Newbury Astronomical Society

• October 2020 Main Meeting - Tony Bell

  The next NAS zoom meeting on Friday the 2nd of October at 7:30pm will be given by Professor Tony Bell. Tony is professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. He is a Senior Research Fellow at Somerville College Oxford.His research interests are in cosmic rays and high energy particles.

  The title of his talk is 'Astrophysics at the highest energies'.

  I hope you will be able to join us and look forward to seeing you.

  Ann Davies, Programme Organiser

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• September 2020 Main Meeting - Martin Ratcliffe

  The next Newbury Astronomical Society meeting on the first Friday in September is usually the first of the session. During the current situation we have been running Zoom meetings through the summer - very successfully. Booking speakers to give their talk on Zoom has meant I can go farther afield so NAS is now having our first talk from America!

  Martin Ratcliffe has agreed to give the talk on 4th September. As some of you may know, Martin was a founder member of NAS living in Newbury at the time. After university at UCL he worked at the Armagh Planetarium before moving to America. He continued to work in the planetarium business: designing, building, training and producing planetarium shows.

  He now lives in Wichita and is involved in developing astronomy education and public outreach. He has written 4 books and for many years had a monthly column in Astronomy Now magazine. He has written the same night sky column in the American Astronomy Magazine for 24 years and also contributed to other astronomy publications including the BAA Journal.

  Martin is going to talk about his own observations of planets via lucky imaging and describe how he does his image processing, something he says he is trying to improve upon. So I hope as many of you as possible will be able to join the meeting to say hello to Martin and enjoy his talk.

  Ann Davies, Programme Organiser

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• What's Up & Newsletter - September 2020

  By Steve Harris

  The September edition of the Society Newsletter and What's Up of items to see over the coming month are now both available to read from the below links. Featured this month is astronomy for beginners and the Summer Triangle.

  September 2020 Newsletter
  What's Up: September 2020

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• What's Up & Newsletter - August 2020

  By Steve Harris

  The August edition of the Society Newsletter and What's Up of items to see over the coming month are now both available to read from the below links. Featured this month are comets and meteors, particularly the recent Comet NEOWISE.

  August 2020 Newsletter
  What's Up: August 2020

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