Ken Budd Memorial Lecture – Saturday 15th October 2005
Saturday evening saw members gathering at Newstead Wood School to celebrate the Society’s 25th Anniversary and to host the third public Ken Budd Memorial Lecture. …
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Saturday evening saw members gathering at Newstead Wood School to celebrate the Society’s 25th Anniversary and to host the third public Ken Budd Memorial Lecture. …
Jerry Workman of Loughton Astronomical Society gave us a profusely illustrated account of some of the results returned by The Cassini Mission. He first showed …
Tony Sizer of the Orpington Astronomical Society and the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, gave us an informative talk about “The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram“. This diagram was developed …
Allan Bell of the Loughton Astronomical Society gave us a talk with the title “The Gravity Zoo“. In it he talked about tides and stellar …
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Neil Bone, director of the British Astronomical Association’s Meteor Section came to talk to us about “Meteors“. His talk included anecdotes about deck chairs, cameras, …
Our spring Members Evening was the occasion for three talks. The first, by Tony Buick, was an update on his earlier talk “My Camera and …