There are three talks tonight. Mike will be discussing ‘Features on the Moon’ , followed by two shorter talks on ‘NASA Unmanned Missions’ and ‘Space Stations’ by Heather and Charles respe
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.
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’
Next Meeting: 20, June-Summercourt
Image Credit: STScI The next meeting of Kernow Astronomers is on Thursday 20, June at the Summercourt Memorial Hall. Gather at 7.00pm for a 7.30pm start. Supernovas are the explosions that happen when a star runs out of enough fuel to support it against its own crushing gravity. When stars explode they are some of the brightest and most violent astronomical events known. In tonights talk Nigel will be exploring the different types of…
Next Meeting: May 16th – Summercourt
EAA, or Electronically Assisted Astronomy is an ever increasing popular way to do Astronomy. While it uses a camera to make observations, it’s not astrophotography and because you are not looking through an eyepiece, you don’t need to be at the telescope to do it. Nick will give an overall view on what EAA is and how you can simply and relatively cheaply use your existing go-to telescope- no matter what kind it is…
Next Meeting: March 21st – Summercourt
Image Credit: US Airforce Dan’s talk will be on Aurora. He will start with what the aurora actually are , i.e. the reactions with charged particles with different elements in the atmosphere and how the magnetosphere channels them. He’ll then move onto solar events that release them and why they like equinoxes. He’ll also describe how other phenomena, that look like aurora, are formed. We meet at 19:00 for a 19:30 kickoff