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Society Video Tapes

Some Society meeting lectures between 1998 and 2001 were video taped to enable members to borrow the tapes if a meeting was missed or even if they just wanted to see them again. They now also form part of the Society Archive. The full list of available tapes is detailed below:
 
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NO.

TITLE

SPEAKER

MEETING

YEAR

1.

Eclipses

Dr Eric Jones

March 30

1998

2.

Space Station

Andy Salmon

June 15

1998

3.

Edmund Halley; The Man Behind the Comet

Dr Allan Chapman

September 14

1998

4.

Birth of a Small Blue Planet

Barbara Russell

September 28

1998

5.

Lunar Observing

Alan Wells

October 26

1998

6.

Gravity in the Universe

Professor A M Cruise

November 9

1998

7.

Astronomical Photography

Ian Gray

December 7

1998

8.

Jodrell Bank 1964 - 1968

Dr John Cooper

February 8

1999

9.

Doomsday Rogues of the Sky - Part 3

Frank Barretto

February 22

1999

10.

Meteor Imaging

Steve Evans

March 8

1999

11.

The Soviet Space Programme

Andy Salmon

March 22

1999

12.

Apollo 11

David Shayler

May 17

1999

13.

The 1999 Total Solar Eclipse

Dr Eric Jones

January 24

2000

14.

Spectroscopy for Amateurs

Dr Ken Elliot

February 7

2000

15.

Methuselah of Comets

Frank Barretto

March 20

2000

16.

Telescopic Astrophotography

Ian Gray

April 3

2000

17.

Medical Problems Affecting Astronauts

Dr Gillian Pearce

May 15

2000

18.

Gamma Ray Astronomy & the Integral Mission

Dr John Lockley

September 18

2000

19.

Globular Clusters

Professor Nye Evans

October 30

2000

20.

The Hot Universe

Dr Trevor Ponman

November 27

2000

21.

Weather and Astronomy

Simon Keeling

March 5

2001

22.

The Changing Colours of the Universe

Dr Bob Warwick

April 2

2001

23.

From Hamurabi to Hubble

Rod Hine

June 18

2001

24.

Planets and Life Beyond the Solar System

Dr Barrie Jones

September 17

2001

Each 3 hour VHS tape contains 2 talks, listed in pairs as follows: 1+ 2, 3+4 → 23+24.

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