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 […]

The Royal Society are hosting an on-line Zoom Webinar lecture. 9th February 2022 – 18:30 to 19:30 UK Local Dr Suzanne Imber (Department of Physics and Astronomy, LeicesterUniversity) will be giving her Rosalind Franklin Prize Lecture on the9th February on “Space weather and implications for life on otherworlds”. This public lecture will be followed by […]

January meeting will only be available on line and that for the time being is free to all.We of course hope to hold meetings in person starting with our February meeting of which details and fees will be given at a later date .We have an interesting and varied list of Speakers lined up for […]

2022 will take the UK into space from its own soil. Are you ready for the UK Space Boom. Join us at Go Space Watch for a look at the optimal alternative to the land based launch sites: The Sea! Paul Williams, Executive Director of Black Arrow Space Technologies will present our online lecture via […]

YouTube live-streamed event December 18th at 11am The James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to launch later this month. UK scientists and engineers have played a key role in making Webb and will be among the first to make amazing discoveries with it. Travelling a million miles from Earth, Webb will show us our Universe […]