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A full August meeting.

A warm evening and an a warm welcome to our visitors and our main speaker Chris Starr, Chairman of Wells and Mendip Astronomers. In an excellent presentation Chris took us back to the origins of the solar system and explored some of the ideas of how we’ve ended up with the composition and arrangement of our planets as they are today. Chris also described the impressive Dawn mission to Vesta and Ceres and what this is telling us about the early solar system.

Bob Mizon took us to France and described his find of a large lump of breccia (impact altered rock) a sample of which he brought to the meeting for us to examine.

The break that followed allowed us to again enjoy Iain Torrance’s amazing cakes whilst we chatted among ourselves about astronomy and just about everything else.

Following the break we had time to enjoy the many images of Perseid meteors taken by Bill Reed and Martyn Spice. Bill also shared his excellent recent images of the Cocoon and Veil nebulae and Adrian Owen described his observation of the ISS occulting a star.

Because of the full programme, Arthur Davis was unable to present Monthly Sky Notes but this will return next month.

Many thanks to Zena and Annabelle and those who ‘volunteered’ for washing up duty, setting up for the meeting  and clearing up at the end. We’d be stuck without you.

Philip Perkins will be our speaker on September 21. His provisional topic is Deep Sky imaging.

Could anyone interested in attending the film ‘Last man on the Moon’ at Wells Town Hall in October please let me know as soon as you can so I can pass this on to Chris.

See you in September,
Ron

 

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