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Hull and East Riding

Astronomical Society

Programme of Lectures 2024/2025


All lectures take place at the Civic Centre in Cottingham.   

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We meet in the room above the main hall: there is a lift.

Same entrance as the main hall, and doors open 7:15pm for a 7:30pm start.

Monday   21st  October 2024                           Please note: That was, unusually, the third Monday

‘Satellite Monitoring of Our Hazardous Planet’


by Prof. Tim Wright (University of Leeds)


Monday   11th November 2024      

‘Skylab – NASA’s forgotten triumph’


by John Dunthorne  (Cleethorpes and District Astronomical Society)


Monday   9th December 2024     

‘Fly Me To The Moon: The Science of Putting Humans on Another World’


by Dr Chris Arridge


Monday   13th January 2025

‘Planet Formation/Exoplanets’


by Dr Richard Booth (University of Leeds)


Thursday 6th February - as part of National Astronomy Week


A special stargazing open event in the Civic Centre



Monday 10th February 2025               ** NB Change of Speaker **

‘The Big Picture’

by Brian Davies as stand-in


‘The Moon’

by Dave Armeson, York Astronomical Society not present


Monday 10th March 2025                ** NB Change of Speaker **

‘The CSIRO Parkes Radio Dish and Siding Springs Observatory - An Australian Adventure’


by Peter Rea (Cleethorpes Astronomical Society)


Note that the original plan, ‘First Steps in Amateur Radio Astronomy’

by Rod Hine MA (Cantab) MIEE MBCS (Bradford Astronomical Society) is postponed


Monday    14th April 2025                                       (Easter Monday is 21st April in 2025)  

‘Part Two of the James Webb Space Telescope Story’


by Tim Old (HERAS/BLAS member)

      


Monday    12th May 2025    

‘The Solar Cycle and Carrington’s Solar Event’


by Neil Waby and John Chapman-Smith, Solar Director and Former Solar Director of the                                                                Society for Popular Astronomy (SPA)


Monday    9th June 2025

‘Black Holes - Friend or Foe?’


by Prof. Brad Gibson (Formerly of the University of Hull, Retired)



Monday    14th July 2025        Annual General Meeting


Plus an update on the year’s activities…


by members of East Riding Astronomers (ERA) and Brough Astronomy (BLAS)

 

This July meeting includes our AGM






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