Program of meetings for 2008/2009
Click here for the programme in PDF format.
Click here for a map.
Click here for bus timetable from city centre and Temple Meads station.
These meeting all begin promptly at 7.15 pm please make sure you arrive in plenty of time
| 2008 | ||
| Date | Speaker | Title / Organiser |
Jul 25th | Club Night | Tricia Brown |
Aug 8th | Club Night | Nigel Tasker |
Aug 22nd | Club Night | Simon Smith |
Sep 5th | Club Night | John Willis |
Sep 19th | Club Night | John Meacham |
Oct 3rd | Dr Rodney Hillier - University of Bristol Vice President BAS | Looking at the Universe through Gravitational Lenses |
Oct 10th | Club Night | TBA |
Oct 17th | Jerry Workman - Loughton Astronomical Society | Titan |
Oct 24th | Club Night | TBA |
Oct 31st | Fraser Lewis & Vanessa Stroud - Cardiff University | Faulkes Telescope Project - Not Just Pretty Pictures. & Massive Stars in Binary Systems. |
Nov 7th | TBA | |
Nov 14th | Dr Alan Longstaff - Royal Observatory Greenwich | Mars Revisited |
Nov 21st | TBA | |
Nov 28th | Dr Robert Massey - Royal Astronomical Society | Imaging the Universe – A History of the Hubble Space Telescope |
Dec 5th | Club Night - BAS Christmas Party | TBA |
Dec 12th | What you see is what you get -how light time travel & special relativity affect our view of celestial objects | |
| 2009 | ||
| Date | Speaker | Title / Organiser |
| Jan 16th | Dr Mark Hempsall - University of Bristol | An Ancient Asteroid Impact Event |
Jan 23rd | Club Night | TBA |
Jan 30th | David Whitehouse | Who really invented the telescope? |
Feb 6th | ||
| Feb 13th | AGM | AGM |
Feb 20th | Club Night | TBA |
Feb 27th | Prof Mark Birkinshaw - University of Bristol Vice President BAS | Johannes & Elizabetha Hevelius: frontline astronomy in the 17th century. |
Mar 6th | Club Night | TBA |
Mar 13th | Dr Haley Gomez -Cardiff University | Smoking Supernovae |
| Mar 20th | Club Night | TBA |
| Mar 27th | Calling the Cosmos | |
Apr 3rd | Club Night | TBA |
| Apr 10th | Good Friday | No meeting |
| Apr 17th | Club Night | TBA |
Apr 24th | Dr Chris Baddiley - Campaign for Dark Skies | Cosmology Today |
May 1st | Club Night | TBA |
May 8th | Nick Hart - Cardiff Astronomical Society | Astrophotography |
May 15th | Club Night | TBA |
| May 22nd | Andy Burns - The Herschel Society | John Herschel |
May 29th | Club Night | TBA |
| Jun 5th | Roger Dymock - Director BAA Asteroids and Remote Planets Section | The Evolution of Asteriods |
Jun 12th | Club Night | TBA |
Jun 26th | Club Night | TBA |
Jul 10th | Club Night | TBA |
Jul 24th | Club Night | TBA |
Aug 7th | Club Night | TBA |
Aug 21st | Club Night | TBA |
Sep 4th | Club Night | TBA |
Sep 18th | Club Night | TBA |