Programme of meetings for 2008/2009

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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

Mike Haynes

Oct 17th

Jerry Workman - Loughton Astronomical Society

Titan

Oct 24th

Club Night

Richard Mansfield

Oct 31st

Fraser Lewis - Cardiff University

Faulkes Telescope Project - Not Just Pretty Pictures.

Nov 7th

Club Night

Mike Cowles

Nov 14th

Dr Alan Longstaff - Royal Observatory Greenwich

Mars Revisited

Nov 21st

Club Night

Roger Steer

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

Tricia Brown

Dec 12th

Prof Diana WorrallUniversity of Bristol

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 16thDr Mark Hempsall - University of Bristol

An Ancient Asteroid Impact Event

Jan 23rd

Club Night

Aziz Alareedh

Jan 30th

David Whitehouse

Who really invented the telescope?

Feb 6th

Club Night

TBA

Feb 13thAGM

AGM

Feb 20th

Club Night

Nigel Tasker

Feb 27th

Prof Mark Birkinshaw - University of Bristol Vice President BAS

Johannes & Elizabetha Hevelius: frontline astronomy in the 17th century.

Mar 6th

Club Night

Simon Smith

Mar 13th

Dr Haley Gomez -Cardiff University

Smoking Supernovae
Mar 20thClub NightJohn Willis
Mar 27th

Andrew Lound - The Planetary Society

Calling the Cosmos

Apr 3rd

Club Night

John Meacham

Apr 10thGood FridayNo meeting
Apr 17thClub NightTony Smith

Apr 24th

Dr Chris Baddiley - Campaign for Dark Skies

Cosmology Today

May 1st

Club Night

Janine Derry

May 8th

Nick Hart - Cardiff Astronomical Society

Astrophotography

May 15th

Club Night

Mike Haynes

May 22ndAndy Burns - The Herschel SocietyJohn Herschel

May 29th

Club Night

Richard Mansfield

Jun 5th

Dr George Wilkins

Norman Lockyer and the Sidmouth Observatory

Jun 19th

Club Night

Mike Cowles

Jul 3rd

Club Night

Roger Steer

Jul 17th

Club Night - Apollo 11 40 years on

Tricia Brown

Jul 31st

Talks on Jupiter, Radio Astronomy, The Perseids, Giotto and making the best use of your eyes when observing.

Eddie Carpenter

Aug 14th

Club Night

Allan McCarthy

Aug 28th

Club Night

Nigel Tasker

Sep 11th

Club Night

Simon Smith

Sep 25th

Club Night

John Meacham