2012/13 Syllabus
| 6th Nov 2012 |
John Dunthorne |
Cleethorpes & Dist A.S. |
The Future of Manned Space Exploration. |
| 4th Dec 2012 |
Philip Norton |
Lincoln Astro Society |
The Christmas Star |
| 8th Jan 2013 |
Nik Szymanek |
Haveringham Astro Society |
Photographing the Night Sky |
| 5th Feb 2013 |
Michael Czajkowski |
Open University |
Life in the Outer Solar System |
| 5th March 2013 |
Peter Rea |
American Space Programme Enthusiast, Grimsby |
Apollo 17: Mission to Taurus Littrow |
| 2nd April 2013 |
Dr Johanna Jarvis |
Astronomy Tuition, Rugby |
A Long Long Time Ago |
| 7th May 2013 |
Mike Foulkes |
Hertfordshire |
L.I.S.A. Laser Interferometer Space Antenna |
| 4th June 2013 |
Dr Ann Bonell |
Leicester Astronomical Society |
The Search for Vulcan and other Hypothetical Solar System Objects. |
| 2nd July 2013 |
Mark Hurn |
Cambridge |
Sir Arthur Eddington: Man, Myth & Magic |
| 6th Aug 2013 |
Paul Money |
Lecturer, Writer & Broadcaster |
Images of Earth |
| 3rd Sep 2013 |
David Cook |
Norwich Astro Society |
The Peter Hammerton Memorial Lecture.
Myths and Legends of the Night Sky |
| 1st Oct 2013 |
Annual General Meeting |
|
2011/12 Syllabus
| 2nd Nov 2011 |
Jim Ince |
Bassettlaw A.S. |
Cancelled. |
| 6th Dec 2011 |
Dr Ann Bonnell |
Leicester AS |
50 Years of Manned Spaceflight |
| 10th Jan 2012 |
Paul Money |
Lecturer, Write & Broadcaster |
Images of the Universe Vol4. |
| 7th Feb 2012 |
Michael Czajkowski |
Open University |
Exoplanets. Migration and a New look at the Solar System |
| 6th March 2012 |
Courtney Williams |
Theoretical physics student at Imperial College London |
Neutrinos in Astronomy / Astrophisics, discovering the secrets of the universe by examining its tiniest constituents. |
| 3rd April 2012 |
Prof Sam Falle |
University of Leeds |
Relativistic Jets |
| 1st May 2012 |
Gary Poyner |
www.variablestars.co.uk |
Using the Bradford Robotic Telescope |
| 5th June 2012 |
Dr Colin Steele |
Sheffield Astronomical Society |
Sundials, the sky as a clock |
| 3rd July 2012 |
Jerry Stone |
Letchworth & District AS |
The threat from near Earth objects - click here for more .... |
| 7th Aug 2012 |
David Swaby |
Lincoln Astronomical Society |
Building the LAS Observatory |
| 4th Sep 2012 |
Dr Mike Leggett |
Milton Keynes Astro Society |
The Peter Hammerton Memorial Lecture |
| 2nd Oct 2012 |
Annual General Meeting |
|
2010/11 Syllabus
| 2nd Nov 2010 |
Rod Hine |
Bradford AS |
Heavenly Bodies with Magnetic Personalities |
| 7th Dec 2010 |
Mark Hurn |
Cambridge University |
"Sir Robert Ball" the Victorian Patric Moore! |
| 11th Jan 2011 |
Paul Money |
Lecturer, Write & Broadcaster |
Images of the Universe Vol 3 |
| 1st Feb 2011 |
Michael Czajkowski |
Lincoln Astronomical Society |
Titan before and after Huggens |
| 1st March 2011 |
Eric Dunford |
|
Infra Red Astronomy from Space |
| 5th April 2011 |
Dr Ann Bonnell |
Leicester AS |
50 Years of Manned Spaceflight |
| 3rd May 2011 |
Martin Lunn |
York AS |
Viking Astronomy |
| 7th June 2011 |
Prof. Barrie Jones |
Open University |
Mars Before the Space Age |
| 5th July 2011 |
Dr. Lillian Hobbs |
Hampshire AS |
How Astronomy Has Changed |
| 2nd Aug 2011 |
