Meetings 2018 - 2019

14.11.19 --  Thu -- Nick Hewitt.  Presidential Address:  The Local Group.

12.09.19 --  Thu -- Gerard Gilligan.  William Lassell 1799 – 1880,
                                                                 Telescopes, Planets, and Drinking Beer

 August --       -- TBA

 11.07.19 -- Thu -- Jacob Kegerreis.  Planetary Giant Impacts:  How Uranus Fell Over.

 13.06.19 -- Thu -- John Cox.  TBD
23.05.19 --  Thu -- TBA

09.05.19 --  Thu -- Dr. Simon Preval.  White Dwarf Stars

25.04.19 --  Thu -- Prof Chris Done.  Extrasolar planets and Extraterrestrial life

 11.04.19 --  Annual General Meeting (Members only please)

28.03.19 -- Thu -- Dr. Stuart  Lumsden.  Star Formation

 19.03.19  --  Wed --  Stargazing for Guides/Brownies 5:30pm 213

 14.03.19 -- Thu -- Prof. Paula Chadwick.  Gamma-ray Astronomy

28.03.19 -- Thu -- Dr. Emily Brunsden.  The Music of the Stars

 22.02.19  --  Wed --  Stargazing for Scouts 6pm 283

14.02.19 -- Thu-- Peter Lloyd.  Celestial Coordinates, and Where is the Moon tonight?

 13.02.19  --  Wed --  Stargazing for Cubs 6pm 123

   6.02.19  --  Wed --  Stargazing for Scouts 6:15pm 163
 
24.01.19 -- Thu-- Dr. Susan Cartwright.  The History of Theories of the Solar System

10.01.19 -- Thu-- Alice Booth.  Exoplanets


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4.12.18  --  Tue --  Stargazing for Cubs 6pm 233

 28.11.18 -- Wed --  Stargazing for Cubs 6pm - Postponed due to wet weather

 22.11.18 --  Thu -- John Cox -- Introduction to Variable Stars─Do Science and have Fun

17.11.18 --   Sat -- Stargazing for Brownies 7:00pm 103

08.11.18 --  Thu --  Prof. Anne Green -- Dark Matter

 02.11.18 --   Fri -- Stargazing for Beavers and Cubs 6:30pm 313

 26.10.18 --  Fri --  Stargazing for Guides 7:30pm 113

 25.10.18 --  Thu --  Prof. Ian Robson -- Confessions of an Astronomer

 20.10.18 --  Sat  -- Stargazing for Cubs 7pm 153

 13.10.18 --  Sat  -- Stargazing for Scouts 7pm 163

 11.10.18 --  Thu -- Dr. Peter Lloyd --  An Introduction to Astrophotography
                                                                    Imaging the Solar System

 08.10.18 --  Mon -- Stargazing for Scouts 6:30 - 8:30pm 143

 06.10.18 --  Sat  -- Stargazing for Beavers 7pm 173

 27.09.18 --  Thu -- Dr. Catherine Walsh -- Planet Formation, Exoplanets
       
13.09.18 --  Thu -- Jonathan Lodge -- Travel Astrophotography

 23.08.18 --  Thu -- John Timmins FRAS -- An overview of the optical performance of various telescope types

 09.08.18 --  Thu -- Phil Snowden -- My 120s and Me

 28.07.18 --  Sat -- DN Festival -- Sir Nigel Gresley Square Doncaster

 26.07.18 --  Thu -- Mike Frost -- J. Horrocks, S Foster, N Nye - A detective Story

12.07.18 --  Thu -- Dr. David Benoit -- Astrochemistry and the Precursors of Life

28.06.18 --  Thu -- Colin Maskill  --  Quiz of the Year

 14.06.18 --  Thu -- Dr. Susan Cartwright  --  The Galactic Centre

 24.05.18 --  Thu -- Prof Mike Merrifield --  Galaxies in Many Dimensions

 10.05.18 --  Thu -- Dr. Simon Lindsay -- Mission to Mercury

 28.04.18 -- Stargazing scout camp cancelled

 26.04.18 -- Thu-- Peter Dawson -- Getting Pictures from Pluto 

12.04.18 -- Thu-- Annual General Meeting (Members only please)

23.03.18 -- Fri -- Stargazing for scouts 

22.03.18 -- Thu-- Prof. Milton Wainwright -- Evidence that Life is Continually Arriving to Earth from Space

Stargazing private party cancelled due to weather

23.02.18 -- Fri -- Astronomy talk Potteric Carr

08.02.18 -- Thu-- Dr. Ed Daw -- Gravitational Waves
 
25.01.18 -- Thu-- Jost Migenda -- A Big Detector for Big Questions

 11.01.18 -- Thu-- Prof. Clive Dickinson -- The Microwave Universe