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Notice of Next Meeting
Our next monthly meeting:
- Date: Wednesday, 11 November 2020
- Time:19h00 for 19h30
- Presenter: Dimitri Veras
- Topic: Exo-Planets: Famous Firsts, Boisterous Births, and Destructive Deaths.
- Location: Zoom Meeting 816 7479 5682
- Book a spot via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or send a e-mail to receive the password.
Picnic under the Stars
Our next Picnic under the Stars:
- Date: Saturday, 24 October (Weather permitting.)
- Time: 19h00 – 22h00
- Location: Monte Casino, Piazzo Area, near the Teattro.
- Topic: The Moon and Mars, you are welcome to bring a telescope.
- Please Note: Due to Covid Level 1 restrictions, please ensure that you are wearing a mask at all times and practice social distancing and hygiene. No food or drink may be brought onto the premises, but there are restaurants in the centre. There is no security so the safety of your belongings and equipment is your own responsibility.
Please see our facebook page for more information or cancellations and to book your Spot
Events
- Lecturer: Gill Jacobs
- Topic: Introduction to Astronomy Lectures Series
- Location: Zoom Meeting
- Date:
Lecture 2: June 24 @ 19h30
Lecture 3: July 1 @ 19h30
Lecture 4: July 8 @ 18h30
Lecture 5: July 15 @ 19h30
Lecture 6: July 22 @ 19h30
For login details, book a spot via Facebook or send an email to
Astronomy.com
- “Super Soaker” rocket creates gleaming cloud at the edge of space
- The Kármán Line: Where does space begin?
- The Sky This Week: Get ready for a Messier marathon
- WATCH: SpaceX’s SN10 Starship prototype safely lands — then explodes
- Cygnus X-1: The black hole that started it all
- Raindrops on other worlds are surprisingly like our own
- Triple star recipe for supersized stellar-mass black holes
- Watch: Preparing humans for life on Mars
- 'Oumumamua and the search for life in the universe
- NASA keeps hiding ‘Easter eggs’ on Mars-bound spacecraft
- The Sky This Month: March 2021
- The Sky This Month: March 2021
- Astronomy reviews Celestron's NexStar Evolution 8HD telescope, equipped with StarSense
- Are the Egyptian pyramids aligned with the stars?
- Galileo’s sunspot sketches get AI-enhanced makeover
Space.com
- How NASA's Apollo Astronauts Went to the Moon
- Why the Lunar Module Looked So Much Like a Moon Bug
- Could NASA Build the Famous Saturn V Today? It's Working on It, with a Twist
- At Solar System's Edge, NASA's Voyager 2 Probe Copes with Reduced Power
- Saturn's Rings Shine Extra Bright This July: How to Catch Them
- In Photos: Soyuz Rocket Launches Russia's Meteor M2-2 Weather Satellite on Rideshare Mission
- Voyager 2 Transformed Our Ideas of Jupiter's Moons 40 Years Ago
- Surface Rupture from Ridgecrest Earthquake Spotted from Space (Photo)
- SpaceX's Starhopper Prototype to Make 1st Untethered Hop Soon, Musk Says
- NASA's 'Green' Fuel Satellite Passes Its First Test
- July Full Moon 2019: 'Thunder Moon' Lunar Eclipse Meets Saturn in the Night Sky
- NASA Announces a Dozen Science and Tech Experiments to Scout the Moon
- India Gearing Up to Launch 2nd Moon Mission This Weekend
- LightSail 2 Beams 1st Photos Home from Orbit! How to Track the Little Satellite.
- Telescope Teamwork Reveals Gas Dwarf Planet's Atmosphere
Universe Today
- Simulations of the Universe are Getting Better and Better at Matching Reality
- Gliese 486b is a Hellish World With Temperatures Above 700 Kelvin
- Dust in the Chixalub Crater Makes the Compelling Case That an Asteroid Wiped out the Dinosaurs 65 Million Years ago
- Space Missions are Building Up a Detailed Map of the Sun’s Magnetic Field
- NASA is Considering a Radio Telescope on the Far Side of the Moon
- A Single Dust Devil on Mars
- Another Big Iceberg Just Broke off from Antarctica
- Nancy Grace Roman Telescope is Getting an Upgraded new Infrared Filter
- Almost all High-Energy Neutrinos Come From Quasars
- A New Study Says That Betelgeuse Won’t Be Exploding Any Time Soon
- How Would Rain be Different on an Alien World?
- Earth’s Atmosphere Can Generate a “Space Hurricane”
- China’s Super-Heavy Lift Rocket Will Carry 100 Tons to the Moon
- Mining Water and Metal From the Moon at the Same Time
- NASA Invests in a Plan to Build Landing Pads and Other Structures on the Moon out of Regolith
British Astronomical Association
- Deep Sky Section Annual Meeting/Webinar - March 6
- Potential meteorite fall near Cheltenham
- BAA Observer’s Challenge : The Messier Marathon 2021
- BAA Solar Section Webinar - Today at 2pm
- Observers Challenge - In the glare of starlight
- South Downs Virtual Planetarium
- Star Count 2021
- Earthshine
- Observer's Challenge - The Eclipses of Algol
- Deep Sky Update - 2020 December
- Absolute Beginners No. 9 - Using filters for visual planetary observations
- Winter Webinars
- BAA Christmas Webinar - Sat 5 Dec 2:30pm GMT
- Observer's Challenge - Jupiter/Saturn Conjunction
- Very Favourable Return of the Geminid Meteor Shower
