OAS Society Talk ~ August 2019 ~ Prof. Chris Lintott FRAS Being on the society committee can have its golden moments and for me there was one at this meeting. We have a growing inclusive membership, supplemented at this meeting … Continue reading
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OAS Society Talk ~ June 2019 ~ Tony Sizer Tony concluded his talk with the title, so perhaps I should start with the finish and end with the end ~ so, let me explain that! Our society Programme Secretary, Tony … Continue reading
OAS Society Talk ~ March 2019 ~ Colin Stuart FRAS The talk started with the noise of a rocket launch. Now noise is something we don’t normally have as a background to our talks but this presentation started with a … Continue reading
Click here for the slides from the talk given at the January 2019 meeting. … Continue reading
Anyone who has read Arthur C Clarke’s 1973 science fiction book “Rendezvous with Rama”¹ will have immediately thought of it when the discovery of ‘Oumuamua² was revealed in 2017. Some may have hoped, as in that book, that it was … Continue reading
I’m going to jump right in here and say that before the talk began I thought about the title and decided ~ yes, it was! Was I going to be right on the night was worth the wait to find … Continue reading
Our arranged speaker Jeff Wagg was unable to attend November’s society meeting, so Tony Sizer stepped in to talk on ‘The Vulcan Affair’. Tony started by taking us back to the 1878 USA eclipse and comparing it with the recent … Continue reading