{"id":61,"date":"2012-08-27T16:00:57","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/wp\/?page_id=61"},"modified":"2019-10-22T14:23:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T14:23:05","slug":"convention-2007","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/convention\/convention-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Convention 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>2007 AGM &amp; Convention<\/h2>\n<p>The 2007 AGM &amp; Convention will once again be held at the BMI (Birmingham &amp; Midland Institute) on 13th October 2007. More details to follow.<\/p>\n<p>The BMI is a 5 minute walk from Birmingham New Street station. Further directions soon.<br \/>\nTickets: \u00a312 on the door or \u00a310 if pre-booked. Advanced tickets can be obtained from Callum Potter. email: <a href=\"mailto:president@fedastro.org.uk\">president@fedastro.org.uk<\/a> <a href=\"mailto:president@fedastro.org.uk\">president@fedastro.org.uk<\/a> or tel: 01684 773256<br \/>\n<a title=\"Booking form (55kb pdf)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fedastro.org.uk\/FAS2007.pdf\">Advance Ticket Booking Form (PDF)<\/a> requires Adobe Acrobat<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Facilities map (403kb pdf)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fedastro.org.uk\/facilities.pdf\">Click here<\/a> for details of local food, trains, parking etc for the convention (requires Adobe Acrobat). Map Credit: Google Inc.<\/p>\n<h3>Programme<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Prof Mike Cruise, University of Birmingham<\/li>\n<li>Prof Colin Pillinger, Open University<\/li>\n<li>Prof Phil Diamond, University of Manchester<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Traders<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Aurora Books<\/li>\n<li>Practical Astronomer<\/li>\n<li>Altair Astro<\/li>\n<li>SCS Astro<\/li>\n<li>Open University<\/li>\n<li>Martin Peston &#8211; &#8220;A User&#8221;s Guide to the Meade LXD 55 and 75 telescopes&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Amateur Astronomical Spectroscopy by Jack Martin<\/li>\n<li>Faulkes Telescope<\/li>\n<li>Sky&#8217;s the Limit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also the Sir Robert Ball Library will be open for convention visitors over the lunch break.<\/p>\n<h3>Societies<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Birmingham University Astronomical Society<\/li>\n<li>Birmingham Astronomical Society<\/li>\n<li>Society for the History of Astronomy<\/li>\n<li>Society for Popular Astronomy<\/li>\n<li>Chilterns Group<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Raffle<\/h3>\n<h3>Imaging Competition<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2007 AGM &amp; Convention The 2007 AGM &amp; Convention will once again be held at the BMI (Birmingham &amp; Midland Institute) on 13th October 2007. More details to follow. The BMI is a 5 minute walk from Birmingham New Street station. Further directions soon. Tickets: \u00a312 on the door or \u00a310 if pre-booked. Advanced tickets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":50,"menu_order":13,"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-61","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 2:23 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","featured_img":false,"series_order":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9NBna-Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61","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=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions\/173"}],"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=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}