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MEETINGS
FOR 2010
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Date |
Subject |
Speaker |
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Sat January 9th |
Annual Open Day 10.30am - 4.00pm |
Eccleshill Library |
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January 11th |
Annual General meeting followed by a film |
Eccleshill Library |
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Jan 25th |
"The Theory of Relativity" |
David Cook, Harrogate AS |
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February 8th |
"Observing with Binoculars"! |
Melvyn Taylor, Leeds AS |
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February 22nd |
"Catadioptric Telescopes and their Optics" |
Barry pemberton, Orion Optics |
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March15th |
"Black Holes: Monsters of the Universe" |
Ryan Hickox, Harvard-Smithsonian Centre & Durham University |
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March 29th |
"Astrophotography - A retrospective" |
Gain Lee, Huddersfield AS |
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April12th |
"A Lecture by Prof Liane Benning" |
Prof in Experimental Biogeochemistry, Leeds University |
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April 26th |
"Images of the Universe - Part 3" |
Paul Money FRAS |
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May 10th |
"Meteorite Impacts on Earth" |
Prof Paul Wignall, Leeds University |
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May 24th |
"Cosmology" |
Dr Fred Stevensen, Astronomy Tutor |
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June 7th |
Solar Observing outside the library |
Eccleshill Library |
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June 21st
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"Skylon - The Key to
future Space Transportation"
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Simin Feast, Reaction Engines
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July 5th
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"Gamma Ray Bursts - Lighting
up the Dark Ages"
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Prof Nial Tanvir, Leicester
University
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July 19th
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"Venus - Paradise Lost"
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Andy Lound, FBIS |
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August 9th
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"Diving for WIMPs: Neutrino Astrophysics and the
ANTARES Project"
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Dr Lee Thompson, Sheffield University
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August 23rd
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Members' Night - when the
members themselves give short talks/show photographs/etc.
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Eccleshill Library |
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September 6th
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"Artificial Satellites - what
can we see?"
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Andy Batters, Bradford AS
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September 20th
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"On Top of the World"
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Paul Money, FRAS
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October 11th |
"Hot Jupiters and New
Earths"
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Dr Roger New, Sheffield University
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October 25th
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"Early Scottish Astronomers & The Origins of
the Edinburgh Observatory"
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Mike Alexander, Galloway Astronomy
Centre
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November 8th
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"To See The Beginning of Time"
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Andy Lound, FBIS |
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November 22nd
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"Spectroscopy"
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Dr David Jenkins, York University
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December 6th
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"Astro Imiging - Alternatives to Visual Observing"
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Andy Hatfield FRAS, Bradford AS
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December 20th
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Christmas meeting with Hilary's
famously easy peasy diabolical quiz! followed by the Christmas raffle
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Eccleshill Library
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