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Professional Societies

2007/8 Syllabus

2nd Oct 2007 Annual General Meeting
6th Nov 2007 Bob Christy Lincoln AS Don't they always launch a shuttle in the morning?
4th Dec 2007 Martin Lunn Yorkshire Museum US Naval Observing
8th Jan 2008 Paul Money Lecturer, Writer & Broadcaster Images of the universe
5th Feb 2008 Peter Rea Cleathorpes & Dist AS Return to the red planet
4th March 2008 John Hazelwood Lincoln AS Background and prelude to the British space programme
1st April 2008 John Chapman Smith TBA Exhibitions on astronomy and space
6th May 2008 Gary Poyner Birmingham Variable Stars
3rd June 2008 Dr Lillian Hobbs Pres. Southampton AS Remote control of your telescope
1st July 2008 Nigel Bradbury Chesterfield AS Astrotourism it's alive
5th Aug 2008 TBA TBA TBA
2nd Sept 2008 Michael Czajkowski Lincoln AS

The Peter Hamerton Memorial Lecture - Funny blue planet

7th Oct 2008 Annual General Meeting

2006/7 Syllabus

3rd Oct 2006 Annual General Meeting
7th Nov 2006 Peter Rea Cleethorpes AS A Panoramic Mars
4th Dec 2006 Nigel Pennington   Buying your first telescope
9th Jan 2007 Paul Money Lecturer, Writer & Broadcaster Touring Taurus
6th Feb 2007 Michael Czajkowski Lincoln AS Icy Worlds
6th March 2007 Denis Ashton Sheffield Hallam University Galaxies Building Blocks of the Universe
3rd April 2007 Mike Foulkes Hertfordshire AS Edge of the Moon
5th June 2007 Lorraine Money Lecturer, Writer & Broadcaster Astronaults and I
3rd July 2007 Ann & John Bonnell Leicester AS Cosmic Distance Ladder
7th Aug 2007 Dr Frazer Pearce - Exoplanets are we alone?
4th Sept 2007 Dr Roger New Sheffield Hallam University

The Peter Hamerton Memorial Lecture - Sounding out the Sun

2nd Oct 2007 Annual General Meeting

2005/6 Syllabus

4th Oct 2005 Annual General Meeting
1st Nov 2005 Rod Hine Bradford AS Milestones in Astronomy
6th Dec 2005 Jim Ince & Peter Whyles Bassetlaw AS Wings in Space
10th Jan 2006 Paul Money Lecturer, Writer & Broadcaster Observing Orion
7th Feb 2006 Michael Czajkowski Lincoln AS Mars, Fire, Ice & Life
7th March 2006 Nik Szymanek - Astronomical Photography
4th April 2006 Dr Mike Leggett - Astronomy in the ancient world
2nd May 2006 Prof. Peter Coles Nottingham University Is the big bang wrong?
6th June 2006 Dr Ann Bonnell Leicester AS George Ellery Hale
4th July 2006 Les Jepson Bassettlaw AS Einstein v StarTrek
1st Aug 2006 Roger Dymock Hampshire AS Observing Asteroids
5th Sept 2006 Nigel Bradbury Chesterfield AS

The Peter Hamerton Memorial Lecture - Central Asia and its astronomy

3rd Oct 2006 Annual General Meeting

2004/5 Syllabus

5th Oct 2004 Annual General Meeting
2nd Nov 2004 Gary Poyner Birmingham AS Observing Faint Variables from City Skies
7th Dec 2004 Dr Darren Baskell Leicester University Cataclysmic Variable Stars
11th Jan 2005 Paul Money Lecturer, Writer & Broadcaster Cassini, Lord of the rings
1st Feb 2005 Derek Clarke RAF Cranwell Life as an astronaut
1st March 2005 Phil Norton Lincoln AS Astronomy with a webcam
5th April 2005 John Brown Ilkeston AS Practical Observing
3rd May 2005 Dr Lillian Hobbs Southampton AS Wish you were here
7th June 2005 Dr Roger New Sheffield Hallam University Extra Solar Planets
5th July 2005 Peter Rea Cleethorpes AS A panoramic moon
2nd Aug 2005 Mike Faulkes - Observing Jupiter
6th Sept 2005 David Swaby Lincoln AS

