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Forthcoming
lectures ...
We hold two official meetings every month, a Workshop and a Lecture.
The latter attracts a well-regarded speaker and lasts for one hour with
time for questions afterwards, followed by coffee and a chance to talk
with other members ...
If you intend to visit our Workshop
meetings, there are a few notes of guidance
that we request our members and visitors follow.
Our current lecture schedule for 2006
Saturday 7 January
Sir Robert Stawell-Ball,
1840 - 1915, Astronomer and Populariser
– Dr. Allan
Chapman
Please note change of venue to the Post Graduate
Lecture Theatre, Jodrell Bank
Tuesday 7 February
Jodrell
Bank Workshop
Tuesday 21 February
Cosmology – Dr Richard Battye (Manchester
University)
Tuesday 7 March
Jodrell
Bank Workshop
Tuesday 21 March
Relativistic Jets – Prof Sam Falle (Leeds
University)
Tuesday 4 April
Jodrell
Bank Workshop
Tuesday 18 April
Pre-Telescopic Astronomy – Martin Lunn
Tuesday 2 May
Jodrell
Bank Workshop
Tuesday 16 May
Pulsars Prove Einstein
Right – Sir Francis Graham-Smith
Tuesday 6 June
Jodrell
Bank Workshop
Tuesday 20 June
The Life and Death
of Stars – John Thompson
Tuesday 4 July
Jodrell
Bank Workshop
Tuesday 17 July
TBA
Tuesday 1 August
Jodrell
Bank Workshop
Tuesday 15 August
Optics in Astronomy & Space - from Huygens
to Hubble
– Phil Rogers MBE FREng FInstP
Tuesday 5 September
Jodrell
Bank Workshop
Tuesday 19 September
William Lassel (1799 – 1880) –
Gerard Gilligan
Tuesday 3 October
Jodrell
Bank Workshop
Tuesday 17 October
TBA
Tuesday 7 November
Jodrell
Bank Workshop
Tuesday 21 November
Macclesfield Astronomical Society AGM
Tuesday 5 December
Jodrell
Bank Workshop
Tuesday 19 December
TBA
Please note
Lectures are held at Goostrey
Village Hall on the third Tuesday of every month.
Workshop
meetings are held at Jodrell Bank
Observatory on the first Tuesday of every month.
All
meetings begin at 2000.
Enquiries to Secretary Mike Williamson at secretary@maccastro.com
Workshop
guidance notes
- All visitors must park in main car park.
- All attendees must not congregate/attempt to gain access to the
Control Building until 10 minutes before the meeting is due to start.
- Do not buzz the doorbell at the entrance to the Control Building.
Wait until you are collected and led to the lecture theatre.
- If you are late arriving, once again you must wait at the entrance
to the Control Building until you are collected.
- When leaving, please do so as one group, if possible.
Thank you for your co-operation.
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 March
and April updates ...!
Apologies for the late updating
of the MAS website for March.
As a result I decided to put twice as much work into the update
and include April too ...
Some of us (depending on when you're reading this) will be either
getting excited at the prospect of going to see March's total solar
eclipse, or wondering when on Earth the next one will be - thinking
'I simply must see another one!' No doubt images of the beautiful
event will adorn the pages of this website in the coming weeks.
The following sections have been updated: This month's night sky,
Observations and Gallery.
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