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Programme of Events 2009/10 Page 1 of 2 |
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Meetings will start with announcements and a chat about topics of interest by a Flamsteed member before the main lecture or event of the evening. Unless otherwise stated all meetings will be in the Lecture Theatre of the National Maritime Museum (NMM) and will run from 7.15 - 9:45 p.m. Members are welcome to arrive from 6.30 pm for a cup of coffee and to meet other members before the meetings start. |
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P019 May 11, 2010 |
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We will also be announcing external visits to places of special interest for the Society, and organising more meetings in the Peter Harrison Planetarium. We plan to stage one or two workshops to help beginners on how to use a starter telescope and/or looking at more advanced techniques for experienced observers. There will be viewing sessions for Flamsteed members with the Great Equatorial 28 inch linked to the museum’s Evenings with the Stars programme. Sessions are weather-dependent and will be cancelled unless the weather is clear. There is a limited number of free places for Flamsteed members at these sessions and advance booking is essential. Please watch the home page for details. We are planning further training sessions for members who would like to help run public solar observing sessions using the Hydrogen-alpha Coronado telescope, and also anyone interested in being trained to assist the ROG astronomers at sessions with the 28-inch. If you would like to attend either of these types of training and haven’t registered your interest, please e-mail Mike via the Contact Us page. Please watch the website home page for Pub evenings at the Hare & Billet, Blackheath. For Observing Meetings please refer to the Observing Programme E&OE. All events are subject to confirmation. The Flamsteed Astronomy Society reserves the right to make changes and cancellations to the programme without notice.
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2010 Programme continued over/ |
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October 16th |
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Complete — 2009 September 28th |
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Flamsteed Tenth Anniversary Champagne Reception and a short talk by Jane Bendall and Eddie Yeadon, founder members, “10 Glorious Years — a short history of the Flamsteed” followed by The Moon: Exploring our nearest neighbour by Dr Robert Massey Robert is Press Officer of the Royal Astronomical Society and previously held the post of Public Astronomer at the ROG. He has appeared many times on TV and radio to explain various aspects of modern astronomy and space exploration. |
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The Society’s Annual General Meeting followed by ‘Aliens! Could Darwin work on the distant worlds of Galileo? by Dr Francisco Diego Francisco is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Vice-President of the UK Association for Astronomy Education, and a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. |
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November 2nd
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Searching for life on other Planets by Prof. Ian Morison (Cancelled) Ian holds the prestigious post of Gresham Professor of Astronomy and he is a past President of the Society for Popular Astronomy. He is based at Jodrell Bank and teaches astronomy at Manchester University. He will also give us an update on current work at Jodrell Bank. |
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May 17th Monday |
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The VISTA project by Prof Jim Emerson QMUL VISTA (the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) is the world’s largest telescope dedicated to mapping the sky in infrared light and is now revealing a completely new view of the southern sky. |
