Image Credit: NASA -SDO We have a special treat this evening. Tonight we will be visited by Matthew Browning an associate professor in the Astrophysics group at the University of Exeter. This evening he will be presenting a talk entitled ‘How the stars got their spots’ We realise this is at rather short notice and hope you will be able to come. This talk is open, not just to our membership, but anyone who…
Sun and Stars – 5th April: Carnewas
The third of this years Sun & Stars events. The event, as always, is dependant on clear skies, but this evening we hope to be able to see sunspot activity on the surface of the Sun before it sets. As the skies darken, we will be able to observe Jupiter and her moons as it sets followed by Mars and an 8 day old waxing Moon as they pass through the meridian. The event…
March 29th: Partial Solar Eclipse – Tretherras School
The eclipse on March 29, 2025, will be a partial solar eclipse. This type of eclipse happens when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth but the Sun, Moon, and Earth are not perfectly lined up. The Moon will block only part of the Sun, causing the Sun to appear like a crescent. In conjunction with Tretherras School, Newquay, the club and its members will be helping out to allow everyone to safely…
Our Next Meeting – 20th, March: Summercourt
Image Credit: NASA The main talk of the evening will be given by Dan Baker on – Up and coming space missions. After the break Dr Nigel Price’s 10 minute talk will be an update on his spectrohelioscope project that he is running with the pupils at Tretheras School. Meeting Lead Glynn Bennallick We meet at 19:00 for a 19:30 Kick-off. Find Us: https://kernowastronomers.com/find-us/ What3Words: ///remodel.tequila.hazy
Our Next Meeting – 20th, February: Summercourt
Image Credir: Carsten Jonas The main talk of the evening will be given by Dr Daniel Moore will be: An introduction to meteorites – our personal connection to space. Meteorites provide a tantalising link to our solar system that we can hold in our hands. But where do they come from? Where are they found? Are they all the same? In this talk, Daniel will provide an introduction to meteorites and answer some of…
A Constellation With a Sting In Its Tail.
I write this while on a ship in the South Atlantic travelling from the Falkland Islands to South Georgia on a wildlife expedition to see the amazing creatures and plant life in the polar regions and Antarctica before the environment is altered through climate change. Image Credit: Glynn Bennallick To get here, on the way down south to Buenos Aires, I glanced out of my plane window at night over the wing to the…