Meteor Echoes – 26th March 2010
At our March meeting Allan Bell gave us a talk about Meteor Echoes, in which he explained how radio (and radar) could be used to …
Meetings Reports
We meet every month, usually on the fourth Thursday of the month, (the December meeting will generally be on the third Thursday). Meetings start no earlier than 7:30pm and end before 10:00pm. Here you’ll find brief reports of many of our meetings. In these we try to include any web links or other pointers to further information that were provided by the speaker at the meeting. If you were at one of our meetings and would like to correct or expand the report relating to it then please email our webmaster.
AGM and President’s Address – 26th February 2010
The Society Annual General Meeting was held at BEECHE, High Elms. After the normal business including officers’ reports and the election of the committee for …
Mars Exploration – 28th January 2010
The speaker at our January meeting was Doug Ellison. He gave us a fascinating talk about the exploration of Mars, with particular emphasis on the …
The Solstice Quiz – 17th December 2009
As is traditional, the OAS Christmas meeting had no formal speaker. However, we did have a healthy quantity of Christmas food, and whe had the …
Members Evening – 26th November 2009
This evening’s meeting was a home-grown affair, with two speakers giving us short talks on matters of interest.
Are We Alone? – 22nd October 2009
This evening’s talk, with the title “Are We Alone?“, was given by Robin Catchpole.
Who, What and When? – 24th September 2009
This evening’s talk was given by Chris Lintott, familiar to many as co-presenter of the BBC TV programme The Sky at Night. His talk, with …