Steve Barrett – End Of Everything
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomAlthough it took only three minutes to make our Universe (see 'Beginning of Everything' given to Wolvas in Jan 2021) it will take more than a trillion trillion years for ... Read more
Mark McIntyre – Meteors: An Observers Guide
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomMark will cover three areas, what they are, why we are interested in them, and how to observe visually, with a camera, by radio and by video, wrapping up with ... Read more
Paul Money – TBA
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomDescription pending ...
Paul Fellows – Quark Stars and Strange Matter
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomThe usual story told of the end stage of giant stars is that they either finish up as a neutron star or collapse completely to a black hole. However, in ... Read more
Professor Chris Lintott – Paul Pope Memorial Lecture
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomProfessor Chris Lintott, astrophysicist, author and broadcaster presents this years lecture held in memorial of former Wolvas president Paul Pope. Subject TBC
Steve Tonkin – Right Light At Night
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomLight Pollution was first identified as a problem by astronomers, but its consequences reach far wider. It is now widely recognised that artificial light at night, especially bright white light, ... Read more
Damian Hardwick – Sir Bernard Lovell & His Telescope
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomDuring his time as director of Jodrell Bank, Sir Bernhard Lovell turned a patch of Cheshire countryside into one of the worlds leading radio observatories. In this talk we take ... Read more
John Thatcher – The James Webb Space Telescope At Work
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomThe talk will provide a basic understanding of JWST and why it looks the way it does along with a look at some of the results obtained during the first ... Read more
Members Evening – TBA
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomTalks presented by Wolvas members: Descriptions pending ...