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The Ikarus Observatory – A First Light Optics Community Project
OnlineGrant from First Light Optics is going to be talking about version 2 of the Ikarus Observatory a remote observatory project in the South of Spain. Version 1 launched just [...]
Imaging & Observing Group
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Discovering and Imaging Planetary Nebulae
Augustine United Church 41 George IV Bridge, EdinburghTalk by Peter Goodhew In the past 10 years amateur astronomers have made a significant contribution to astronomical research by discovering hundreds of new planetary nebulae, as well as other [...]
The Global Meteor Network: A planet-sized scientific instrument
OnlineTalk by Denis Vida With the increased space presence and the prospect of asteroid mining, understanding the near-Earth meteoroid environment is becoming essential to mitigating meteoroid impact hazard to spacecraft. [...]
Space weather and how it affects ground-based technology
Augustine United Church 41 George IV Bridge, EdinburghTalk by Gemma Richardson of the Geomagnetism team at the British Geological Survey. We will also have the Sky in October from Alan Pickup. Space weather is a relative newcomer [...]
Imaging & Observing Group
OnlineRadio Astronomy Workshop ASE members only. Special guest Paul Hearn of the BAA.
Art and its influence on our understanding of the cosmos
OnlineTalk by Greg Smye-Rumsby For millenia, art has played a key role in unravelling the mysteries of the cosmos. Stories about the heavens and the position of the ’star signs’ [...]
WE ARE GO! Partial solar eclipse livestream
OnlineForecast is partly cloudy so we hope for gaps in the clouds. We will be livestreaming on YouTube the partial solar eclipse using the historic 6-inch Cooke telescope on Calton [...]
The Pluto Story
Augustine United Church 41 George IV Bridge, EdinburghA talk from Professor Ian Robson, BSc, Phd, FRAS, CPhys, FInstP. Royal Observatory Edinburgh Fellow. In person at the AUC and online via YouTube. This talk is all about Pluto, [...]
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What makes a planet habitable? – From life on Earth to life on extrasolar planets
OnlineTalk by Patrick Barth, University of St Andrews In the last 25 years we have found thousands of planets around other stars, but so far we were not able to [...]