Talks programme for 2020

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