Sic Itur Ad Astra – Thus The Way To The Stars : 144 years of astronomy
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Members of the public are welcome to attend (for free), but please consider joining our Society if you attend more than two monthly meetings. The March 2025 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2024-2025 session will be held on Friday, March 21st from 19:00 to 21:00. About This Meeting Our guest speaker for March 2025 is Dr. Graham Beamson, FRSC. Graham did his first degree in chemistry at the University of Oxford and stayed on to do a DPhil in ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy. He then worked at the University of Durham in infrared and Raman and in x-ray […]Continue Reading »
The April 2022 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2019 – 2022 (138th) session will be held on Friday, April 22nd from 19:00 to 21:00. Our guest speaker this month is Mr. Steve Warbis of Macclesfield Astronomical Society. In addition to speaking for them 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 is entitled: OUR PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE – How Lucky Do You Feel Today? An explanation and illustration of the incredible and fortunate sequence of astronomical […]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 »
This informal and/or short talk will take place on Friday, April 23rd from 19:00 to 21:00. These informal talks are for LAS members only. These talks will be much less formal than the main meetings; there won’t be any Society Business section at the start, and they won’t be minuted. The exact format will depend on the individual talk itself. Could you be the next European Space Agency astronaut? Join Dr. Jackie Bell, mathematician and theoretical particle physicist as she shares her unique experience as a candidate on the BBC documentary series “Astronauts: Do You Have What it Takes?” (iPlayer […]Continue Reading »
This informal and/or short talk will take place on Friday, January 29th from 19:00 to 21:00. These informal talks are for LAS members only. These talks will be much less formal than the main meetings; there won’t be any Society Business section at the start, and they won’t be minuted. The exact format will depend on the individual talk itself. In this talk, Bob Naeye will be joining us from America again. Bob will be talking about the recent announcement of a possible signal from Proxima Centauri – what some have dubbed ‘the new “Wow!” signal’; what are the chances […]Continue Reading »
The December 2020 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2019 – 2020 (138th) session will be held on Friday, December 11th from 19:00 to 21:00. Our guest speaker will be Mr. Robert Naeye, a USA scientific journalist with an extremely interesting talk entitled : “How we find life in the Universe“ Bob talks about the search for life ‘out there’ – from exoplanets to exobiology and beyond; what might we find? Please note, due to COVID-19 this meeting is ONLINE-ONLY. Society members have been sent Zoom & YouTube links. A publicly available recording IS available for […]Continue Reading »
The October 2019 (William Lassell Memorial Lecture) monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2019 – 2020 (138th) session will be held on Friday, October 18th from 19:00 to 21:00. Our guest speaker this month is Ms. Melanie Davies from Creative Space – a Community Interest Company delivering astronomy outreach and public engagement to all ages and abilities. From mobile planetarium shows to free astronomy events, they’ve got space covered in a fun and creative way, and her lecture is entitled: “Titan: A candidate for evolution?” Saturn’s moon, Titan, is a strange and mysterious world; it may even have […]Continue Reading »
The January 2020 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2019 – 2020 (138th) session will be held on Friday, January 17th from 19:00 to 21:00. Our guest speaker this month is Mr. Russell Parry, whose lecture is entitled: “Safe Food Production from the Space Race” Subscriptions for the current session 2019-2020 are now overdue and should have been paid by October 1st. If your subscription is not paid by the end of January, your membership rights (including voting) will lapse, and if not paid by the end of March, your membership may end. Please contact the Treasurer if […]Continue Reading »
The November 2017 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2017 – 2018 (136th) session will be held on Friday, November 17th from 19:00 to 21:30. Our guest speaker this month is Dr. Julian Onions of the University of Nottingham, whose lecture about metallicity in stars is entitled: “Metal Detecting” What are metals to an astronomer, how do they get made, and what can they tell us about the history of the universe in terms of stars and galaxies? Subscriptions for 2016-2017 are now overdue and should have been paid by October 1st. Please contact the Treasurer if you […]Continue Reading »
The January 2018 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2017 – 2018 (136th) session will be held on Friday, January 19th from 19:00 to 21:30. Our guest speaker this month is Mr. Mark Townley of Brierley Hill Solar, whose lecture is entitled: “Our Local Star” Mark Townley gives an overview of the Sun, what can be seen on it and how to see and image it in a range of wavelengths. How does the Sun impact on society and what is the importance of outreach in inspiring the next generation? Subscriptions for 2016-2017 are now overdue and should […]Continue Reading »