The Peter Hamerton Memorial Lecture - US Aastronomy Part 2

4th Oct 2005 Annual General Meeting

2003/4 Syllabus

7th Oct 2003 Annual General Meeting
4th Nov 2003 Dr Nigel Bannister Leicester University Astronomy with the ISS
2nd Dec 2003 John Dunthorne Cleethorpes AS The Legacy of Apollo
13th Jan 2004 Prof. Martin Barstow Leicester University How to be a rocket scientist
3rd Feb 2004 Paul Money Lecturer, writer and Broadcaster The minor planets
2nd March 2004 Members Evening Lincoln AS Slide Show
6th April 2004 Prof. Peter Coles Nottingham University Cosmic Microwave Background
4th May 2004 Madeline Cox Bassetlaw AS Nottinghamshire, a heavenly county
1st June 2004 John Hazelwood - British Aerospace projects over the years
6th July 2004 Ann Bonell Leicester AS Henry Norris Russell
3rd Aug 2004 Paul Money Lecturer, writer and Broadcaster The Summer & Autumn Skies
7th Sept 2004 Martin Lunn Yorkshire Museum

The Peter Hamerton Memorial Lecture - Fathers of Variable Star Astronomy

5th Oct 2004 Annual General Meeting

2002/3 Syllabus

1st Oct 2002 Annual General Meeting
5th Nov 2002 Mike Foulkes Hertford AS What happened to Shoemaker
Levi 9?
3rd Dec 2002 David Shayler - At home in space
14th Jan 2003 Paul Money Lecturer, writer and Broadcaster Naked Eye & Binocular Astronomy
4th Feb 2003 Dr Bryn Jones - Mapping Galaxies
4th March 2003 Owen Miller Lincoln AS An end in sight
1st April 2003 Les Jepson - Somewhere over the starbow
6th May 2003 Dr Patric Sherry - Long ago and far away
3rd June 2003 Quiz Night Cleethorpes AS v Lincoln AS
1st July 2003 Martin Lunn Yorkshire Museum Thomas Cooke, Telescope Maker of York
5th Aug 2003 John
Chapman Smith
- Basic Solar Observing
2nd Sept 2003 David Swaby Lincoln AS

The Peter Hamerton Memorial Lecture - 4 Decades and Counting

7th Oct 2003 Annual General Meeting

2001/2 Syllabus

2nd Oct 2001 Annual General Meeting
6th Nov 2001 John Hazelwood - British & Comonwealth Rocketry in the 20th Centuary
4th Dec 2001 Peter Rea - 2001 the real space odyssey
8th Jan 2002 Paul Money Lecturer, writer and Broadcaster 2 MASS a new view of the universe
5th Feb 2002 Quiz Night Cleethorpes AS v Lincoln AS
3rd March 2002 Ray Emery - Celestial undead the Pulsar Story
2nd April 2002 Dr Stuart Clarke - Life on other worlds & how to find it
7th May 2002 David Swaby Lincoln AS The Mercury & Gemini Projects
4th June 2002 Madeline Cox - Arequipa - Harvard's Southern Observatory
2nd July 2002 Prof Ken Pounds - Recent developments in space & ground based astronomy
6th Aug 2002 Andrew Patton - Minor Planets
3rd Sept 2002 John Dunthorne -

The Peter Hamerton Memorial Lecture - Intro to the Autumn Sky

1st Oct 2002 Annual General Meeting

2000/1 Syllabus

3rd Oct 2000 Annual General Meeting
7th Nov 2000 Dr Stuart Clarke Hertford University Life on other worlds & how to find it
5th Dec 2000 Quiz Night Cleethorpes AS v Lincoln AS
9th Jan 2001 Lunar Eclipse Open Night -
6th Feb 2001 Prof Colin Pillinger - Beagle 2.
The search for life on Mars
6th March 2001 Ken & Chris Sheldon - Artificial Satellites
3rd April 2001 David Early - End of the world. Fact or fiction?
1st May 2001 Hary Middleton Lincoln AS The Astrolabe
5th June 2001 Peter Drew The Astronomy Cntr The Astronomy Centre in the 21st Centuary
3rd July 2001 David Swaby Lincoln AS Edward Emerson Barnard - Explorer of the Heavens
7th Aug 2001 Ann Bonnell Leicester AS Percival Lowell and the Canals of Mars
4th Sept 2001 Dr Simon Vaughan Cambridge University

The Peter Hamerton Memorial Lecture - Observations of Black Holes

2nd Oct 2001 Annual General Meeting