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Young Astronomers’ Club: The Moon

Our popular Young Astronomers’ Club continues this month. The topic for the evening will be The Moon. Depending on the weather, hopefully there will also be some practical astronomy outside. Please note that this is the last planned Young Astronomers’ Club for this session until they restart in around October. Continue Reading »
The image is a cover slide for a lecture to Liverpool Astronomical Society on 21st February 2025 by Dr. Steve Barrett of the University of Liverpool entitled "Cosmic Rays". The background is a picture of the Earth in space, with cosmic rays entering its atmosphere. The cosmic rays appear as thin streaks of light in the very upper atmosphere which expand into narrow, feathery cones of fainter particles as they get closer to the surface of the planet. Overlaid in the bottom right is a multicoloured 4x5 grid which reads left-to-right, from top-to-bottom: STAR WARS HAIL RAIN RAYS to the left of the word RAYS, outside of the grid and above the backdrop of the Earth is the word COSMIC.

Monthly Meeting: Dr. Steve Barrett – “Cosmic Rays”

The February 2025 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2024-2025 session will be held on Friday, February 21st from 19:00 to 21:20. About This Meeting Please note that this meeting’s running order will be slightly altered from the usual, with the lecture taking place from 19:00 and Society Business after the tea-break. Please try to arrive on time or you may miss the beginning of a very interesting talk. 19:00 – 20:30 – Meeting opens, and lecture begins promptly, followed by Q&A and Vote of Thanks20:30 – 20:50 – Tea break in the communal area followed by raffle […] Continue Reading »

Monthly Meeting: LAS Members’ Short-Talks.

The December 2024 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2024-2025 session will be held on Friday, December 13th from 19:00 to 21:00. Please note: This is the second Friday of the month, not the third. Members papers followed by tea/coffee and mince pies. Members of the public are welcome to attend (for free), but please consider joining our Society if you attend more than two monthly meetings. For our December meeting, we do not have a guest speaker from an external organisation but talks from one or more of or own Members. The speakers and titles of the […] Continue Reading »

Monthly Meeting: Dr. Julian Onions – “Crazy Interstellar Rockets!”

About This Meeting Our guest speaker for April 2025 is Dr. Julian Onions, of the University of Nottingham, and he will be giving us a talk about: Crazy Interstellar Rockets! What sort of rockets or spaceships could we use to go to the distant stars? We will explore some of the crazier designs that have been proposed over the years, most of which have some possibility of working? The future may be nearer than we think! Continue Reading »

Monthly Meeting: Dr. Steve Barrett – Christmas Short Talks

Our guest speaker for November 2024 was to be Mr Gary Palmer – Introduction to Deep Sky Imaging however ill-health means that the planned talk will need to be rescheduled. Dr. Steve Barrett has kindly stepped in, and will be giving two shorter presentations in place of one long one: Continue Reading »