Transcript GAS Presentation 060907 web extract

Comet Encounter
• Comet 177P / Barnard 2 will rendezvous
with NGC 6543 (Cat's eye nebula) on Sept.
19th
• The objects will be just over 1 degree apart
• Both are about 9th magnitude
• Great photo opportunity!
Close Encounter
• 12th September
• Moon passes through Pleiades, occulting
two stars
• 27 Tauri reappears at 22.33
• 28 Tauri reappears at 22.35
• Another great photo opportunity!
September – TV & Radio
• The Sky at Night
– “The Sun and The Moon”
• Patrick Moore: SMART-1
• Chris Lintott: Solar B & Stereo
– Saturday 9th
BBC1, 12.00 – 12.20
• The Cosmic Hunters
– “Cosmic Dawn”
• Chris Riley: Astronomers hunting the 1st stars
– Wednesday 13th Radio 4, 21.00-21.30
• Star City
– Cosmonaut Training Centre, Moscow
– Friday 8th, Radio 4, 11.00 – 11.30
Campaign for Dark Skies
6th European Symposium
www.britastro.org/dark-skies/
Friday 15th – Saturday 16th September (10 a.m. – 5 p.m.)
Royal Sailors’ Home Club, Portsmouth
£3.00 per single day, £5.00 both – Pre Booking Essential
Speakers
Lembit Opik MP, Robert Key MP, Bob Mizon, Alexandra Pollard
Dr. Paul Marchant, Philip Perkins, Dr. Chris Baddiley, Martin
Morgan Taylor, Dr John Mason
Stands
Venturescope, Green Witch, Springer
Society for Popular Astronomy
Cape Instrument, Astrocruise
The Astronomer - Annual Meeting
Saturday 23rd September (10 a.m. – 5 p.m.)
St.Mary’s Church Hall, Basingstoke
£8.50 + £7.00 for optional 3 course meal
www.theastronomer.org
Programme
Amateur astronomers and the Accelerating Universe:
- Bob Evans
The Universe Unveiled:
- Dr.Robin Catchpole
OJ287: a slight case of schizophrenia:
- Mark Kidger and Gary Poyner
The sun in a different light:
- Maurice Gavin
Goodbye to UBVRI:
- Dr. Mark Kidger
Early attempts at Spectroscopy:
- Brendan Shaw
Autumn Equinox Star Party
Kelling Heath : 18th to 28th September
Speakers
Trade / Society Stands
Saturday 23rd
• Reflectors vs Refractors
– Ian Morison
• Observing Saturn
– Ian Phelps
Sunday 24th
• Deep Sky
– Owen Brazel
• CCD Imaging/Registax
– Tommi Worton &
Martin Stirland
• Altair Astro
Astronomica
Astroparts
Campaign for Dark Skies
Cape Instruments Ltd
David Hinds
Earth & Sky
Green Witch
House of Optics
Ian King Imaging
Pulsar Optical
Rother Valley Optics
Telescope House
Widescreen Centre
Observatory Science Centre
Herstmonceux Astronomy Festival
Friday 29th September (6.30pm - 11pm)
Viewing tours of the telescopes
visits to the Space Geodesy Facility.
Saturday 30th September (10am - 11pm )
5 lectures throughout the day (£2 per lecture)
Telescope tours
Tours around the Space Geodesy Facility
Viewing, tours of the telescopes,
visits to the Space Geodesy Facility
Sunday 1st October (10am - 6pm)
Family activity workshops, Telescope tours
Tours around the Space Geodesy Facility
FAS Annual Convention
30th September, Birmingham
Speakers
Trade / Society Stands
• Prof. John Brown
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Scotland)
• Dr Allan Chapman
– (Uni of Oxford)
• Dr Somak Raychaudhury
(Uni. of Birmingham)
• Dr David Whitehouse
– (science journalist / BBC)
• John Dobson
– (The Sidewalk Astronomer)
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Aurora Books
Campaign for Dark Skies
COSMOS Media
David Bryant - Space Rocks
I R Poyser - Telescope
Maker
Spaceguard Thinktank
Society for the History of
Astronomy
Society for Popular
Astronomy
Opticstar Ltd
Next Meeting:
Thursday 5th October
Observing From The City
Robin Scagell