Meetings and events in summer 2010
Any changes to our meeting arrangements will be put on our website http://www.astronomyedinburgh.org/. The list below may include events not held by the Society, but of interest to members or to those interested in astronomy.
- Apr 2nd
- NB: No meeting in April due to Good Friday.
- Apr 3rd - 17th
- Edinburgh
International Science Festival
with many events about astronomy, geology, etc. - Apr 21st
- 19:30, Juniper Green Village Hall
Imaging Group - Apr 27th
- 17:30, Room LT175, Old College, South Bridge
Dr Adam Mosley, Swansea University
Mapping renaissance astronomy: People, places, problems
Crawford Lecture, held by the Crawford Project (see poster, 2.7 MByte PDF) - May 7th
- 20:00, Church Centre, AUC
Dr Ross McLure, Royal Observatory Edinburgh
Searching for the highest redshift galaxies in the universe - Jun 4th
- 20:00, Church Centre, AUC
Dr Alistair Glasse, Royal Observatory Edinburgh
The JWST - Replacing the Hubble Space Telescope - Jul 2nd
- 20:00, Church Centre, AUC
Dr Christiane Helling, University of St Andrews
Making extraterrestrial jewellery - Jul 22nd
- 20:00, Filmhouse cinema, 88 Lothian Road
Prof Malcolm Longair, former Astronomer Royal for Scotland
Dark matter
Science talk, followed by the 2009 movie Star Trek. - Aug 6th
- NB: No meeting in August due to the Fringe Festival.
- Sep 10th
- 20:00, Church Centre, AUC
Dr Martin Hendry, University of Glasgow
Gravitational wave astronomy: Opening a new window on the universe
NB: This is the second Friday of the month.
