Monthly Meetings

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All meetings start at 7.30 pm at St. Bartholomew’s Church Hall, Abbey Street, Crewkerne,TA18 7HY (map), unless otherwise stated.

Programme for 2013

  • January 16 – APOD evening-more intriguing photos of the Universe
  • February 20 – Bob Mizon: What’s Up? The nature of Astronomical Objects
  • March 20 – James Fradgley: The Sun: from dust cloud to White Dwarf
  • April 17 – Gizmo and gadget evening
  • May 15 – Sheri Lynn Karl: Vulcanology in the Solar System
  • June 19 – Dr John Macdonald: Sundial workshop
  • July 17 – Ask the Experts evening
  • August 21 – Pete Adshead: X-planes and the Space Race
  • September 18 – Bob Mizon: Weird Astronomy
  • October 16 – Mark Radice: Lunar Observing
  • November 20 – Steve Hill: Shaping the Universe – Use the Force
  • December 18 – Christmas social and members’ short talks

 

 

Programme for 2012

  • January 18th – Ron Westmaas: Stones from Space
  • February 15th – Bob Mizon: Exoplanets
  • March 21st – Rob Hatch: Meteor detection by radar
  • April 18th – Help! Beginners’ questions
  • May 16th – Martin Morgan-Taylor: The DSLR camera in astronomy
  • June 20th – Steve Harris: Light, our only messenger from the skies
  • July 18th – Jerry Workman: Mars Rovers
  • August 15th – Ann Davies and David Boyd: Chasing the Moon’s shadow
  • September 19th – Various members: Getting the best out of your equipment
  • October 17th – Dave Strange: Deep-sky astrophotogaphy
  • November 21st – Guy Hurst: The Search for Novae and Supernovae: from visual to robotic telescopes
  • December 19th – Ron Westmaas & Bud Budzynski: Imaging the Moon, Sun and planets

Programme for 2011

  • January 19th – Bob Mizon: Oddities of the Solar System
  • February 16th – Darren Baskill: X-treme Astronomy
  • March 16th – Martin Griffiths: Black Holes
  • April 20th – Help! Beginners’ questions
  • May 18th – Martin Morgan-Taylor: Observatories Around the World
  • June 15th – Arthur Davis: Comets and Asteroids
  • July 20th – Jerry Workman: Mars Rovers
  • August 17th – APOD evening: Intriguing photos of the Universe
  • September 21st – Ron Westmaas: Stones from Space: an introduction
  • October 19th – Alan Dowdell: History of the Deep Sky
  • November 16th – James Fradgley: The Origin of the Solar System
  • December 21st – Christmas meeting: members’ contributions