August 2009
This evening’s talk on “Black Holes“ was given by Phil Uttley of Southampton University. He gave us an interesting and well-illustrated talk which covered the …
Radio Astronomy – 25th June 2009
This evening’s talk on “Radio Astronomy: the Key to the Invisible Universe“ was given by John Murrell.