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recent meetings...
2007 November 26 Astro Imaging Martin Taylor October 29 TBA Dr. Megan Grey October 15 Planets and Life Beyond Prof. Barry Jones September 24 Gamma Rays Dr. Liz Palmer September 10 Exo Planets Dr. Carol Haswell August 13 Asteroids Roger Dymock July 9 Cassini Jerry Workman June 25 Exoplanets Dr. Ian Stevens June 11 Mars and Martian Meteorites Prof. Monica Grady April 23 Evolution of Planetary Nebula Dr. Nick Hewitt March 26 New Horizons at Jupiter John Rogers March 12 Search for New Planets in the Making Dr. Cathie Clark February 12
The High Altitude Observatory of Piazzi Smyth Dave Eagle
January 29
The Moon - A Biography Dr. David Whitehouse 2006 November 13 VARIABLE STAR OBSERVING & RECORDING Gary Poyner October 16 LORD OF THE RINGS Andy Lound September 18 NEW DESIGN REFRACTOR John Wall September 4 GRAVITY WAVES Prof. Tom Marsh August 21 EVOLUTION OF COMPACT BINARIES Dr Ulrich Kolb August 7 UNUSUAL FIRST MAGNITUDE STARS Dr. Nigel Foster July 17 HOME RADIO ASTRONOMY Karen Holland July 3 OUTBURSTS & OSCILLATIONS Dr Andrew Norton June 12 STAR CLUSTERS Karen Holland May 20 BRITISH ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATION Instruments and Imaging Section (all-day meeting) April 10 FILM NIGHT A selection of videos March 4 BRITISH ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATION Deep Sky Section (all-day meeting) February 13 SUPERNOVAE Tom Boles January 9
GLOBULAR CLUSTERS Nick Hewitt 2005 December 14 A VISIT ... to Bedford AS November 14 STARDUST Simon Green October 10 THE AUTUMN SKY A symposium October 8 BRITISH ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATION Radio Astronomy Group (all-day meeting) September 26 THE WEBB SOCIETY: ITS HISTORY AND ACTIVITIES Bob Argyle September 12 A DEEP-SKY ALPHABET Stewart Moore August 8 CATACLYSMIC VARIABLES Darren Baskill June 13 SHUTTLE-BORNE OBSERVATORIES David J. Shayler May 21 BRITISH ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATION Instruments and Imaging Section (all-day meeting) March 5 BRITISH ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATION Deep Sky Section (all-day meeting) 2004 October 25 OBSERVING FAINT VARIABLE STARS IN CITY SKIES Gary Poyner October 11 A VISIT ... to Bedford AS September 27 THE OPPOSITION OF MARS, 2003 Richard McKim September 20 PALOMAR OBSERVATORY SKY SURVEY Continuation of cataloguing September 13 ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY John Toone August 23 PALOMAR OBSERVATORY SKY SURVEY Assessment and cataloguing of the Society's collection May 15-16 BRITISH ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATION Instruments and Imaging Section / Variable Star Section (two-day meeting) March 6 BRITISH ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATION Deep Sky Section (all-day meeting) February 21 A VISIT ... by members of Bedford AS January 26 X-RAY ASTRONOMY Darren Baskill 2003 November 24 TRAVELS WITH METEORS Steve Evans November 10 STARGAZERS: THE ASTRONOMER-ASTRONAUTS David J. Shayler September 8 ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA Mike Frost August 16 BRITISH ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATION Instruments and Imaging Section (all-day meeting) June 30 THE LEVIATHAN OF PARSONSTOWN - A VISIT Bob Marriott and Lorraine Crook May 12 CATACLYSMIC VARIABLES Nick James March 31 MODELS OF THE UNIVERSE Alan Longstaff March 8 BRITISH ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATION Deep Sky Section (all-day meeting) February 24 A VISIT ... by members of Luton AS January 27 TO OCCULT, OR NOT TO OCCULT Richard Miles 2002 November 25 FAILURES GALORE; THE ODD SUCCESS Gordon Rogers September 30 A NIGHT OUT AT THE FLICKS A selection of videos September 9 A VISIT ... by members of Milton Keynes AS August 12
METEORS: ORIGINS AND OBSERVATIONS A symposium July 8 OBSERVATORIES AROUND THE WORLD Michael J. de F. Maunder June 10 A PICTORIAL CORNUCOPIA Members' slides May 17 A VISIT ... to Milton Keynes AS April 8
