Mike Meynell
The Clouds Strike Back: Final Solar Viewing of the Season – 31st August 2024
After three successful solar viewing sessions in a row this August, we were clearly due for a weather-disrupted one - and, naturally, the...
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Mike Meynell
- Aug 23
- 2 min
Spot On: Teamwork Shines Through: Public Solar Viewing, 23rd August 2024
One of the big highlights of our solar viewing season has been the incredible quality of our volunteers and the fact that we’ve been able...
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Mike Meynell
- Aug 17
- 1 min
Clear Skies and Solar Spectacles: Public Solar Viewing, 17 August 2024
We had another hugely successful solar viewing session on Saturday 17th August, with around 650 visitors taking the opportunity to...
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Simon Hurst
- Jun 28
- 2 min
The Flamsteed Summer Social 2024: A Recap
Ah, the Flamsteed Summer Social, or as I like to call it, “Four-ish Pints of Lager and a Not-So-Secret Garden of Snacks.” Before you...
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Mike Meynell
- Jun 23
- 1 min
Friends Reunited Under the Sun: A Bright Day at Greenwich - 23rd June 2024
Our solar viewing session at the Royal Observatory Greenwich on Sunday 23rd June was a hit, and not just because of the sunshine! With...
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Poly Philippou
- Jun 15
- 5 min
A Full and Interesting Day – Visit to Jodrell Bank – 15th June 2024
On Saturday 15th June, 34 of us headed up to Cheshire to visit Jodrell Bank for the day. Some drove to get there and many took trains and...
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Bobby Manoo
- Jun 10
- 3 min
Space Weather and Satellite Navigation Systems, by Professor Cathryn Mitchell
As the old saying goes, “All good things must come to an end.” This session marks the last in our Main Lectures for this season and what...
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Manish Patel
- Jun 1
- 1 min
Sunshine and Clouds: Public Solar Viewing - 25th May 2024
The Flamsteed volunteers set up their telescopes on Saturday, 25th May, for our public solar viewing event. Despite an overcast day at...
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Mike Meynell
- May 13
- 4 min
Kilonovae and high energy explosions - multi-messenger astronomy, by Professor Stephen Smartt
The Flamsteed Astronomy Society hosted an engaging evening at Queen's House that began with a news roundup by committee member Paul May,...
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Mike Meynell
- May 10
- 3 min
A Day of Solar Wonders: From Sunspots to the Aurora – 10th May 2024
The Flamsteed Astronomy Society kicked off its 2024 solar viewing season in spectacular fashion at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. On a...
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Paul May
- May 9
- 2 min
From Raspberry Pi to the Night Sky: A Workshop on Electronically Assisted Astronomy - 9th May 2024
Astroberry and StellarMate: Exotic Fruit or Your Sister's Boyfriend? No, they are actually two alternative pieces of software that can be...
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Adrian Challinor
- Apr 22
- 4 min
Our Accidental Universe, by Professor Chris Lintott
A report of Professor Chris Lintott's talk to the Flamsteed Astronomy Society on "Our Accidental Universe"
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Mike Meynell
- Apr 13
- 2 min
Under the April Skies: Final Blackheath Observing Event of the 2023/24 Season: 13 April 2024
As the April skies cleared on the evening of Saturday 13th April, our stalwart Blackheath observing volunteers gathered on Blackheath for...
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Simon Hurst
- Mar 21
- 4 min
Citizen Science – how you can get involved – 21st March 2024
So, some guy you may have heard of, Sir Isaac Newton, in a letter to his rival Robert Hooke, in 1676 wrote: "What Descartes did was a...
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Mike Meynell
- Mar 17
- 2 min
The Moon's Brief Cameo: A Cloudy Observing Session on Blackheath: 17 March 2024
In an act that balanced on the fine line between hope and audacity, we ventured into the unknown with our observing event at Blackheath...
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Paul May
- Mar 14
- 3 min
How to Kill a Galaxy: Black Holes, Noisy Neighbours, and Cosmic Car Crashes by Dr Tim Davis
The host, Paul May, welcomed everyone to our new main lecture venue for the next year - the magnificent Great Hall of Queens House. Not...
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Simon Hurst
- Mar 5
- 2 min
G.E.T: Session five Revenge of the clouds
You know what’s coming; resistance is futile; we live in London after all. The last session of the 2023 -24 season, despite some...
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Mark Jeffery
- Feb 29
- 1 min
HoA: Henrietta Levitt – the overlooked pioneer of distance, by Paul Wright
What a fascinating story about one of the unsung heroes of Astronomy. It seems that Henrietta, along with Annie Jump Cannon, Williamina...
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Poly Philippou
- Feb 24
- 3 min
A beautiful and surprising site – Visit to UCL Observatory – 24th February 2024
This trip to UCL Observatory on Saturday night was fully booked, and 32 members ventured to the far north of London to Mill Hill for this...
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Paul May
- Feb 12
- 3 min
JUICE, the ESA spacecraft mission to Jupiter’s icy moons by Professor Michele Dougherty
Astronomy homework Mike presented the Sky this Month to kickoff the meeting. Highlights include: the conjunction of the first quarter...
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