2022-23
| Date | Speaker | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Jun 2023 | Julian Onions | Black Holes – are they really that bad |
| 15 May 2023 | Mary McIntyre | A History of Women in Astronomy Pt 2 |
| 17 Apr 2023 | Roger Metcalfe | Binary Stars |
| 17 Apr 2023 | Duncan Willis | Astro Navigation |
| 20 Mar 2023 | Peter Jenkins | Imaging from light polluted skies |
| 06 Mar 2023 | Andrew Lound | Space: The Fuel Cell Frontier |
| 20 Feb 2023 | Andrew Newsam | Noisy Data |
| 06 Feb 2023 | Martin Lunn | Astronomy in the Mediterranean |
| 23 Jan 2023 | Michael Barrett | Astronomy & Freemasonry |
| 09 Jan 2023 | Steve Warbis | Messier’s objects and how they map the milky way |
| 05 Dec 2022 | Mary McIntyre FRAS | A History of Women in Astronomy Pt 1 |
| 21 Nov 2022 | Dr Jonathan Smoker | Astronomy at the European Southern Observatory, Chile |
| 07 Nov 2022 | Prof.Don Pollacco | The PLATO Mission – The Habitable Zone Explorer |
| 24 Oct 2022 | Gary Poyner | An Introduction to Variable Star Observing |
| 10 Oct 2022 | Phil Barnard | AGM + short talk by member? Linscott scope |
| 26 Sep 2022 | President | ‘David Harris’ Lecture – Planning an Observation Night |
| 12 Sep 2022 | Andrew Gascoyne | Solar Physics: The Coronal Heating Problem…..Solved? |
2021-22
| Date | Speaker | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Jun 2022 | Katrin Raynor-Evans | Exploring Astronomy and Space through Philately |
| 16 May 2022 | Damian Hardwick | The Life of Albert Einstein |
| 11 Apr 2022 | Paul Fellows | Fire and Ice: The volcanic worlds of the Solar System |
| 21 Mar 2022 | Pete Williamson | The Moons of our Solar System |
| 21 Mar 2022 | Dr Fran Bagenal | Juno Mission to Jupiter, Extended! |
| 21 Feb 2022 | Mike Frost | Against the Odds: A Patagonian Eclipse |
| 07 Feb 2022 | Steve Clifton | Astrophotography Then and Now |
| 24 Jan 2022 | Dr Julian Onions | Crazy Interstellar Rockets |
| 10 Jan 2022 | Prof Rene Breton | Cosmic Fireworks |
| 06 Dec 2021 | Georgia Pulford | A Brief Geological History of Time |
| 22 Nov 2021 | Alex Binks | Young Stars in our Backyard |
| 08 Nov 2021 | Martin Braddock | Perseverance and Heavenly Questions |
| 25 Oct 2021 | Prof Ian Morison | Morison Wonders of the Southern Sky |
| 11 Oct 2021 | AGM & Adam Foster | My Astronomy Journey |
| 27 Sep 2021 | Steve Wootton | The David Harris Lecture: The Scale of the Universe |
| 13 Sep 2021 | Dr Steve Barrett | The ABC of Galaxy Evolution |
2020-21
| 09 Aug 2021 | Andy Briggs | How to photograph a Black Hole: the Story of the Event Horizon Telescope |
| 12 Jul 2021 | Robin Hague | Skyrora: Making space sustainable |
| 14 Jun 2021 | Paul Money | Why Are There No Green Stars? |
| 17 May 2021 | Damian Hardwick | Inventor, Investigator and Innovator: The life of Sir John Herschel |
| 12 Apr 2021 | Paul Fellows | Children of Another Sun |
| 22 Mar 2021 | Tracey Snelus | Aurora: The Greatest Light Show On Earth |
| 08 Mar 2021 | Paul Pope Lecture: Chris Lintott | The Crowd and the Cosmos |
| 22 Feb 2021 | Mike Frost | Isaac Newton and The Surrey Pumas |
| 08 Feb 2021 | Mark Gibbons | Black Holes |
| 25 Jan 2021 | Russell Parry | The Appley Bridge Meteorite |
| 11 Jan 2021 | Steve Barrett | The Beginning of Everything |
| 07 Dec 2020 | John Pitchford | Dr David Morgan’s Project and RETRAM |
| 23 Nov 2020 | Mark Townley | Cycles on the Sun: Space Weather & the Earth-Sun Environment |
| 09 Nov 2020 | Mary McIntyre | Reflection, Refraction and Excitation |
| 26 Oct 2020 | Julian Onions | Galaxies: One Gigayear At A Time |
| 12 Oct 2020 | Linda Manas | The History of the Calendar |
| 28 Sep 2020 | Doug Bickley | Voyager: The Interstellar Phase |
| 14 Sep 2020 | Dave Eagle | Out of the Darkness – Pluto, New Horizons and Ultima Thule |
| 10 Aug 2020 | Nicholas Booth | Mars: The Clearest View |
| 13 Jul 2020 | Steve Tonkin | Two Eyes are Better than One |
2019-20
| Date | Speaker | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 29 Jun 2020 | Steve Clifton | Deep Sky Photography: Capturing Ancient Photons |
