{"id":197,"date":"2012-08-29T09:17:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T09:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/wp\/?page_id=197"},"modified":"2012-08-29T09:17:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T09:17:51","slug":"convention-1999a","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/convention\/convention-1999a\/","title":{"rendered":"Convention 1999A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 1999 Autumn Convention took place on Saturday 2nd October, in the Pippard Lecture Theatre of the <a title=\"Cavendish Lab\" href=\"http:\/\/www.phy.cam.ac.uk\/\">Cavendish Laboratory,<\/a> <a title=\"Cambridge\" href=\"http:\/\/www.knowhere.co.uk\/591.html\">Cambridge.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by <a title=\"Astronomy Now\" href=\"http:\/\/www.astronomynow.com\/\">Astronomy Now<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Programme:<\/h3>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>08.00<\/td>\n<td>Doors open to traders<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>09.00<\/td>\n<td>Doors open to public<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10.00<\/td>\n<td>Welcome from the FAS President, Pam Spence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>John Morton &#8216;The Chemistry and Evolution of Alien Lifeforms&#8217;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>11.00<\/td>\n<td>Coffee\/Tea break<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>11.30<\/td>\n<td>EAGM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Ian Ridpath &#8216;Asterisms of the Autumn Skies&#8217;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Andy Salmon &#8216;Moon-race, July 1969: the Luna-15 story&#8217;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>13.00<\/td>\n<td>Lunch<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>14.30<\/td>\n<td>Professor Malcolm Longair &#8216;The Origin of Galaxies and Quasars&#8217;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>15.30<\/td>\n<td>Tea\/Coffee break<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>16.00<\/td>\n<td>John Mason &#8216;The 99 Eclipse &#8211; how was it for you?&#8217;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>18.00<\/td>\n<td>Convention closes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Trade Stands:<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Astronomy Now\" href=\"http:\/\/www.astronomynow.com\/\">Astronomy Now<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Earth and Sky\/Fieldview\" href=\"http:\/\/www.earthandsky.co.uk\/\">Earth and Sky\/Fieldview<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"BAA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ast.cam.ac.uk\/%7Ebaa\/\">British Astronomical Association<\/a><br \/>\nMargaret Fisher, second-hand Astronomy books<br \/>\nSTSC (Science Schools)<br \/>\n<a title=\"AWR Technology\" href=\"http:\/\/dspace.dial.pipex.com\/awr.tech\/\">AWR Technology Ltd<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Graystel Software\" href=\"http:\/\/members.aol.com\/graystel\/index.htm\">Graystel Software<\/a><br \/>\nScience Quest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1999 Autumn Convention took place on Saturday 2nd October, in the Pippard Lecture Theatre of the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. Sponsored by Astronomy Now Programme: 08.00 Doors open to traders 09.00 Doors open to public 10.00 Welcome from the FAS President, Pam Spence John Morton &#8216;The Chemistry and Evolution of Alien Lifeforms&#8217; 11.00 Coffee\/Tea break [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":50,"menu_order":18,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-197","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"coauthors":[],"author_meta":{"author_link":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/author\/fasadmin\/","display_name":"fasadmin"},"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 14 years ago","modified":"Updated 14 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 29 August, 2012","modified":"Updated on 29 August, 2012"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 29 August, 2012 9:17 am","modified":"Updated on 29 August, 2012 9:17 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","featured_img":false,"series_order":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9NBna-3b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/197\/revisions\/198"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}