28 September 2022: The Evolution, Diversity and Habitability of Exoplanets – Dr Edward Gillen
With over 5000 Exoplanets already identified, it is possible to see patterns in the data and to begin to speculate on whether our solar system …
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.
24 August 2022: Colouring the Sky – Nature’s Cathode Ray Tube
Once simply a source of awe and wonder for the ancients, terrestrial aurorae are also indications of the level of emissions from the sun – …
27 July 2022: The Birth of the Solar System
Are we unique in the universe? Our speaker on Wednesday 27 July, Dr Radmila Topalović, posed the question during her fascinating review of how our …
22 June 2022: Atoms, Photons and the Nebulium Affair
Our own Tony Sizer presented the lecture, which had been rescheduled due to the indisposition of the advertised speaker. Tony opened by explaining that the …
The Sun and Climate Change
Synopsis of lecture entitled The Sun and Climate Change given by Dr Robin Catchpole at the April 2022 meeting of the Orpington Astronomical Society Robin …
Beneath the Night: How the stars have shaped the history of humankind
In March, Taurus the Bull starts to dominate the southern sky. Dr Stuart Clark’s illustrated talk to the Society in late March kept returning to …
The One Pixel Camera and the Edge of the Universe
OAS Society Talk ~ July 2021 ~ Dr Matthew Bothwell A report by Andrew Ramsay It is not often that members of the OAS are …