Honorary President : Dr Allan Chapman

 

Wadham College, Oxford

 

Secretary : R.A. Marriott

 

Director, Instruments and Imaging Section

British Astronomical Association

 

Tel : 01604 765190

 

E-m : ram@hamal.demon.co.uk

Treasurer : Miss Lorraine Crook

 

E-m : lorraine.crook07@my.northampton.ac.uk

 

 

 

 

Meetings and Events – to November 2008

 

Thursdays, 7.30 pm; doors open 7.00 pm

Towcester Road Methodist Church, Northampton

(Non-members : £1.50 per meeting)

Previous meetings

 

 

Location

Pages

 

Transit of Venus, 2004 June 8

Total solar eclipse, Libya, 2006 March 29

1927: a British eclipse

Seeing

Sidereal chromatics

The Moon, imaged with a webcam

A lunar halo

Astronomy and the Clergy : Dr Allan Chapman

Meeting of the BAA I&I Section, 2007 May 12

Occultation of Saturn, 2007 May 22

Eagle, Endurance and Erebus : Doug Ellison

BAA Exhibition Meeting, 2007 June 30

NAS Exhibition, 2007 July 3–31

Observing the Deep Sky : Owen Brazell

Observing Variable Stars : Gary Poyner

Pallas and Uranus

Future Solar Eclipses : Sheridan Williams

The Expanding Universe : Dr Bob Lambourne

The Galactic Zoo : Dr Chris Lintott

Observatories Around the World : Mike Maunder

Does Science Challenge Religion? : Dr Allan Chapman

Observing Saturn : Mike Foulkes

Meeting of the BAA I&I Section, 2008 May 10

Observing the Sun : Kevin Smith

External links

 

February 14

Does Science Challenge Religion?

 

Dr Allan Chapman

February 28

Open House at the Yeoman of England, Wootton               Location

7.00–11.00 pm (no entrance fee); exhibits; rolling slide-show;

come and go as you please; good food, ales and wines.

 

March 13

Members’ Evening                                           Contributions invited

 

March 27

Open House

 

See February 28

April 10

Observing Meteors

 

Steve Evans

April 24

Open House

 

See February 28

May 8

Observing Saturn

 

Mike Foulkes

May 10

British Astronomical Association, I&I Section

For a brief report and photographs, see the BAA I&I Section website

 

May 29

Open House

 

See February 28

June 12

Observing the Sun

 

Kevin Smith

June 26

Summer Garden-Party at the Yeoman of England               Location

7.00–11.00 pm; buffet at 8.00 pm; members £4; non-members £5.50

 

October 9

 

 

Active Galaxies

and

Black Holes

Dr Bob Lambourne

October 30

Open House

 

See February 28

November 13

Annual General Meeting

 

... including some astronomy

November 27

Open House

 

See February 28

 

Membership

 

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Non-members : £1.50 per meeting

 

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