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Society Monthly Meetings and Events for Session 1999-2000

Liverpool Astronomical Society Meetings & Events
Session for 1999-2000

Weekly Meetings

When: Every Wednesday 7-9pm (Closed at Xmas/New Year)
For full details of other dates call Observatory Director Mr Brendan Martin on (Contact details removed as no longer valid)
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
1999
Every week on Thursday 7pm – late	Upstairs Meeting Room Ship & Mitre Public House	Details From Director of Observatory Mr Geoff Regan	Meetings continue at NMGM Liverpool Museum until further notice
Friday September 17^th7 – 9pm	Crypt Concert Room, The RC Metropolitan Cathedral, Car Park entrance, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool	Presidential AddressMembers of the Society	Eclipse ’99 Reports
Friday October 15^th7 – 9pm	Crypt Concert Room, The RC Metropolitan Cathedral, Car Park entrance, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool	Dr Allan Chapman, MA,D.Phil.,F.R.A.S., Wadham College, Oxford University	The William Lassell Lecture: The Victorian Transits of Venus, 1874 & 1882
Saturday October 16^th 9.30am – 5.30pm	NMGM Liverpool Martime Museum. Albert Dock, Liverpool	Dr Allan Chapman, Dr Partick Moore, and many others.	400 Years of Astronomy on Merseyside One day History Conference – Astronomical History in Liverpool
Friday November 19^th	Crypt Concert Room, The RC Metropolitan Cathedral, Car Park entrance, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool	Prof F.Richard Stephenson The University of Durham	Oriental Star Maps & Historical Supernovae
Wednesday December 14^th (Not 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
2000
Friday January 21^st7 – 9pm	Crypt Concert Room, The RC Metropolitan Cathedral, Car Park entrance, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool	Mr Kevin Kilburn, Manchester Astronomical Society	The Uranographia Britannica Star Atlas
Saturday 12^th & Sunday 15^th February	Croxteth Hall & Park		Weekend Astronomy Star PartyDetails here (link removed as URL is invalid)
Friday February 18^th7 – 9pm	Crypt Concert Room, The RC Metropolitan Cathedral, Car Park entrance, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool	Mr Rod Hine, Bradford Astronomical Society	Let There be Light – The History of Optics
Friday March 17^th7 – 9pm	Crypt Concert Room, The RC Metropolitan Cathedral, Car Park entrance, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool	Mr Phil Barker, The British Interplanetary Society.	The Russian Space Programme
Friday April 14^th7 – 9pm	Crypt Concert Room, The RC Metropolitan Cathedral, Car Park entrance, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool	Mr Andy Salmon, Birmingham Astronomical Society	Space Station ISS
Saturday May 19^th7 – 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