Hello Everyone!
I have updated the Events Calendar with all the latest up coming Talks and Events.
As more events are confirmed I will add them in the next coming months. We have a few guest speakers lined up for you this coming year and more to confirm!
Clear Skies all !
Andy
This last quarters Astro Photo Winner is Frank Dutton with a nice view of the Milky Way from Pilanesberg National Park in South Africa during a trip he made recently.
Frank took this image with a Panasonic Lumix GF5 Camera at 28mm on a 15 se second exposure using ISO set to 1600.
What is amazing too is that Frank took this under some fear of the local wild life, as he was warned there maybe Baboons in the vicinty so he didnt’t want to hang around outside too long! Also where he stayed there was some light pollution from the local camp.
Well done Frank!
UPDATE: A Fantastic talk by Dr Carolin Crawford was enjoyed by all. We look forward to your next visit to KLADAS next year! Thank you so much!
A Talk by Dr Carolin Crawford
Next Monday 23rd May – 7:30pm
(Please view our events page for more info on location)We are proud to host Dr Carolin Crawford who returns once again to amaze and delight our Astronomical thirst for knowledge of the beauty and science of Astronomy and Space.
Talk: The Beauty and Science of Nebulae
This talk is about interstellar space – not truly a vacuum devoid of matter, but inhabited by vast thin clouds of gas and dust that appear as glorious and complex structures. Dr Carolin Crawford will showcase some of the most spectacular images of these ‘nebulae’, including many taken with the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes. She will lead us to look at them with new eyes, deconstructing the pictures and learning how to ‘read’ what they tell us about the turbulent story of the birth and death of stars. Indeed, revealing the science behind the beauty.
Professor Crawford’s primary research interests are in combining X-ray, optical and near-infrared observations to study the physical processes occurring around massive galaxies at the core of clusters of galaxies. In particular, she observes the complex interplay between the hot intra-cluster medium, filaments of warm ionized gas, cold molecular clouds, star formation and the radio plasma flowing out from the central supermassive black hole.
Members: £3.00
Non Members: £5.00
Press release for Transit of Mercury
A competition (just for fun) was arranged for Image of the Month for March 2016. All members were emailed and invited to contribute images for the competition. The intention was to trial out our very first photo competition and then base the new forthcoming competition on this with a few tweaks.
We had 12 images entered from 4 members:-
Alan Gosling
Cherrelle Blake
David Talbot
John Raymond
Please click on our Gallery link from the main menu, to see all the entries and find out who won! 🙂
Or here is a direct link…
This Monday we have the pleasure of guest speaker Paul Fellows from the Cambridge Astronomical Association giving us a talk.
Fire and Ice: The Volcanic worlds of the Solar System.
Members: £3
Non Members: £5
More details on our Events Calendar.
Sad news. Well the forecast is changing hourly and the rain and cloud radar are not looking good. Other forecasts are looking equally bad. So the obs session has been called off tonight.
Let’s hope we can get another chance next time.
Monday 22nd February – 7:30pm – 9:00pm
A Tutorial based showhow evening on how to process your astrophotography. Short examples on how to bring the best out of your images using easily available software. Tonights showhow will centre on Lunar images, and widefield night sky images.
Be aware this is not a usual Talk night and this evening is intended to give live tutorials on how to process your astro photos.
£3.00 Members
£5.00 Non Members ( First visit Free )
RSPB Titchwell Outreach Event 03/02/2016
Wednesday 03/02/2016 saw the Society back at RSPB Titchwell for another outreach event organised by our hosts. The paying members of the RSPB were treated to a guided tour of the hides at Titchwell and also some sites of very rare birds. Once they had finished with that part of the evening they headed back along the path to join us with our scopes and binos for a tour around the night sky. John had previously given them all a brief talk on what that would see with us. To our great fortune the weather was on our side and we had a wonderful clear sky to show them. Orion was absolutely beautiful as was the rest of the night sky.
Once we had set all the scopes and binos out along what is a narrow little pathway we were ready to great our guest for the evening. Richard, Terry and Alan were on hand to give a great narrative on what everyone was looking at. We had several very good questions fired at us during the session and everyone seemed very pleased with our explanations of the night sky and constellations. But unfortunately the sky turned against us and quite quickly covered itself up in a large blanket of cloud which was very disappointing. But at least everyone had had a good view. Just after everyone had left the cloud shifted out of the way and we had nice clear sky again. So John and I stayed on for a bit longer but eventually the cold got to our old bones so we also packed up and headed homeward.
But we all had a very good evening at such a lovely dark sky site and we all will look forward to our next visit to RSPB Titchwell and the very welcoming staff and volunteers who work there.
Leon Askew – Membership Secretary
Wednesday 3 February
4 pm
Price: Adults £6, child £4 (£1 discount for RSPB members)
Booking essential
Titchwell Marsh nature reserve
http://www.rspb.org.uk/discoverandenjoynature/seenature/events/details.aspx?id=tcm:9-412587