Spacetime Distortion by the Neutrino
ASE member and amateur astrophysicist, Gareth Mayze has written a paper with his new theory using the neutrino to solve a number of the biggest gravitational mysteries. What do you think?
15 September 2023 Meeting Report
Nigel Goodman reports on an excellent talk by Charlie Bracken and Max Whitby on their attempt to create a single image of the entire night sky.
Members Night 8 September 2023 report
A really excellent Members Night with a wide-ranging selection of short talks from ASE members. Lazy and cheap astronomy, Neutrinos and galaxy rotation, Smartscopes, Great Melbourne Telescope, Ralph Copeland and the Sky in September.
Visit to the paradise of meteorites
Radim Stano tells us about his visit to the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien to see its meteorite collection. A great place to visit if you're in the area.
Image of the Quarter Competition winner, Apr – Jun 2023
Congratulations to Pat Clough, one of our remote members who lives in London, for his amazing image of a huge solar prominence. Well done to to everyone who entered - all images were really good.
Meeting Report Friday 7th July 2023
To start the meeting our Vice President Peter Black updated us on the upcoming Society programme. Peter also pointed out that our membership now stands at a very healthy 182. We were joined this evening by Dr Pamela Klaassen, a [...]
2 June 2023 Meeting Report
Prof. Andy Lawrence gave us a really interesting talk on 200 years of the history of astronomical imaging at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh. Jim Nisbet also covered the Sky in June and this was followed by an SGM and our AGM.
Meeting Report 19 May 2023
Indigenous Australian Astronomy - Dr Pete Kuzma. This evening we had a fascinating and thought provoking talk from Dr Pete Kuzma of Edinburgh University. We were first introduced to the complexity and likely means of arrival, 45 - 65,000 years ago, in what would become modern Australia of the many nations of indigenous people from the Torres Strait to Tasmania.
Noctilucent Clouds
Ramsay McIver tells us about these beautiful, ethereal "night-shining clouds" as we approach NLC season towards the end of May.
Northern Lights Trip
ASE member, Eros Tang, tells us about his trip to Norway and the amazing aurora images he captured.
7 April 2023 Members Night report
We had a really enjoyable members night on Friday with a number of short presentations from members. The personal stories and journeys were really fascinating and well-told.
Image of the Quarter Jan – Mar 2023 Winner
The winner of the Image of the Quarter Jan - Mar 2023 is M31 Andromeda Galaxy by Pat Devine.
Icelandic Northern Lights
Ian Smith reports on his recent trip to Iceland and his successful observations of the aurorae
17 March 2023 Meeting Report
We had a very interesting talk from Dr Roberta Zanin from Bologna in Italy about The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory: a new eye on the most extreme Universe. Jim Nisbet reviews the talk for us.
Flashes of Creation by Paul Halpern book review
Pate Devine reviews the book "Flashes of Creation" by Paul Halpern, a readable and fascinating account of the lives of theoretical physicist, George Gamov, and physicist, Fred Hoyle, and their competing theories on the formation of the universe.
3 March 2023 Meeting Report
We had an excellent talk from Dr Thomas Wilson of the University of St Andrews. He covered the life-cycle of a planetary system: how they are born, live and die and how advances in both ground- and space-based telescopes have [...]
Telescope Help Shop 2023
The ASE held its fifth Telescope Help Shop on Saturday the 25th Feb at St Thomas Church hall in Corstorphine. 21 people attended aided by 9 ASE members. A diverse range of instruments was brought along supplemented by some members’ scopes. All attendees expressed their gratitude for the opportunity to talk about their specific issues as well as the general points covered.
The Gegenschein
A report by Douglas Heggie about a by-product of an observation he was making of a comet using a telescope at the Utah Desert Remote Observatory in the USA.