Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, B. Robertson (UC Santa Cruz), B. Johnson (CfA), S. Tacchella (Cambridge), P. Cargile (CfA). Generally, we are all a nosy bunch. Since 1950 many people have loved being flies on the walls in Ambridge to hear the drama and gossip of several families in The Archers that don’t actually exist. The genealogical roots of many celebrities have been investigated with a fine tooth comb over the years in…
Our Next Meeting: 19, September – Summercourt
There are three talks tonight. Mike will be discussing ‘Features on the Moon’ , where he will touch on a few of the surface features, as well as aiming to present other aspects that are less well known; eg, why the Moon has a ‘lumpy’ gravitational field and what the implications are. This will be followed by two shorter talks on ‘NASA Unmanned Missions’ and ‘Space Stations’ by Heather and Charles respectively.
Next Meeting: 15th August – Summercourt
Image Credit: Ripley Entertainment Tonight will feature two talks. The first poses the question ‘What does the 1982 TV series ‘Believe it or Not’ and Gamma Ray Bursts have in common? Dan’s talk tonight will reveal all. The second is ‘Globules and Elephant Trunks’ Nick analyses an image he took back in 2020 and explains what’s happening to a number of the features seen within the image.
ISS transit of the Sun: 29, July
Mark Godwin captured an extraordinary image of the ISS crossing the Sun on July 27, 2024, at 15:24:46 UT using his new ZWO Seestar S50 Smart telescope. The impressive still was extracted from a 4-second video sequence….
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Multiple milestones in astronomy have reshaped our understanding of the universe: from Apollo 8’s Earthrise photo to Copernicus’ heliocentric model, Galileo’s observations, Hubble’s expanding universe, and Penrose’s cyclic cosmology theory….
Next Meeting: 18th July Summercourt
Image Credit: SockPuppetForTomruen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Tonight kicks of with a ‘What’s Up’ for the next 30 days and a short overview of our club trip to the NLO last month. The main talk for the evening will be Frank on the subject of ‘Historical Transits’ . After the tea break Roy will give us his 10-Minute talk on ‘Mars Missions’