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 [...]
Imaging & Observing Group
For ASE members
The Red Sun
OnlineTalk by Lyn Smith Lyn Smith is the current Director of the BAA Solar Section and she will take us on a journey through the solar atmosphere or Chromosphere, viewed [...]
Gamma-Ray Bursts, Black holes, Neutron Stars and Gravitational Waves
Augustine United Church 41 George IV Bridge, EdinburghTalk by Dr Max Ruffert, University of Edinburgh We will also have the Sky in March from Alan Pickup. Gamma-ray bursts have been described as the biggest bangs since the [...]
Imaging & Observing Group
OnlineFor ASE members. We wil have Bruce Waddington along to talk to us about PHD guiding.
Telescope Help Shop FULLY BOOKED
St Thomas's Church, Gyle Hall 75-79 Glasgow Road, EdinburghThis event is now FULLY BOOKED so if you haven't already registered them I'm afraid there are no spaces. You can register for a future one by getting in touch [...]
HF Meteor Trail Reflections Observed at Anchorage, Alaska USA
OnlineTalk by Whitham D Reeve Many interesting phenomena can be observed in the high frequency radio band including meteor trail reflections, radio blackouts, sudden frequency deviations, aurora reflections, aircraft reflections, [...]