Friday June 25th 4.30pm: Registration open 6.15pm: Official opening 6.30pm: Professor Tony Signal: "Gravitational Waves and Cosmology: Latest Results show Inflation Works!" Observing and hot soup
Saturday June 26th 9.00am: Solar observing/imaging 10.30am: Jeremy Moss: “Telescopes – Beyond the Visible” 11.00am: Steven Keen: “Space Invaders – High Altitude Ballooning” 11.30am: Vicki Irons: “Catch a falling Star” 12.00pm LUNCH (Pizzas, Baked Potatoes and Sausages available) 1.00pm: Edwin Rodley: “Space news update” 1.30pm: Catherine Abou-Nemeh: “Comets in late 17th-Century Europe” 2.00pm: BREAK and GROUP PHOTO 2.30pm: Frank Andrews: "The Astrophysics of Life" 3.00pm: Carl Knight: “Factors affecting Novae Ejecta” 3.30pm: BREAK
4.00pm: Owen Moore: “Planning and Constructing an Observatory for the Comfort-loving Astronomer” 4.30pm: Stephen Chadwick: “A Trip Around the Clouds of Magellan” 5.00pm: DINNER – Fish and Chip Supper (to order) 6.00pm: Ian Cooper: “Joining the Dots” Observing and hot soup (Sir Patrick Moore: 84 and Counting (DVD) ) Sunday
June 27th 9.00am: Solar observing/imaging 10.30am: Grant Christie: "A Galaxy of Planets: The search for another Earth" 11.00am: Peter Felhofer: “The Cosmological Scale” 11.30am: John Talbot: “Watching Stars go out (Occultation Observing)” 12.00pm: LUNCH (Pizzas, Baked Potatoes and Sausages available)
1.15pm: Otto Gruelbl: “Astronomy vs Astrology” 1.45pm: Closing
Observing will take place on Friday and Saturday night weather permitting and thus the evening schedule may change to reflect this |
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