Upcoming Meetings: September-December 2013
4th September 2013
Dave Green from Cambridge University will give a talk called “Observing the radio universe”. He will review the development of radio astronomy. His talk will cover advances made in the technology used in single-dishes and arrays, including the development of interferometry and aperture synthesis. He will also show a variety of results made with current state of the art radio telescopes (including with the Very Large Array in the US, and the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope in India).
2nd October 2013
Dr Mike Leggett will give a talk entitled “Astronomy in the Ancient World”.
6th November 2013
Dave Roberts will lead a night sky observing session. There will be an alternative programme if the weather is poor.
4th December 2013
Sheridan Williams FRAS, director of the British Astronomical Association’s computing section, will talk about the mechanics of eclipses.
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