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Society Monthly Meetings and Events for Session 2000-2001

Liverpool Astronomical Society Meetings & Events
Session for 2000-2001

Weekly Meetings

When: Every Wednesday 7-9pm (Closed at Xmas/New Year)
For full details of other dates call Observatory Director
Where: Liverpool Astronomical Society’s Leighton Observatory,
Pex Hill,
Cronton,
near Widnes,
Cheshire,
WA8 5QW
Maps are available by clicking here.

Date	Venue	Guest speaker	Subject & Title
2000
Every week on Wednesday 7pm – late	Meeting room, Leighton Observatory, Pex Hill, Cronton, near Widnes, Cheshire, WA8 5QW	Details From Director of Observatory Mr Geoff Regan	Weekly meetings move to Weds 7-9pm at Pex Hill Observatory
Friday September 15^th 7 – 9pm	Crypt Concert Room, The RC Metropolitan Cathedral, Car Park entrance, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool		Monthly Meeting and Cheese & Wine Reception
		Mr Gerard Gilligan	The 119th Presidential Address
			Austrian Delights – The Grumden Observatory
Friday October 20^th 7 – 9pm	Crypt Concert Room, The RC Metropolitan Cathedral, Car Park entrance, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool	Dr J.Eric Jones, F.R.A.S., Liverpool Astronomical Society.	The 13th William Lassell Memorial Lecture: 2,500 Years of LAS Eclipse Expeditions
Friday November 17^th	Crypt Concert Room, The RC Metropolitan Cathedral, Car Park entrance, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool	Dr Allan Chapman, M.A.,F.R.A.S., Wadham College, University of Oxford.	Giovanni Domenicon Cassini, 1625-1712; Europe’s First Professor of Astronomy.
Saturday and Sunday, December 2^nd and 3^rd6.30pm – 9.30pm	Croxteth Hall & Park		Weekend Astronomy Star Party: Details Here
Friday December 14^th (2nd Friday)7 – 9pm	Crypt Concert Room, The RC Metropolitan Cathedral, Car Park entrance, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool	Members of Liverpool A.S.	Members Observations and Research Presentations
2001
Friday January 19^th 7 – 9pm	Crypt Concert Room, The RC Metropolitan Cathedral, Car Park entrance, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool	Dr Nigel Metcalfe, Dept of Physics, The University of Durham.	Imaging at the Final Frontier – The Hubble & Herschel Deep Fields
Friday February 16^th 7 – 9pm	Crypt Concert Room, The RC Metropolitan Cathedral, Car Park entrance, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool	Mr Martin Lunn M.B.E., Yorkshire Museum	To be confirmed
Friday March 16^th 7 – 9pm	Crypt Concert Room, The RC Metropolitan Cathedral, Car Park entrance, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool	Dr Ann Bonnell, Leicester Astronomical Society	Percival Lowell and the Canels of Mars
Friday April 20^th 7 – 9pm	Crypt Concert Room, The RC Metropolitan Cathedral, Car Park entrance, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool	Mr Robert Johnson, Liverpool Astronomical Society.	CCD Astronomy
Friday May 18^th 7 – 9pm	Crypt Concert Room, The RC Metropolitan Cathedral, Car Park entrance, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool		AGM will be followed by LAS Members’ observational images & reports
June – August: No Monthly Meetings, however Weekly Meetings continue at Pex Hill Observatory during the Summer Months