Past Events

Talk by Randall Stevenson, Society member and Emeritus Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature in the University of Edinburgh. How did the night sky seem to the Victorians, a century [...]

Talk by Dr John Davies John will review and present some results from the two recent sample return missions to near Earth asteroids. The Japanese Hayabusa-2 capsule has already returned [...]

ASE member Dr Bruce Vickery will tell us more about this topic that he briefly covered in the past. We will also have a couple of short presentations on various [...]

Discoveries in the Outer Solar System Talk by Dr. Samantha Lawler, Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Campion College and the Dept. of Physics University of Regina, Regina, SK, [...]

Talk by Catherine Heymans, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Edinburgh.

Talk by Prof. Petri Vaisanen, Director of the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO). The South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) in Cape Town operates a multitude of telescopes at the Sutherland [...]

Tom Field will explain the science behind spectroscopy and how amateur astronomers can analyse the light from distant objects.