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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 programme is detailed below. For previous years' meetings click here.

Meetings 2006 - 2007

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

 

11 Sept 06

Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe:

Life in the Universe

25 Sept

Chris Evans

The Story of Mauna Kea

09 Oct

Annual General Meeting

 

16 Oct

Special Meeting at Highfields School

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23 Oct

Ann Bonnell

Percival Lowell

06 Nov

Dr Martin Morgan Taylor

Deep Sky Imaging

20 Nov

Paul Pope and Mike Gallear

Tips on Using Your Telescope

04 Dec

Martin Lunn MBE

Pre Telescopic Astronomy

08 Jan 07

Martyn Filsak

Quiz Night and Photo Competition

22 Jan

Mike Frost (Coventry & Warwickshire AS)

The Arms of Buddha

05 Feb

Gordon Rogers  (Crendon Observatory)

The 16" RCOS Telescope

19 Feb

Dr Carlo Colacino

Dark Matter and Dark Energy

05 Mar

Frank Barretto

The Resonances of the Solar System

19 Mar

TBA

02 Apr

Ted Thurgur and Simon Barnett

The Eclipse of 2006

14 May

Paul Pope

Selecting a Telescope

18 Jun

Malcolm Astley

The Life and Times of Tycho Brahe

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