Club Talks
15 January
Professor Charles Lawrence - 'Newton's Calculus' -
15 April
Nick James - 'Great Comets and Great Disappointments' -
29 April
Magda Wheatley - '30 years of the Hubble Space Telescope', and Les Brand - 'Stellarium run-through'
12 May
Doug Millard - '30 years of the Hubble Space Telescope', and Peter Morris - 'Summer Sky Notes'
20 May
Roger O'Brien - 'Interstellar Visitors'
3 June
Szabolcs Nagy - 'Shooting the International Space Station' -
17 June
Steve Tonkin - 'Two eyes are better than one'
1 July
Dr Louise Devoy - 'Annie Maunder (1868-1947): pioneering astrophotographer and 'lady computer' at Greenwich', and
Peter Morris on Colours of double stars
22 July
Dick Campbell, Director of the Central Texas Astronomical Society.- Live camera tour of the telescope and control room; talk about the remote operation, and their science; public outreach and education support
29 July
Zach Dickeson - ‘Lakes, Oceans, and the Search for Life on Mars’
19 August
Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell - 'Bursts, bangs and things that go bump in the night - transient astronomy' -
2 September
Anastasia Kokori - 'ARIEL: the future of exoplanets and ExoClock'
16 September
Paul Money - 'The Vikings at Barsoom Part Two - The search for life'
21 October
Dr Paul Whiting - ' Colliding Galaxies'
4 November
Professor John Zarnecki - ‘Spacecraft I have known and loved’
2020
Professor Charles Lawrence - 'Newton's Calculus' - 15 January
Nick James - 'Great Comets and Great Disappointments' - 15 April
Magda Wheatley - '30 years of the Hubble Space Telescope', and Les Brand - 'Stellarium run-through' - 29 April
Doug Millard - '30 years of the Hubble Space Telescope', and Peter Morris - 'Summer Sky Notes' - 12 May
Roger O'Brien - 'Interstellar Visitors' - 20 May
Szabolcs Nagy - 'Shooting the International Space Station' - 3 June
Steve Tonkin - 'Two eyes are better than one' - 17 June
Dr Louise Devoy - 'Annie Maunder (1868-1947): pioneering astrophotographer and 'lady computer' at Greenwich”, and
Peter Morris on Colours of double stars - 1 July
Dick Campbell, Director of the Central Texas Astronomical Society.- Live camera tour of the telescope and control room;
talk about the remote operation, and their science; talk about our public outreach and education support - 22 July
Zach Dickeson - ‘Lakes, Oceans, and the Search for Life on Mars’ - 29 July
Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell - 'Bursts, bangs and things that go bump in the night - transient astronomy' - 19 August
Anastasia Kokori - 'ARIEL: the future of exoplanets and ExoClock' - 2 September
Paul Money - 'The Vikings at Barsoom Part Two - The search for life' - 16 September
Dr Paul Whiting - ' Colliding Galaxies' - 21 October
Professor John Zarnecki - ‘Spacecraft I have known and loved’ - 4 November
2021
Professor Marc Schumann - 'Exploring the Dark Universe with XENON' - 7 January
Professor Alan Fitzsimmons - 'Understanding Near-Earth Objects and Planetary Defence' - 20 January
Ryan French - 'Ancient times to new results - a journey through solar physics' - 3 February
Dr Dafydd Wyn Evans - 'Gaia: what was delivered in EDR3 and what is to come in DR3' - 17 February
Dr Rebekah Higgitt - 'Transits of Venus and 'precision exploration' in the 18th century' - 3 March
Dr Greg Brown - 'Black Holes: The Small, the Medium and the XXL' - 17 March
2022
Dr Martin Suttle – ‘The Winchcombe meteorite and what we’ve learnt so far’ – 19 January
https://youtu.be/uGhQCB5WT8k
Dr David Arditti – ‘History of the Telescope’ – 16 February
https://youtu.be/vTaGcIx9mGA
Dr Lee Macdonald – ‘From cracked mirror to Nobel Prize: the story of the Isaac Newton Telescope – 16 March
https://youtu.be/IpVl-qh79l8
Konrad Malin-Smith – ‘Gravity - historical and modern (without the maths!)’ – 20 April
https://youtu.be/oOkoL-pj3AQ
Roger O’Brien – ‘Interstellar communication’ – 18 May
https://youtu.be/QZgSRpDyQYE
Gerry Workman – ‘The Apollo moon landings from 11 to 17’ – 15 June
https://youtu.be/BoRoe8VemAg
Dr Paul Whiting – ‘The Energetic Whirligigs of the Universe’ - 20 July
https://youtu.be/v5sF-GNAwEs
Chris Woodhouse – ‘Imaging roundup’ – 19 October
(only available to end 2022; to then be de-listed, at Chris' request)
https://youtu.be/LujE0a3qXRk
16 November:
Nik Szymanek - ‘New Adventures with Image Processing’
https://youtu.be/YuBvxQa9Rx0
Les Brand - 'Variable phenomena and photometry - a short intro' (Club members' talk, same date)
https://youtu.be/FdPO79OiT6Y