Peter Rea |
Cleethorpes & District A.S |
Apollo 15, The Wonder of the Unknown at Hadley Apennine. |
| 6th Sep 2011 |
Dr. John Baruch |
University of Bradford |
The Peter Hammerton Memorial Lecture
Is There Life Out There? |
| 4th Oct 2011 |
Annual General Meeting |
|
2009/10 Syllabus
| 3rd Nov 2009 |
John Dunthgorne |
Cleethorpes & Dist AS |
Women in Astronomy & Space Programme |
| 1st Dec 2009 |
Michael Czajkowski |
Lincoln AS |
“They came from outer space and what they did for us” (about meteorite impact on Earth, how craters form effects on life in the past and potential threat in the future. |
| 12th Jan 2010 |
Peter Rea |
Cleethorpes & Dist AS |
Postcards from Mars |
| 2nd Feb 2010 |
Paul Money |
Lecturer, Write & Broadcaster |
Images of the Universe Vol 2 |
| 2nd March 2010 |
Mike Frost |
Rugby AS |
A Very Curious Astronomer – (Jeremiah Horrocks and the Transit of Venus) |
| 6th April 2010 |
Prof. Michael Merrifield |
University of Nottingham |
How to Build a Galaxy |
| 4th May 2010 |
John Hazelwood |
Lincoln AS |
H.T.P. Rockets, a British Way to the Stars |
| 1st June 2010 |
Dr. Mike Legget |
Milton Keynes AS |
Astronomy in the Ancient World |
| 6th July 2010 |
Dr. Caitriona Jackman |
Imperial College London |
Cassini Huygens – Mission to Saturn |
| 3rd Aug 2010 |
Dave Owen & Geoff Regan |
Liverpool A.S |
Large Aperture Telescope Making for Amateurs |
| 7th Sep 2010 |
Dr. Carolin Crawford |
University of Cambridge |
The Peter Hammerton Memorial Lecture - Peculiar Galaxies |
| 5th Oct 2010 |
Annual General Meeting |
|
2008/9 Syllabus
| 4th
Nov 2008 |
John Brown |
Ilkeston AS |
Cometry Tales |
| 2nd Dec
2008 |
Rod
Hine |
Bradford |
Children
of the Sun |
| 13th Jan 2009 |
Paul Money |
Lecturer, Writer & Broadcaster |
On Top of the World |
| 3rd Feb 2009 |
Michael Czajkowski |
Lincoln AS |
Cosmic Rubbish and What it Tells Us |
| 3rd Mar 2009 |
John Hazelwood |
Lincoln AS |
RAF Manned Space Programme |
| 7th April 2009 |
Mike Foulkes |
Hertfordshire AS |
Saturn, Ringed and Ringless |
| 5th May 2009 |
Madeleine Cox &
Les Jackson |
Bassetlaw AS |
Telescopes of William Herschel |
| 2nd June 2009 |
Russell Eberst |
Edinburgh |
Satellite Tracking |
| 7th July 2009 |
Dr Anne Bonnell |
Leicester AS |
TBA |
| 4th Aug 2009 |
Bill Laidleir |
Lincoln AS |
Arizona Sky's |
| 1st Sept 2009 |
Paul Money |
Lecturer, Writer & Broadcaster |
The
Peter Hamerton Memorial Lecture |
| 6th Oct |
Annual General
Meeting |
|
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 |
Bob Christy |
Lincoln AS |
Celestial Spheres - how
Korolyov got the Space Race off to a flying start |
| 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 |
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 |
Peter Hamerton Memorial
Lecture - 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 |
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 |
Peter Hamerton Memorial
Lecture - 4 Decades & 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 |
- |
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 |
Peter Hamerton
Lecture - Observations of Black Holes |
| 2nd Oct 2001 |
Annual
General Meeting |
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