{"id":2268,"date":"2020-11-23T14:11:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T14:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/?p=2268"},"modified":"2020-11-23T14:47:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T14:47:57","slug":"gospacewatch-online-lecture-2nd-dec-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/gospacewatch-online-lecture-2nd-dec-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"GoSpaceWatch Online Lecture 2nd Dec 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Myths and Legends of the Stars<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">By <strong>Valerie Calderbank<\/strong>\u00a0BSc, MBCS, CEng, CITP, FRAS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"287\" data-src=\"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/ValerieCalderbank.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2269 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/ValerieCalderbank.jpg 320w, https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/ValerieCalderbank-300x269.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 320px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 320\/287;\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the Lecture<\/strong>: Are you interested in the different cultures around the world?\u00a0Many cultures have different ideas about society and this is also true for astronomy. As astronomers we know how the constellations divide up the sky in our culture. But what about other cultures? How have other cultures attempted to interpret the night sky. What legends exist in these cultures? This talk includes tales from the Aborigines, Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks and Chinese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GoSpaceWatch <a href=\"https:\/\/gospacewatch.co.uk\/wp\/speaker-programme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Speaker Programme<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/UraniaOrion.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2270 lazyload\" width=\"342\" height=\"490\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 342px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 342\/490;\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Wednesday 2nd December at 7:30 pm UK over Zoom<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tickets for the online lecture are \u00a33-00 from Helm <a href=\"https:\/\/helmtickets.com\/events\/6682\/online-lecture-myths-and-legends-of-the-stars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myths and Legends of the Stars By Valerie Calderbank\u00a0BSc, MBCS, CEng, CITP, FRAS About the Lecture: Are you interested in the different cultures around the world?\u00a0Many cultures have different ideas about society and this is also true for astronomy. As astronomers we know how the constellations divide up the sky in our culture. But what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Martin Baker","author_link":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/author\/martin_baker\/"},"featured_img":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/category\/uncategorized\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Uncategorized<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Uncategorized<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 5 years ago","modified":"Updated 5 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 23 November, 2020","modified":"Updated on 23 November, 2020"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 23 November, 2020 2:11 pm","modified":"Updated on 23 November, 2020 2:47 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NBna-AA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2277,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions\/2277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}