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Flamsteed Astronomy Society |
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A09 May 11, 2007 |
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Programme of events 2006-7 |
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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 - 10.00 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 also be holding visits to the NMM Neptune Planetarium, and viewing sessions with the Great Equatorial 28 inch linked to the museum’s Evenings with the Stars programme, starting November 2006. We will confirm specific dates nearer the time. The Flamsteed 28-inch sessions run from 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm, weather permitting, following the public sessions. Flamsteed sessions are free to members and there is no need to book. At present the museum’s announced programme covers:
2006 November 2nd & 3rd December 1st & 30th 2007 January 26th February 23rd Remaining dates for 2006/7 to be confirmed
In addition, 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
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2006 June 25th, |
Sunday |
Visit to the ROG Reserve Collection at Kidbrooke and the ROG, with curator Emily Winterburn |
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September 3rd, |
Sunday |
1 pm start: Meridian Line Walk with Graham Dolan NMM, from Waltham Forest (Leyton Underground) to Greenwich Park. Hop on and off the DLR. Finish about 6pm after a demonstration of the Airy Transit Circle by Gilbert Satterthwaite. |
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October 6th, |
FRIDAY |
Annual General Meeting and an Eclipse Evening with Dr Francisco Diego |
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November 6th, |
Monday |
The Magic of the Sun — a lecture and a little magic from Prof. John Brown, Astronomer Royal for Scotland in the Great Hall of the Queen’s House, NMM |
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December 4th, |
Monday |
Flamsteed Christmas Party, Planetarium show, quiz, and Bookmart in Neptune Hall, NMM (Bookmart from 6:30 pm) |
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2007 January 8th, |
Monday |
Where did Mars’ water go? A talk by Dr Andrew Coates, Head of Planetary Science, UCL’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory |
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January 23rd |
Tuesday |
Beginners’ Telescope Workshop from 7pm with Dr John Griffiths, in the NMM Neptune Hall |
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February 5th, |
Monday |
Mapping the Skies in Medieval Islam — a lecture by Dr Emilie Savage Smith University of Oxford |
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March 5th, |
Monday |
Triumphs and Disasters in Space Science — a look round a lot of projects where things have gone really badly, or conversely, really well, a talk by Dr Eric Dunsford, formerly Head of Research at Rutherford Appleton Labs |
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April 2nd, |
Monday |
Habitable zones beyond the solar system — recent discoveries of other planetary systems — by Dr Martin Heath, Greenwich Community College & broadcaster |
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April 28th/29th |
Sat/Sun |
Visit to Jodrell Bank |
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May 24th |
Thursday |
Flamsteed Star Lecture — ‘Rings and Things: What Cassini did next’ by Prof Carl Murray of Queen Mary, University of London, and member of the Cassini imaging team. See our report on Carl’s excellent previous talk to us. |
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July 12th |
Thursday evening |
Reception and visit to the new Peter Harrison Planetarium and Weller Astronomy Galleries at the ROG |
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June/August |
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More Summer events — to be announced |