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 |
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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 15th 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 20th
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 17th | 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 2nd and 3rd6.30pm – 9.30pm |
Croxteth Hall & Park | Weekend Astronomy Star Party: Details Here | |
Friday December 14th (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 19th
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 16th
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 16th
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 20th
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 18th
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 |