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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.
We will be announcing one or two external visits to places of special interest for the Society, and organising more meetings in the new Peter Harrison Planetarium. In addition there will be viewing sessions with the Great Equatorial 28 inch linked to the museum’s Evenings with the Stars programme, starting November 2008.
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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Programme of Events 2008/9 |
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A01 June 24, 2008 |
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2008 July 20th, |
Sunday |
Flamsteed Summer Event: 11:45 to 12:45 Workshop, How to build your own binocular mount, run by Flamsteed member Rob Willett 12:45 to 13:45 A picnic in the park — Hare & Billet Pub if wet 14:00 to 14:40 Peter Harrison Planetarium show ‘Star Life’ |
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August 1st, |
Friday |
Partial eclipse of the Sun: 09:20 to 11:20 approx BST. Viewing from the courtyard of the Royal Observatory Greenwich |
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September 26th, |
Friday |
The Flamsteed Annual General Meeting, followed by Decoding Meteorites, a talk by Dr Alan Longstaff, ROG astronomer, Associate Lecturer in Earth Sciences, Open University, science writer, and consultant. |
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October 13th, |
Monday |
The Antikythera Mechanism, a lecture by Mike Edmunds, Professor of Astrophysics at Cardiff University, and member of the Science and Technology Facilities Research Council. [ BBC Report / Wikipedia Report] |
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November 3rd, |
Monday |
Photographing the Night Sky a talk by Nik Szymanek, Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire’s Science and Technology Research Institute.
Also the Annual Flamsteed Book Sale, from 6:30pm before the talk, continuing afterwards |
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December |
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To be announced |
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2009 January 5th, |
Monday |
The Sun Kings by Dr Stuart Clark, science journalist and author. Stuart will be signing his book at the end of the meeting. |
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February 2nd, |
Monday |
The Search for Life on other Planets, a talk by Ian Morison, Gresham Professor of Astronomy, and Jodrell Bank Observatory, plus an update on work and plans at Jodrell Bank. |
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March 2nd, |
Monday |
) ) March to May meetings to be announced ) |
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April 6th,
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Monday |
) 2009 is International Year of Astronomy in celebration of Galileo’s ) use of the telescope for astronomical observation in 1609. ) We will be joining with other departments of the Royal Observatory |
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May 11th, |
Monday |
) in several shared events not yet finalised ) More later ) |
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June/August |
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More Summer events — to be announced |
