University of Oxford’s Department of Physics is celebrating 10 years of the Hintze Lectures on the 24th November 2020 at 5pm https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/2020/11/13/celebrating-10-years-of-hintze-lectures Details of the 20th Lecture here- https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/2020/11/24/20th-hintze-lecture-professor-victoria-kaspi-fast-radio-bursts With free registration via Eventbrite.
Deadline 4th November “The BAAO (BPhO) is running an online competition on Astronomy for schools for students from Year 9 -11. A cross between pub quiz and a small amount of knowledge of the night sky, it is intended to get students looking at the sky and to build upon some of the astronomy knowledge […]
The Vera C Rubin Observatory On Wednesday 11th November at 7:30 pm UK time. The Amazing Rubin Observatory Telescope boasts an 8.4 m mirror coupled with a 3200 megapixel camera taking 1000 pairs of exposures, each image the size of 40 full moons, recording 20 Terabytes of data – every night of its Ten Year […]
Are you curious about Life on Mars? Then this could be for you: The GoSpaceWatch National Astronomy Week Online Lecture. Open to All. Saturday 14 November 2020 at 7:00 pm: “The Clearest View” by Nicholas Booth chronicles Mankind’s search for life on Mars. For the first time in forty years, the world’s space agencies are […]
“My Journey into Astrophotography” by Roger Hyman. 21st October 2020 Roger will be giving his insight on how to start with some basic equipment using a tripod, camera and tracker. Setting up the equipment and producing photographs, time lapses and putting still images into a presentation to show others your work. Full details are on the Eventbrite […]
Persephone: Pluto System Orbiter and Kuiper Belt Explorer Wednesday 7 October 2020 at 7:30 pm UK Time By Dr Carly Howett: Assistant Director of the Department of Space Studies, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado, USA About the Lecture: Persephone is a NASA-funded concept mission study to investigate the feasibility of sending a mission to orbit […]
A virtual Festival this year, and runs from the 4th to the 9th September 2020 Their website The Astronomy programme runs as follows September 4 → 7:30 pm ─ 8:30 pm FINDING PLANETS AROUND OTHER STARS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9aONYE3beM&feature=youtu.be Moray’s astronomy club SIGMA hosts a visit from Prof. Ken Rice of the Royal Observatory Edinburgh and welcome you to […]
The very word ‘society’ implies a social connection between its members. We meet up for lectures, outreach and observing or astro-chats with friends over coffee & biscuits at home or a drink & crisps in the pub. The virus has put strict limits on most of those activities: Group meetings for lectures are impractical for […]