September ’23 Monthly Meeting – Reminiscences and Theory of Solar Eclipses
This month’s talk was kindly delivered by Sheridan Williams. More details to follow…
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August ’23 Monthly Meeting – Somewhere over the rainbow…
Our August monthly meeting included a special talk about rainbows and an array of weird atmospheric effects from our guest presenter Mary McIntyre. Mary’s passion and expertise for photography and optical phenomena really shone...
Deep Sky Imaging and Going “Old School”
There have been some unbelievable advances in imaging in recent years that has enabled amateurs in city locations to produce stunning images of deep sky objects. Our own Mark Tweedie shares some fantastic images...
July ’23 Monthly Meeting – What Goes Up…
With our scheduled speaker unfortunately unable to attend, our very own Chairman, none other than “Mr Pokemon” himself stepped up to deliver a very entertaining talk about flight performance challenges of spaceships visiting remote...
Supernova SN2023IXF
First reports of this Type II supernova were published on May 19th 2023 by Koichi Itagaki, a Japanese amateur astronomer accredited with discoveries of 3 supernovae – there’s hope for us all yet. This...
June ’23 Monthly Meeting – AGM
Summer time is upon us again and given that the nights get even shorter as we approach the Solstice, what better way to celebrate than to hold our AGM! Not to worry though, we...
May ’23 Monthly Meeting – Houston we have a problem. We have met ETI!
May’s guest speaker is Dr Martin Braddock is a professional scientist and project manager working in the field of drug discovery and development with 36 years’ experience of working in academic institutes and large...
April ’23 Monthly Meeting – Aurorae: Tracking and Capturing Nature’s Light Show
Nigel Bradbury will reveal the secrets of spotting one of the world’s greatest phenomenon, the Aurora Borealis, the Northern Lights. Nigel is a renowned international expert in this phenomenon. During the presentation at the...
March ’23 Monthly Meeting – Exoplanets
For the March Monthly Meeting, we welcome Marina Lafarga Magro, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Warwick University who will deliver a presentation on Exoplanets. Despite confirmation of the existence of exoplanets is relatively recent...
February ’23 Monthly Meeting – Pioneering Women of the British Astronomical Association
A talk by Mike Frost, Current Director of the BAA’s Historical Section, at CAWAS’s meeting of 10th February 2023. Picture: Margaret Lindsay Huggins “I’m not using the microphone,’ Mike announced at the beginning of...