by Mike Meynell At our lecture on 29 October 2012, we looked at a number of easy objects to view in the night sky: Jupiter Andromeda...

Mike and Malcolm present the Strategy 81 members of the Flamsteed Astronomy Society gathered in the lecture theatre of the National...

The crowd gathers on Blackheath (Pic by Mike Dryland) Grey makes final adjustments to the 90mm Coronado (Pic by Mike Dryland) Around 140...

Charlton House Crowds at Charlton House Mike and Sumitra wait patiently for the clouds to clear Grey demonstrates the joys of an iPhone...

Dr Stuart Clark The 20 biggest cosmic mysteries made simple by Dr Stuart Clark This lecture was presented by Dr Stuart Clark, Senior...

Dr Richard Crowther This was a lecture delivered by Prof Richard Crowther who is currently in charge of International Relations at the UK...

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Dr Rebekah Higgitt Rebekah Higgitt began the evening with a talk entitled “Solar Observation at the Royal Observatory...

Greg has been delivering this super presentation for a couple of years now, including his appearance at AstroFest in 2009.  His...

Mike Dryland A complicated set of circumstances … prevented our scheduled speaker from coming to Greenwich and so Mike stepped into the...

Dr Robert Massey Robert Massey kicked-off the Flamsteed’s 10th birthday evening with an excellent presentation covering the full story of...

Dr Francisco Diego We were delighted that Dr Francisco Diego was able to be with us to deliver the first talk of the Flamsteed’s 2009/10...

Dr Marek Kukula Marek spoke to us in our final lecture meeting of the season.  Over the Millennia man has had many different perceptions...

Richard Dunn Richard Dunn began with a brief introduction to his new book “The Telescope: A short history” (NMM Publishing 2009).  The...

Doug Ellison “A crash course” and no mishtake! In the 20th century only about 32% of space missions to Mars were successful.  The...

Nik Szymanek at Greenwich [Pic Mike Dear] Nik Szymanek talked to us about astro imaging.   Nik is Britain’s leading amateur...

Dr Alan Longstaff (Pic: Mike Dryland) Alan Longstaff is a fiercely clever polymath. (He says ‘Jack-of-all trades’ — too modest!).  He’s...