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 …
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.
V2 – 26th September 2002
Murray Barber from Wadhurst Astronomical Society gave us an interesting and very informative talk entitled “V2 – First Dangerous Step into Space“. He illustrated it …
A Tudor Telescope on TV – 23rd September 2002
Gilbert Satterthwaite appeared in the BBC TV programme “What the Tudors Did For Us“, explaining the “Digges” telescope to the programme’s presenter Adam Hart-Davis. Another …
Members Evening – 25th July 2002
The Society’s President Gilbert Satterthwaite gave us an update on the “Digges” telescope. He worked on the possible optics for this scope with his friend, …
Human Spaceflight – 27th June 2002
Dr Ian Crawford from the University College gave us a talk on “The Scientific Case for Human Spaceflight“. He outlined the highlights of the human …
Cassini Huygens – 23rd May 2002
Brijen Hathi from the Open University gave us a talk on the “Cassini Huygens mission“. He described in some detail the instruments on the Huygens …
Destination Mars – 25th April 2002
Dr. John Mason dashed up from Chichester to give us an enthusiastic and informative talk entitled “Destination Mars“, profusely illustrating it with slides, and including …