Our October meeting was addressed by Brendan Owens (Royal Observatory, Greenwich), who gave us a talk with the title Solar Secrets: Understanding our Star, the Sun. Miriam writes: We were given a whistle-stop tour of the Sun covering sun spots, … Continue reading
Our August meeting was addressed by Alan Aylward (UCL), who gave us a talk with the title Colouring the Sky. Miriam writes: We had an eventful start to this meeting as were locked out at BEECHE! Fortunately Carole was able … Continue reading
Our July meeting was addressed by Roger O’Brian, who gave us a talk with the title Dark Energy and Dark Matter. Miriam writes: Why don’t stars escape from their galaxies? Why doesn’t dark matter fall into black holes? Questions, conundrums … Continue reading
Our August meeting was a Members Evening. After the Chairman’s welcome and introduction, Mick Welham, our Observing Officer, gave us a slightly longer than usual observing report, including a selection of members’ images from the last two months. Then Carole … Continue reading
Our July meeting was addressed by Jerry Stone, who gave us a longer than usual talk about Apollo Hoax stories. In the first half of the talk he presented a number of pieces of evidence cited by various individuals in … Continue reading
At our June meeting Greg Smye-Rumsby gave us another version of his talk on Timings. … Continue reading
Tony Sizer gave a talk with the title When Planets Cross the Sun at our May meeting. In it he explored the history of the predictions and observations of transits of Mercury and Venus, explaining their importance in determining things … Continue reading
The speaker at our April meeting was Stuart Clark. He gave us a talk titled Sun Kings. … Continue reading
The speaker at our March meeting was Jan Drozd. He gave us a talk titled Earth, an Alien’s Perspective, in which he explained how Earth might appear to an alien looking for signs of life. … Continue reading
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 2010, our President Gilbert Satterthwaite gave us a third installment of his memories, entitled How … Continue reading
The speaker at our January meeting was Ian Robson. He gave us a talk titled Supercool Astronomy about discoveries made through observations using the sub-millimetre wavebands. He covered the history of this particularly challenging area of observational astronomy from early … Continue reading
Our December meeting was, as usual, a less formal occasion, with more time to chat.