14 December 2020
Dr. Steve Barrett: ‘Star of Bethlehem’
A talk by Dr. Steve Barrett, University of Liverpool
To view the slides from the presentation please click here. (PDF opens in a new window)
A video of the talk can be viewed below.
09 November 2020
Professor Ivan Baldry: ‘Galaxy Populations and the Colour of the Universe’
A talk by Professor Ivan Baldry, Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University
A video of the talk can be viewed below.
12 October 2020
Dr. Chris Arridge: ‘The JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) Mission to Jupiter and Ganymede’
A talk by Dr. Chris Arridge, Royal Society Research Fellow and Reader in Planetary Physics, Department of Physics, Lancaster University.
A video of the talk can be viewed below.
14 September 2020
Dr. Chris Wareing: ‘Filaments, Feedback and forming the Rosette’
A talk by Dr. Chris Wareing, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Leeds. If you would like to see a video of the talk please contact the society.
13 July 2020
Steve Hurley: ‘SETI and the Rare Earth Hypothesis’
A video of the talk can be viewed below.
For further information please visit Steve’s blog here. There is also a kindle e-book by Steve which can be purchased here.
8 June 2020
Dr. Licia Ray (Lancaster University):
‘Auroral Emissions Through the Solar System’
A video of the talk can be viewed below.
11 May 2020
Boyd Bowdish & Andrew Bradshaw:
‘The World’s Biggest Digital Camera and why the StarLink Programme is a significant Issue for it …’
‘How we look at Space and Time at VRO’ & ‘Sudden StarLink Syndrome’ An overview of the work of The Vera Rubin Observatory (with its 27-ft (8.4-m) mirror telescope and 3200 megapixel camera) given by Boyd Bowdish (How we look at Space and Time at VRO) followed by a further presentation on the effects on VRO data caused by the StarLink satellite constellation (Sudden StarLink Syndrome) by Andrew Bradshaw. Our first intercontinental talk by guest speakers from the USA and an exclusive first for our society here in the UK using Zoom video conferencing.
A video of the talk can be viewed below.
To view the slides from the first presentation ‘How we look at Space and Time at VRO’ please click here. (PDF opens in a new window)
To view the slides from the second presentation ‘Sudden StarLink Syndrome’ please click here. (PDF opens in a new window)
09 March 2020
Pauline Norris: ‘The Ancient Egyptians and their Astronomy’
A talk by Pauline Norris
10 February 2020
Dr. Rene Breton: ‘A Hitchhikers Guide to Black Holes’
A talk by Dr. Rene Breton (University of Manchester)
13 January 2020
Martin Kessel: ‘Introduction to Astrophotography’
To see Martin’s website please click here
To see Martin’s Flickr album please click here
09 December 2019
Dr. Paul Connolly (University of Manchester): ‘Saturn’s Hexagon’
11 November 2019
Professor Matthew Cobb (University of Manchester): ‘Alien Life in the Universe’
14 October 2019
Steve Hurley: ‘Dark Matter & Dark Energy’
A talk given to the society on Monday, 14 October 2019
To see Steve’s blog spots on these subjects please click here for Dark Matter and here for Dark Energy
09 September 2019
Dr. Steve Barrett: ‘The Great Moon Hoax’
A talk given to the society on Monday, 09 September 2019
To view the presentation handout please click here
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