How to Get Started in Night Photography
OnlineTalk by Mike Shaw. We will also have the Sky in October. This Night Photography 101 presentation will give you everything you need to know to photograph the night sky [...]
Imaging & Observing Group meeting
OnlineFor ASE members only We will have experienced amateur astronomer Martin Lewis with us for this meeting, showing us how he produces his amazing images of the planets. You can [...]
ASTEROIDS: How Love, Fear, and Greed will Determine our Future in Space
OnlineThe biggest industry that could come into being in space is the mining of the asteroids. Enabling this to happen will lead to a new flourishing of astronomy and planetary science (love), will protect Earth from dinosaur-killer asteroids (fear), and will lead to a time of material abundance (greed). I will discuss how this all may come about.
The Accretion and Inner Disk of Pre-Main-Sequence Stars
Augustine United Church 41 George IV Bridge, EdinburghAn insight into some real astronomical research from a professional astronomer. Talk by Dr Justyn Campbell-White from the University of Dundee. Low- and intermediate-mass stars acquire most of their mass [...]
Imaging & Observing Group meeting
OnlineFor ASE members Image credit: Bat Nebula, Pat Devine
A Nightwatchman’s Journey: The Road Not taken
OnlineTalk by David H. Levy It will consider the story of my life as someone who fought depression and asthma to lead a life of the night sky, 23 comet [...]
Finding Space Rocks / Sky in December
Augustine United Church 41 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh‘Finding Space Rocks’ offers insight and knowledge to help identify and find Meteorites. The presenter also describes his meteorite hunting adventures with photos and videos and there is a competition for one viewer to win a meteorite.
Imaging & Observing Group meeting
OnlineFor ASE members Image credit: M1 Crab Nebula, Mark Phillips
Thomas Cooke: Telescope Maker to the Empire
OnlineTalk by Martin Lunn MBE FRAS, former Curator of Astronomy, Yorkshire Museum, York (The Rambling Astronomer) Born into a poor family, this is a rags to riches story about a [...]
Nevil Maskelyne and the global projects of 18th-century astronomy – online only
OnlineNote: Online Only Talk by Dr Rebekah Higgitt, Principal Curator of Science at National Museums Scotland. Focusing on the career and connections of the Fifth Astronomer Royal, Nevil [...]
Building galaxies one star at a time
OnlineTalk by Dr Elizabeth Stanway of the University of Warwick Galaxies can now be seen to vast distances, looking back in time to less than a billion years [...]
Renovating the 20″ Grubb Parsons Telescope at Glasgow Uni
Augustine United Church 41 George IV Bridge, EdinburghTalk by Prof Giles Hammond, University of Glasgow. We will also have the Sky in February from Horst Meyerdierks and Andrew Farrow will give a presentation about our Charles Tulley [...]