{"id":59,"date":"2012-08-27T16:00:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T16:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/wp\/?page_id=59"},"modified":"2019-10-22T14:22:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T14:22:15","slug":"convention-2008","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/convention\/convention-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Convention 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2008 FAS Convention will be held at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ast.cam.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_self\">Institute of Astronomy<\/a> , Madingley Road,<br \/>\nCambridge, CB3 0HA, on Saturday 20th September.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The talks were:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Dr. Barry Jones (OU) &#8216;The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Life&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Nik Szymanek &#8220;Photographing the Night Sky&#8221; plus an eight minute film.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Prof. Andy Fabian (Cambridge)- The power of black holes<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Dr. Somak Raychaudhury (Birmingham)-&#8220;Einstein&#8217;s outrageous legacy- black holes, cosmic illusions and dark energy&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The trade stands included:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Society for Popular Astronomy<\/p>\n<p>BAA Campaign for Dark Skies<\/p>\n<p>Society for History of Astronomy<\/p>\n<p>Letchworth &amp; District AS<\/p>\n<p>Widescreen Centre<\/p>\n<p>Green Witch<\/p>\n<p>Science Replicas<\/p>\n<p>Cambridge University Press<\/p>\n<p>Aurora Books<\/p>\n<p>AWR Technology<\/p>\n<p>Nik Szymanek<\/p>\n<p>Jack Martin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2008 FAS Convention will be held at the Institute of Astronomy , Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA, on Saturday 20th September. The talks were: Dr. Barry Jones (OU) &#8216;The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Life&#8221; Nik Szymanek &#8220;Photographing the Night Sky&#8221; plus an eight minute film. Prof. Andy Fabian (Cambridge)- The power of black holes Dr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":50,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-59","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 7 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 27 August, 2012","modified":"Updated on 22 October, 2019"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 27 August, 2012 4:00 pm","modified":"Updated on 22 October, 2019 2:22 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","featured_img":false,"series_order":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9NBna-X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59","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=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59\/revisions\/172"}],"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=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}