We hold a monthly meeting on the second Saturday of every month at Shurdington Social Centre, Cheltenham, at 7:45pm. For directions on how to get there please click here.
Meetings normally start with a speaker on some subject of astronomical interest, then a break for tea or coffee and a chat, and then a further session which often includes members observational results, what’s up in the sky, or constellation lore. Unless it is clear, in which case we would go out to do some observing.
Programme for 2015
10 January – Mark Gibbons (Cotswold AS)- “Hearts of Darkness – Galaxy Collisions”
14 February – Derek Locke (Cotswold AS) – “Hildas, Trojans and other Surprises”.
7 March – Hosting the British Astronomical Association Deep Sky Section Annual Meeting
14 March – Mark Robinson – “The Stargazer of Hardwicke”
11 April – Annual General Meeting
9 May – Mark Gibbons “A life extraordinarily well lived: Tycho Brahe”. Variously described as “The last truly great astronomer not to use a telescope” and “The drinking man’s thinking man”
13 June – Dr Haley Gomez, Senior Lecturer in Astrophysics, School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University – “New Insights Into The Dusty Universe”
11 July – Gill Norman, Deputy Director of the Initiative for Interstellar Studies – “Planning for an Interstellar Future”.
8 August – Members’ Night
12 September – Richie Jarvis – “My Astronomical Journey”
Richie Jarvis is an IT professional and amateur astronomer based near Brighton in the South of England. After several equipment false starts Richie turned his IT skills to astrophotography. Several of Richie’s images have been displayed in UK Astronomical magazines, and he has written an article for Astronomy Now. Richie also chairs the regular Under British Skies internet radio show on Astronomy.FM
10 October – Dr Chris Baddiley – Cosmology
14 November – Andy Lound – “A fire in the sky” (a dramatic telling of the Tunguska Event, with rare images, video and brought up to date with the latest research)
12 December – Christmas Meeting