Please find attached details and link to the Free monthly meeting of Somerset Levels Stargazers which takes place on Wednesday 29th June. This Month we are joined once again by Bob Mizon F.R.A.S. with his talk Stars over the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Astronomy. We will also have our usual Night Sky guide for the Month ahead […]
Cosmology, Galaxies & Exo-planets Nottingham Astronomical Society are hosting the BAA One Day Meeting Held in the Maths and Physics Building, University of Nottingham,University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD Doors Open at 10:00 and the meeting will finish at approx. 18:00Closing date for booking is 22nd June 2022 Please book (£12 – £16 ) via Eventbrite […]
A two day webinar to discuss the challenges and mitigation of large numbers of Low Earth Orbit satellites. This will be a Zoom Webinar and held on the 7th & 8th of May 2022. Go to the Megaconstellation Page Free registration is available. Watch the website for more details.
An Evening with Scott “Kidd” Poteet. Commercial Astronaut, Mission Pilot, Polaris Dawn Scott “Kidd” Poteet describes the Polaris Program, Polaris Dawn, and how life experiences and inspiration led to his place on the mission. Polaris Dawn is a commercial crewed spaceflight mission with on a SpaceX Dragon capsule taking place towards the end of 2022. […]
Professor Belinda WilkesRoyal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellow, School of Physics, University of Bristol, UK Senior Astrophysicist & Former Director, Chandra X-ray Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge MA USA This lecture is sponsored by The Friends of Pershore Abbey and will take place in Pershore Abbey WR10 1BB on the evening of 29th April 2022, at […]
Space Weather The next lecture from GoSpaceWatch – Wednesday 16th March 7:30pm The Lecture: The intimate, yet turbulent relationship between the Sun and Earth dominates space around our planet. We are familiar with one consequence of this interaction, through the spectacular displays of aurora, and other effects include currents induced in long distance cables, or […]
Prestwick Spaceport by Mick O Connor. Wednesday 2nd March 2022 at 19:30 hrs. This talk will outline progress being made at Prestwick to enable the conduct of spaceflight for small sat launch and possibly crewed spaceflight. A rocket carrying a satellite will be released from an aircraft much like the tried and tested Virgin Orbit […]
The Rambling Astronomer – previously The Astrognome and former Curator of Astronomy, Yorkshire Museum, York If your Society is looking for a talk, try the list below from Martin. Information sent in by Martin Lunn With gatherings seriously impacted by the pandemic, many astronomical societies are now using Zoom. I have been offering talks in […]