Due to the Covid pandemic, meetings were held online from March
Professor Charles Lawrence - 'Newton’s Calculus'
John Sweeney - 'Spectroscopy'
Magda Wheatley - ‘The discovery of Pluto in February 1930’
Peter Morris spoke about Voyager I and the Pale Blue Dot image
John Sweeney previewed his talk for Thames Chase
Les Brand talked about the “Star Count”.
Nik Szymanek - Astrophotography and run-through of Telescope Live
Nick James - ‘Great Comets and Great Disappointments’
Magda Wheatley - ‘30 years of the Hubble Space Telescope’
Les Brand - Stellarium run-through
Doug Millard (Science Museum, London) - ‘30 years of the Hubble Space Telescope’
Peter Morris - ‘Summer Sky Notes’
Roger O’Brien (astronomy tutor at several institutions, including the Open University, City Lit and the Royal Observatory Greenwich) - ‘Interstellar Visitors’
Szabolcs Nagy - ISS imaging talk
Steve Tonkin - ‘Two eyes are better than one’ - binocular astronomy
Louise Devoy (Royal Observatory Greenwich) - ‘Annie Maunder (1868-1947): pioneering astrophotographer and 'lady computer' at Greenwich’
Peter Morris - ‘Colours of double stars’
Lee Macdonald - ‘Kew Observatory and the origins of Solar-Terrestrial Physics’
Dick Campbell (Central Texas Astronomical Society) - Live camera tour of the telescope and control room at the Meyer Observatory, run by the Central Texas Astronomical Society (CTAS); research and outreach of the CTAS
Zach Dickeson (Natural History Museum, London) - ‘Lakes, oceans, and the search for life on Mars’
Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell - ‘Bursts, bangs and things that go bump in the night - transient astronomy'
Anastasia Kokori - ‘ExoClock project for the Ariel mission’
Paul Money (regular and popular speaker to HAS; also reviews editor for the BBC ‘Sky at Night’ magazine) - ‘The Vikings at Barsoom Part Two: The search for life’
Emily Drabek-Maunder (Royal Museums Greenwich) - ‘Searching for evidence of life in the clouds of Venus’
Dr Paul Whiting – one of our regular speakers and an outreach astronomer providing talks, activities and courses to schools, youth and adult groups – ‘Colliding Galaxies’
Followed by our AGM.
Professor John Zarnecki (Open University; also former President of the Royal Astronomical Society) - ‘Spacecraft I have known and loved’
Nik Szymanek (amateur astronomer, renowned astrophotographer and author) - ‘Adventures with CCD imaging’
Dr Peter JT Morris and Magda Wheatley, HAS Meetings Secretaries (Joint) - Christmas Quiz
- and results of our Photography Competition