| 15 Jun 2020 | Prof Rob Jeffries | Gaia: the billion star mapping machine |
| 11 May 2020 | Dr Julian Onions | Things that go bang in the night (sky) |
| 09 Mar 2020 | [Paul Pope lecture] – Pete Williamson | From Myth to Moon |
| 24 Feb 2020 | Mike Frost | Lady astronomers of the BAA |
| 10 Feb 2020 | Trevor Clifton | I can never find anything |
| 27 Jan 2020 | Time to talk | Time to talk |
| 13 Jan 2020 | Dr Julian Onions | The Far Side of the Moon, is it full of Aliens? |
| 09 Dec 2019 | Steve Wootton | A photometric study of NGC 957 |
| 25 Nov 2019 | Dr Phil Evans | Astronomy beyond light |
| 11 Nov 2019 | Dr Julian Onions | Heavy Metal |
| 28 Oct 2019 | Dr Sean McGee | From early ripples to the Milky Way: The evolution of galaxies |
| 14 Oct 2019 | AGM | AGM |
| 30 Sep 2019 | [David Harris memorial lecture] Doug Bickley | Parsons Leviathan |
| 16 Sep 2019 | Dr Anne-Marie Broomhall | Our Sun: dynamic or dull? |
2018-19
| Date | Speaker | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 17 Jun 2019 | Phil Barnard | Development and uses of spectroscopy |
| 13 May 2019 | John Cook | Solar activity update, visual and radio |
| 01 Apr 2019 | Trevor Clifton | Radio astronomy on a budget |
| 18 Mar 2019 | Damian Hardwick | The mystery of stone circles |
| 04 Mar 2019 | Paul Pope lecture: Jay Tate | The Science of Armageddon |
| 18 Feb 2019 | Dr Andrew Gascoyne | Sunspots, Sunquakes and Solar Storms: An Introduction to Solar Physics |
| 04 Feb 2019 | Dr Leon Hicks | Sample return missions, including Hayabusa 2 and Osiris Rex |
| 21 Jan 2019 | Time to Talk | Time to Talk |
| 07 Jan 2019 | Mike Frost | Drawing the line |
| 03 Dec 2018 | Graeme Hall | Mercury: A Closer Look |
| 19 Nov 2018 | David Eagle | A whistle stop tour of the universe hitch hiking on a ray of light |
| 05 Nov 2018 | Dr Julian Onions | Cold dark matter |
| 22 Oct 2018 | Dr Phil Sutton | The Cassini mission |
| 08 Oct 2018 | AGM | AGM |
| 24 Sep 2018 | Doug Bickley | Faulkes telescope project |
| 10 Sep 2018 | Bob Marriot | Silver on glass revolution |
2017-18
Pending…
2016-17
| Date | Speaker | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Jun 2017 | Roger Pickard | Water water everywhere but… |
| 15 May 2017 | Phil Barnard | Chance Brothers: Their Contribution to Astronomy |
| 03 Apr 2017 | Kevin Kilburn | Not fifty shades of grey |
| 20 Mar 2017 | Michael Bryce | Explorers of the solar system |
| 06 Mar 2017 | Paul Pope lecture: Professor David Evans | Mini big bangs in ALICE and the CERN LHC |
| 20 Feb 2017 | Dr Jacco Van Loon | Creation and destruction in cosmic explosions |
| 06 Feb 2017 | Callum Potter | Globular clusters galactic fossils |
| 23 Jan 2017 | Members’ evening | Members’ evening |
| 09 Jan 2017 | Martyn Filsak | Light, darkness and colour |
| 05 Dec 2016 | Professor Ilya Mandel | How do you look for black holes and find them? |
| 21 Nov 2016 | Julian Onions | The Universe from scratch |
| 07 Nov 2016 | David Finnigan | SPA Deep Sky Section |
| 24 Oct 2016 | Mark Gibbons | Kepler |
| 10 Oct 2016 | AGM & | Observatory |
| 26 Sep 2016 | Damian Hardwick | The Vikings |
| 12 Sep 2016 | Sean Elvidge | The shape of the universe |
2015-16
| Date | Speaker | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Jun 2016 | Gary Poyner | Variable Stars |
| 16 May 2016 | Mike Frost | Norman Lockyer |
| 04 Apr 2016 | Kevin Kilburn | Manchester’s Rocket Man |
| 21 Mar 2016 | Dr. Tiago Campante | Music of the Stars, New Worlds |
| 07 Mar 2016 | Paul Pope Lecture: Dr Julian Merten | Cosmology |
| 22 Feb 2016 | Prof. Ian Morison | Astrophotography |
| 08 Feb 2016 | Andrew Lound | Pluto |
| 25 Jan 2016 | Members’ Evening | Evening |
| 11 Jan 2016 | Prof. John Bridges | Exploring Mars: Curiosity |
| 07 Dec 2015 | Mark Gibbons | Tycho Brahe |
| 23 Nov 2015 | Prof. Salamanca | Galactic Evolution |
| 09 Nov 2015 | Sean Elvidge | Sunny with a Hint of Catastrophe |
| 26 Oct 2015 | David Eagle | Rosetta & Philae Lander |
| 12 Oct 2015 | AGM & | Workshop |
| 28 Sep 2015 | Damian Hardwick | Planet Earth |
| 14 Sep 2015 | Prof Mike Merrifield | 21st Century Telescopes |