Sic Itur Ad Astra – Thus The Way To The Stars : 144 years of astronomy
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Liverpool AS will joining Liverpool World Museum once again for an interesting evening of telescopes, talks and planetarium shows. The event will start at 5.30pm, however, the Museum’s cafe will remain open from 4 until 8pm, with the event closing at 9pm. The amazing World Museum shop will be open from 17.30 – 8pm for you to grab yourself a gift. Although this event is not free, tickets are low cost and are available on the World Museum event page here where you will also find the full line-up for the talks and planetarium shows.Continue Reading »
Liverpool AS will be joining Liverpool World Museum once again for an interesting evening of telescopes, talks and planetarium shows. The event will start at 5.30pm, however, the Museum’s cafe will remain open from 4 until 8pm, with the event closing at 9pm. The amazing World Museum shop will be open from 17.30 – 8pm for you to grab yourself a gift. Although this event is not free, tickets are low cost and are available on the World Museum event page here where you will also find the full line-up for the talks and planetarium shows.Continue Reading »
Liverpool AS will joining Liverpool World Museum once again for an interesting evening of telescopes, talks and planetarium shows. Although this event is not free, tickets are low cost and are available on the World Museum event page here where you will also find the full line-up for the talks and planetarium shows.Continue Reading »
The October 2022 (William Lassell Memorial Lecture) monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2022-2023 session will be held on Friday, October 21st from 19:00 to 21:00. Our guest speaker this month is Mr. Steve Warbis of Macclesfield Astronomical Society, who you may remember joined us before our summer break for a different lecture. In addition to speaking for his own Society and other organisations, Steve is an active member of Macclesfield AS as their Field Trip Co-ordinator and former Chairman, as well as a keen urban astrophotographer. Steve’s lecture this month is entitled: Completely Over (and Under) the […]Continue Reading »
‘Cronton Sun Moon and Stars’ is a celebration of Cronton’s links to stargazing and astronomy with a glowing planetarium in the pasture. A free ticket is required. Please see their event page for more information.Continue Reading »
Liverpool Astronomical Society in association with Liverpool Central Library and Liverpool World Museum would like to invite everybody to join us on Saturday, 10th December 2022 for a day celebrating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 17 – currently standing as the final manned mission to the moon. This event is taking place simultaneously in two prominent city centre venues, conveniently located next door to each other – Liverpool Central Library, and Liverpool World Museum, both on William Brown Street, Liverpool, L3 8EW. Entry to the activities and information desks in Central Library is free. Talks being held at the World […]Continue Reading »
The first Monthly Meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2022 – 2023 (139th) session will be held on Friday, September 16th from 19:00 to 21:00. Those of you wishing to become members may do so at this meeting (see below for more information.) This meeting is our Presidential Address, and as such our speaker is LAS President Mr. Steve Southern, whose lecture is entitled: Focus on Zeiss Slides from the Gemini/Apollo Era Zeiss produced slides in the early days of the NASA Gemini and Apollo missions. The Society has obtained a set of these. My talk describes the slides […]Continue Reading »
The December 2021 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2019 – 2021 (138th) session will be held on Friday, December 10th from 19:00 to 21:00. The tradition is for the December monthly meeting to have speakers from our own Society. As such we will continue with that tradition and we have three very interesting talks from three of our very own well known and respected members. Our speakers this month and the titles of their talks are as follows: Name Talk Title Mr. David Galvin FRAS Imaging Neptune’s Moon, Triton Mr. Gerard Gilligan A Tale of Two Observatories […]Continue Reading »
The April 2021 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2019 – 2021 (138th) session will be held on Friday, April 16th from 19:00 to 21:00. Our guest speaker this month is Mr. Pete Williamson FRAS, Astronomer & Broadcaster with the Faulkes Telescope Project Astro Radio & the BBC, whose lecture is entitled: “Moons of the Solar System” A guide to the major Moons within our Solar System and what we know. Please note that this lecture will only be available live – it will not be available as a recording afterwards. The structure of the meeting is expected […]Continue Reading »
The February 2021 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2019 – 2021 (138th) session will be held on Friday, February 19th from the earlier time of 18:40 to 21:00. This month’s meeting is going to be structured a little differently than normal – it’s not so much a lecture as a cinematic documentary experience. Our guest speaker will be Dr. Kevin Bowman of the University of Central Lancashire. Kevin’s presentation is entitled: “Apollo 13: Lucky for Some?“ On April 13th 1970 the Apollo 13 spacecraft was headed for the Moon, passing 200,000 miles from the Earth when an “incident” […]Continue Reading »