THE SILENT UNIVERSE Stephen Webb March 11 VISUAL OBSERVING FOR THE AMATEUR Nick Hewitt, Martin Taylor and Bob Marriott March 9 BRITISH ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATION Deep Sky Section (all-day meeting) February 11 MEGALITHIC OBSERVATORIES REVISITED Clive Ruggles January 14 COMETS, AND THEIR EXPLORATION BY SPACECRAFT David W. Hughes 2001 November 26 SUPERNOVA! Tom Boles November 2 1957! Patrick Moore October 29 LANDSCAPES: EARTH TO THE DEEP FIELD Francisco Diego October 8 ASTRONOMERS AND ODDITIES Peter Hingley August 13 A HISTORY OF THE ALTAZIMUTH MOUNT Stuart Cooper July 30
ZIMBABWE 2001: AN ECLIPSE EXPEDITION Nick Hewitt June 11 THE APOLLO TELESCOPE MOUNT David J. Shayler May 26 BRITISH ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATION Instruments and Imaging Section (all-day meeting) May 14 ASTRONOMICAL IMAGING FROM LA PALMA Nik Szymanek May 4 A VISIT ... to Milton Keynes AS April 30 OBSERVING WITH BINOCULARS Shaun Albrighton March 12 LOST CONSTELLATIONS Mike Gainsford March 3 BRITISH ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATION Deep Sky Section (all-day meeting) January 29 LARGE OPTICS FOR THE AMATEUR John Wall 2000 November 27 A VISIT ... by members of Milton Keynes AS October 30 PLANETARY OBSERVATION Bob Marriott October 14 BRITISH ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATION Variable Star Section (all-day meeting) September 11 PRECISION MEASUREMENTS IN COSMOLOGY Bob Lambourne July 31 THE AURORA Neil Bone June 26 ON THE DOORSTEP OF INFINITY Andy Salmon May 8 A HISTORY OF HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT Frank Gear May 6 BRITISH ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATION Instruments and Imaging Section (all-day meeting) April 10 MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR Jerry Workman 1999 November 19 THE MAGIC OF TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSES Francisco Diego November 8 SOLAR OBSERVATIONS: SOME UNUSUAL RESULTS Norman Walker October 12 GLOBULAR CLUSTERS Owen Brazell September 27 A LIFE IN OPTICS David Sinden August 23 THE ECLIPSE: WHAT HAPPENED? August 9 ECLIPSE MEETING AT TRURO SCHOOL, CORNWALL . July 12 ECLIPSE PHOTOGRAPHY Nick Hewitt May 15 BRITISH ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATION Instruments and Imaging Section (all-day meeting) April 26 THE SUN Peter Gill April 12 THE COSMOLOGICAL DISTANCE LADDER Stephen Webb March 8 A TWIN 12-INCH Bob Neville March 6 BRITISH ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATION Deep Sky Section (all-day meeting) January 25 W.R. DAWES Bob Marriott 1998 November 9 TRAVELS OF A PLANETARY ASTRONOMER Richard McKim October12 STAR CLUSTERS Guy Hurst September 28 EXTRASOLAR PLANETS Stuart Clark September 14 THE GALAXY UNVEILED Tom Boles August 10 THE UK NOVA/SUPERNOVA PATROL Mark Armstrong June 30 A VISIT ... by members of Leicester AS May 30 BRITISH ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATION Instruments and Imaging Section (all-day meeting) April 27 THE WONDERFUL MESSAGE OF STARLIGHT Francisco Diego March 30 TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE, VENEZUELA Nick Hewitt February 9 NINETEENTH-CENTURY INSTRUMENT MAKERS Bob Marriott January 12 THE MILKY WAY GALAXY AND ITS SATELLITES Bob Lambourne 1997 November 24 UNUSUAL ASTEROIDS John Mason November 21 REDSHIFT Stuart Clark November 15 BRITISH ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATION Deep Sky Section (all-day meeting) September 29 PLANETS AND LIFE IN THE GALAXY Barrie Jones May 12 DEEP SKY OBSERVING PROJECTS Nick Hewitt May 10 BRITISH ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATION Instruments and Imaging Section (all-day meeting) April 14 TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE, MONGOLIA Nick Hewitt March 10 GALILEO TO JUPITER Frank Gear January 27 30 YEARS ALREADY! Bob Marriott 1996 November 11 THE UNIVERSE ON A MICRO, IN 3-D Chris Baddiley October 14 THE EYE AND THE OBSERVER Shaun Albrighton October 5 BRITISH ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATION Variable Star Section (all-day meeting) July 29 COMET TEMPEL-TUTTLE AND THE LEONIDS Steve Evans June 10 TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF PROFESSIONAL IMAGING A selection of slides May 18 BRITISH ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATION Instruments and Imaging Section (all-day meeting) May 13 PC OR PEA SOUP? A symposium April 29 THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE Nick Hewitt April 8 VARIABLE STARS A symposium February 26 OPTICAL TREASURES A symposium January 29 IMAGING TECHNIQUES Bob Neville