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, [...]
Imaging & Observing Group
OnlineFor ASE members only Image credit: M31 Mike McGovern
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 [...]
Going beyond Einstein to understand the Universe
Augustine United Church 41 George IV Bridge, EdinburghTalk by Dr. Indranil Banik, University of St Andrews. We will also have the Sky in December from Alan Pickup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4hbqOiDQSY What holds galaxies together? The answer is not known [...]
Imaging & Observing Group
OnlineFor ASE members only Image credit: Soul Nebula in Ha, Eros Tang
Exploring the Invisible Cosmos Through Island Universes
OnlineTalk by Dr Jenifer Millard. Did you know that just a century ago, the Milky Way was the entire Universe? Astonishing really, when today there are likely more galaxies in [...]
Claiming the sky back
Augustine United Church 41 George IV Bridge, EdinburghTalk by Ria Urban, in person at the AUC and online. The talk is going to start be referring back to the “Losing the Sky” talk from a year ago, [...]
Imaging & Observing Group
OnlineFor ASE members only Image credit: IC1499 - California nebula, Pat Devine
Hearing the Light: Astronomy Data Sonification
OnlineTalk by Clara Brasseur, University of St Andrews Sonification is the process of representing data as sound. Rather than looking at a chart or graph, the underlying information can be [...]