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Meetings

Meetings are held once every two weeks between September and April, plus one meeting in May and one meeting in June. The current meeting's programme has been compiled by Graham Mogford and is detailed below. For previous years' meetings click here.

Meetings 2008 - 2009

All meetings are held at Beckminster Methodist Church Hall, Birches Barn Road, Wolverhampton. For a location map click here.

 

DATE

SPEAKER

SUBJECT

15th Sep 08 Alastair Gunn Jodrell Bank and the Space Race
29th Sep 08 Richard Beare Exploring the night sky without a telescope: using Sloan Digital Sky Survey resourses on line
13th Oct 08 AGM & Jeremy Edwards Supermassive  and Lesser Massive Stars, Dark Energy and Extra Dimensions in Space Time
27th Oct 08 Andrew Lound Lunatic Astronomy
10th Nov 08 Jamie Gilmour Meteorites and the Early Solar System
24th Nov 08 Mike Gallear A Messier Mini-Marathon
08th Dec 08 Bill Chaplin Sounding The Heartbeat of Stars
12th Jan 09 Richard West WASP - the Wide Angle Search for Planets
26th Jan 09 John Dee Planetary Imaging
09th Feb 09 Various Constellations
23rd Feb 09 Sam George The Hunt for Emission in the Low Frequency Radio Sky
09th Mar 09 Mike Bryce Europe in Space
23 Mar 09 Neil Morris-Hobley To Be Confirmed
06th Apr 09 Neil Parker Astronomy in the Canary Islands - the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes
11th May 09 Roger Pickard Making and Recording Observations
15th Jun 09 Paul Pope The Eye as an Optical Instrument

All Meetings are subject to change. All changes will appear on this web page wherever possible.