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Monthly Meeting: Prof. Philippa Browning: “The weather in space – how do solar flares affect the Earth?”
Friday, 17th October 2025 @ 19:00 – 21:00 BST
The October 2025 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2025-2026 session will be held on Friday, 17th October from 19:00 to 21:00.
Members of the public are welcome to attend (for free), but please consider joining our Society if you attend more than two monthly meetings. Donations are always welcome but are not required.
About This Meeting
19:00 – 19:20 – Meeting opens with Society business
19:20 – 20:00 – Lecture
20:00 – 20:20 – Tea break in the communal area followed by raffle in the meeting room.
20:20 – 21:00 – Lecture continued followed by Q&A and the Vote of Thanks.
Our guest speaker this month is Professor Philippa Browning, professor of Astrophysics in the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics in the University of Manchester. She was born in London, studied Mathematics at Cambridge, and undertook PhD research on the solar corona at St Andrews. She was the first woman appointed as a physics lecturer in a Manchester university (UMIST). Her research explores the interactions between plasma and magnetic fields, in the atmospheres of the Sun and stars as well as fusion devices. She is particularly interested in explaining how solar flares work and how particles are accelerated in the solar atmosphere. She was awarded the Chapman medal by the Royal Astronomical Society in 2016
The title of her talk is:
The weather in space – how do solar flares affect the Earth?
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Livestream & Recording Information
This meeting will be held at our normal venue of the Quaker Meeting House, and may be live-streamed via YouTube, if I get the equipment set up in time 😊
A recording may be available.
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Note: Membership Fees are correct as of October 2025
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|---|---|
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Free tea/coffee with light refreshments break will form part of the evening at about 8pm.
Please note – Doors will only open after 18:30 and not before.
I do hope you can join me and your fellow members, but if you are unable to attend, please indicate your apologies to me by filling out this form.
With best wishes – Mark