Displays & Trade Stands<\/p>\n
NEW!! FAS Astro Imaging Competition<\/a><\/p>\n The Legendary FAS Raffle.<\/p>\n The BMI is a 5 minute walk from Birmingham New Street station. Further directions soon. Click here<\/a> for details of local food, trains, parking etc for the convention (requires Adobe Acrobat). Map Credit: Google Inc.<\/p>\n 9.00 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Doors open to public \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Samuel George: The International Year of Astronomy- What’s Happening? 12.00 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Lunch – over lunch<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0FAS Imaging Competition Display in the lecture theatre 1:45 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0AGM \u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Aurora Books + Colin Pillinger will be signing copies of his new book \u201cSpace is a Funny Place\u201d<\/p>\n Please click this link for more details about the Imaging Competition<\/a><\/p>\n The 2007 AGM & Convention will once again be held at the BMI (Birmingham & Midland Institute) on 13th October 2007. Featuring: Talks by: Prof Mike Cruise, University of Birmingham Prof Colin Pillinger, Open University Prof Phil Diamond, University of Manchester Displays & Trade Stands NEW!! FAS Astro Imaging Competition The Legendary FAS Raffle. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"fasadmin","author_link":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/author\/fasadmin\/"},"featured_img":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Uncategorized<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Uncategorized<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 19 years ago","modified":"Updated 14 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 7 July, 2007","modified":"Updated on 30 August, 2012"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 7 July, 2007 6:46 am","modified":"Updated on 30 August, 2012 6:47 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NBna-4N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTickets: \u00a312 on the door or \u00a310 if pre-booked. Advanced tickets can be obtained from Callum Potter. email: president@fedastro.org.uk<\/a> or tel: 01684 773256
\nAdvance Ticket Booking Form (PDF)<\/a> requires Adobe Acrobat<\/p>\nProvisional Programme<\/h3>\n
\n9.50 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Introductory remarks from FAS President, Callum Potter
\n10.00 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Professor Mike Cruise, University of Birmingham-\u2018The Search for Gravitational Waves\u2019
\n11.00 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Short Talks<\/p>\n
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Jerry Stone: Running a public star party<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Robert Ball Library Tours<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n2:30 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Professor Phil Diamond: ‘Jodrell Bank: at the heart of the past and the future of radio astronomy’.
\n3:30 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Tea and coffee Break
\n4.00\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Raffle and Imaging Competition Result
\n4:15 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Professor Colin Pillinger- Space is a Funny Place: 50 Years and more of space exploration
\n5:15 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0FAS President: closing remarks<\/p><\/blockquote>\nTraders & Society Displays<\/h3>\n
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Practical Astronomer
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Altair Astro
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 SCS Astro
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Open University
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Martin Peston – “A User”s Guide to the Meade LXD 55 and 75 telescopes”
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Amateur Astronomical Spectroscopy by Jack Martin
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Faulkes Telescope
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sky’s the Limit
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cambridge University Press
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rocket Rights
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Birmingham University Astronomical Society
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Birmingham Astronomical Society
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Society for the History of Astronomy
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Society for Popular Astronomy
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chilterns Group
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 British Astronomical Association
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Letchworth & District Astronomical Society<\/p><\/blockquote>\nRaffle<\/h3>\n
Imaging Competition<\/h3>\n
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