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Autumn Term 2008 |
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Sep 25 |
The Solar Eclipse of 2008
- Mr Nick James (BAA) |
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Oct 2 |
SOCIETY MEETING
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Oct 9 |
The Birth and Death of Stars
- Dr Barry Kellett (Rutherford Appleton Laboratories) |
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Oct 16 |
What You Have Always Wanted to
Know but Daren't Ask About Astronomy
- Mr Norman Walker (BAA) |
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Oct 23 |
Jupiter: a Global Upheaval in
a Dynamic Atmosphere
- Dr John Rogers (BAA) |
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Oct 30 |
HALF TERM
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Nov 6 |
SOCIETY MEETING
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Nov 13 |
Comets (probably)
- Dr Robert Massey (RAS) |
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Nov 20 |
Measuring the Size and Shape
of the Earth
- Dr Paul Murdin (RAS) |
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Nov 27 |
An MOT for Hubble, Servicing
the Space Telescope
- Dr John Mason (BAA) |
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Dec 4 |
Mars Revisited
- Dr Alan Longstaff (RGO) |
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Dec 11 |
James Glaisher FRS Victorian
Astronomer
- Dr Alan Chapman (Wadham College, Oxford) |
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Dec 18 |
CANCELLED - SOCIETY MEETING -
CANCELLED
- The Crayford Manor House will be closed. This session
has been postponed. |
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Winter Term 2009 |
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Jan 8 |
Thomas Harriot the Englishman
who beat Galileo
- Dr Alan Chapman (Wadham College, Oxford) |
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Jan 15 |
SMART-1
- Dr Barry Kellett (Rutherford Appleton Laboratories) |
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Jan 22 |
SOCIETY MEETING
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Jan 29 |
Astronomical Alignments of Maltese Temples
- Dr Martin Morgan Taylor (De Montfort Temples) |
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Feb 5 |
News from the American
Astronomical Society Meeting at Palm Springs
- Dr John Mason (BAA) |
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Feb 12 |
The Search for Alien Life
- Dr Lewis Dartnell (UCL) |
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Feb 19 |
HALF TERM
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Feb 26 |
"Pictures in the Sky: the
Origin and History of Constellations" and "Exploring the Moon"
- Dr Ian Ridpath (RAS) |
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Mar 5 |
SOCIETY MEETING
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Mar 12 |
The Discovery and Understanding of Galaxies
- Dr Stewart Moore (BAA) |
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Mar 19 |
TBA
- Prof Ian Morison (Gresham Professor of Astronomy) |
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Mar 26 |
How Particle Physics can
help Cosmology and Vice-Versa
- Prof Mark Lancaster (UCL) |
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Apr 2 |
LISA - Observing
Gravity Waves from Space
- Prof Timothy Sumner (Imperial College) |
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Spring Term 2009 |
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Apr 23 |
SOCIETY MEETING
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Apr 30 |
TBA
- Dr Carolin Crawford (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge) |
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May 7 |
Latest Results
from Cassini
(possibly)
- Dr Nick Achilleos (UCL) |
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May 14 |
Making and Recording
Astronomical Observations
- Mr Roger Pickard (BAA) |
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