Here you'll find brief reports of our meetings in 2000. 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.
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Dr. Alan Hart gave a talk entitled "The Earliest Sundial" as part of our Xmas meeting. |
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Greg Smye-Rumsby gave an entertaining talk entitled "What size is that?" in which he described the effects of scale, and illustrated the comparative sizes of objects of astronomical interest, often relating them to terrestrial equivalents. Two notable examples were of a satellite image of London overlaid on the Lunar crater Copernicus, and of a map of the Isle of Wight on the asteroid Eros. |
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The Second Kenneth Budd Memorial Lecture |
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Ewen A. Whitaker FRAS gave an interesting talk entitled "Fifty Years with Lunar Maps". This in fact ranged back to the time of Galileo, and was illustrated by slides of various maps, some more fanciful than others. Ewen's anecdotes about his involvement with NASA and the Ranger, Surveyor and Apollo missions in the '60s were fascinating. |
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Dr. Geoff Macdonald gave a talk entitled "The Miracle of Starbirth" in which he described the ways in which stars can be formed. |
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Peter Bull gave a talk entitled "A Window Through the Universe" in which he covered the basics of a wide range of astronomical subjects. |
Dr. Louise Harra of the Mullard Space Science Laboratory gave a talk entitled "Explosions from the sun" about observations made with various observatories, most of which are (or were) in space.
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Dr. Ian Jupp of DERA gave a talk entitled "The next generation of gamma-ray imaging telescopes". |
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