April 2023: Astronomical Oddities
The history of astronomy is littered with misunderstandings, misconceptions and downright frauds. Tony Robert’s review of some of these made for an entertaining evening. Tony …
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.
The history of astronomy is littered with misunderstandings, misconceptions and downright frauds. Tony Robert’s review of some of these made for an entertaining evening. Tony …
Dr Adam Masters is a space and planetary scientist with the Space and Atmospheric Physics Group at Imperial College, London. His research programme focuses on …
For most people not brought up on a diet of post-war sci-fi literature the seminal movie “2001” would be their first and most vivid contact …
Presenters: Carole Pope and Roberto Botero (OAS members and imagers) Carole and Roberto gave a joint talk on Astrophotography, what sort of equipment is needed, …
Barry Kellett works at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) which carries out world class science research and technology development. RAL Space has been involved in …
With over 5000 Exoplanets already identified, it is possible to see patterns in the data and to begin to speculate on whether our solar system …
Once simply a source of awe and wonder for the ancients, terrestrial aurorae are also indications of the level of emissions from the sun – …