Members Evening – 24th April 2003
Tony Buick gave the main talk at this Members Evening. He described some novel approaches to astrophotography, complete with pictures of various mounts and attachments …
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.
Galaxy Formation – 27th March 2003
Lisa Wright gave us an informative and well-balanced talk with the title “Galaxy Formation: Painting by Numbers“, illustrated using computer animations and a practical demonstration …
AGM and Chairman’s Address – 27th February 2003
Our Annual General Meeting was followed by two talks. The first, from our President Gilbert Satterthwaite was a short tribute to the Pioneer 10 space …
Amateur Radio Astronomy – 23rd January 2003
Our first meeting of 2003 was addressed by James Wilhelm and was about “Amateur Radio Astronomy“. His talk included a live demonstration of a PC …
Xmas Quiz – 19th December 2002
At our Christmas meeting, Orpington met the Croydon Astronomical Society in a head-to-head quiz hosted by BBC Blue Peter Astronomer, Anton Vamplew. Both teams were …
Members Evening – 28th November 2002
Our observing officer Jeff Harries gave us a short talk on the benefits of being able to recognise particular double stars, and using them as …
Unifying the Universe – 24th October 2002
Fay Dowker gave us an intriguing talk entitled “Unifying the Universe“ which ranged from Newton and classical physics via General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics towards …