July ’24 Monthly Meeting – Dark Nebula and AGM
Earlsdon Methodist Church Hall, Earlsdon Avenue South, CV5 6DN July 12th 2024, 7pm – 9pm For this month, we welcome back Owen Brazell who will be giving a talk on Dark Nebula. Owen is...
Earlsdon Methodist Church Hall, Earlsdon Avenue South, CV5 6DN July 12th 2024, 7pm – 9pm For this month, we welcome back Owen Brazell who will be giving a talk on Dark Nebula. Owen is...
…with Dr Richard McKim, Director of the Mars Section of the British Astronomical Association. https://britastro.org/forums/users/dr-richard-john-mckim
Mark is a Warwick Prize Fellow working in the Astronomy and Astrophysics Group at the University of Warwick. He is a member of the Extragalactic Transients Group and his research focuses mainly on the...
Image courtesy of NASA image library For April’s monthly meeting, we welcome Warwick University research fellow Dr Ingrid Pelisoli. Dr Pelisoli’s background involves the study of compact stars in binary systems, their evolution and...
March’s Monthly Meeting saw us welcome back Michael Morris who gave an interesting presentation on observing double stars. Mark’s last talk on observing the moon sparked off a spate of drawings and images from...
Sinus Iridum: sketch by Mark Tweedie Clavius: Sketch by Mark OK, I’ll come clean – I’m not a huge fan of the moon – the Coventry skies are bright enough without having our companion...
When conducting his research, Professor Nial Tanvir looks further – and further back – than almost anyone else on the planet. As an expert on gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the most luminous and violent explosions...
Mike Frost (Director of the Historical Section of the BAA) treats us once again with his presentation on his latest project – a contributor to the new book Eclipse and Revelation due for release...
In January 2024, we received an invitation to look around the recently opened Marsh Observatory at Warwick University. When the announcement was first made, it seemed like our entire membership wanted to attend! Fortunately,...
Tony Green presented this month’s talk about the challenges of making precise photometric observations using small telescopes. The talk covered the use of photometric filters, transformations, aperture photometry and uploading results to the AAVSO...