Main Meetings

Each month, the society has a guest speaker, who will talk about their specialised subject, followed by a "what's up" describing the sky that month and sometimes an additional 5-minute talk from a society member on something they have been doing recently. Free refreshments are available during the interval. During the year we will also be arranging observing evenings at appropriate times and places.

Note: if you have something that you would like to talk about in the 5-minute slot, please contact a committee member.

Meeting Details:

Important Notice: Due to the current outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19), all meetings have been moved to Zoom until further notice. Please contact georgesallit3@gmail.com to request an invite link. Please also keep checking here for further updates.

The meetings are held on the first Friday of each month from September to June and start at 7.30pm. Our 2019/2020 program is as follows:

Date	Topic
6^th September 2019	Spectroscopy — Analysing Light from the Stars - Dr David Boyd (Newbury AS & BAA)
4^th October 2019	The Colour of Science: Hyperspectral Imaging for Astronomy - Dr Hugh Mortimer (RAL Space)
1^st November 2019	How We'll Live on Mars - Colin Stuart (Science & Astronomy author)
6^th December 2019	OJ 287 — The Mysterious Binary Black Hole - Prof Mark Kidger (European Space Agency)
14^th December 2019	Christmas Dinner: Astronomy & the Bottle; How the Alcohol Trade Funded Victorian Astronomical Research - Dr Allan Chapman (University of Oxford)
3^rd January 2020	Music of the Spheres - Members' Evening
7^th February 2020	Observing Venus - Dr Paul Abel (Leicester University)
6^th March 2020	Installation & First Light from a 350GHz Heterodyne Receiver at the Mexican Large Millimetre Telescope - Dr Nart Daghestani (RAL Space)
5^th June 2020 via Zoom	The Gaia Revolution - Dr George Seabrook (Mullard Space Science Laboratory) & 39th AGM
3^rd July 2020 via Zoom	Titan: A Candidate for Evolution? - Melanie Davies (Creative Space)
7^th August 2020 via Zoom	APODs (Astronomical Photos of the Day) - Bob Mizon (Commission for Dark Skies)
4^th September 2020 via Zoom	Adventures in Planetary Imaging - Martin Ratcliffe
2^nd October 2020 via Zoom	Astrophysics at the Highest Energies - Prof Tony Bell (University of Oxford)
6^th November 2020 via Zoom	Rebel Star: The Sun's Greatest Mysteries - Colin Stuart
4^th December 2020 via Zoom	Accrete, Accrete, Accrete... Bang! (And Repeat): The Remarkable Recurrent Novae - Dr Matt Darnley (Liverpool John Moores University)

We also offer an ICS Calendar file of all the meetings (main & beginners) of the session to add to your phone or email client — click here to download.