Sic Itur Ad Astra – Thus The Way To The Stars : 144 years of astronomy
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The October 2021 (William Lassell Memorial Lecture) monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society will be held on Friday, October 15th from 19:00 to 21:00. Our guest speaker this month is Mr. Andy Briggs who will be joining us from Spain with his talk: “How to Photograph a Black Hole“ Join Andy Briggs as he explains exactly how an international team of scientists and engineers acquired the famous image of the supermassive black hole in M87. This talk compliments the recent talk from Professor Derek Ward-Thompson on a similar topic. Please note, due to COVID-19 this meeting is ONLINE-ONLY. […]Continue Reading »
The March 2021 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2019 – 2021 (138th) session will be held on Friday, March 19th from 19:00 to 21:00. I am very pleased to tell you that this Friday we have speaking for us Professor Derek Ward-Thompson of the University of Central Lancashire. This talk, which was highly requested, was originally planned for March 2020, however the pandemic derailed things. Our guest speaker will be Professor Derek Ward-Thompson, Head of the School of Physical Sciences and Computing at the University of Central Lancashire, Director of the Jeremiah Horrocks Institute and President of […]Continue Reading »
This event has been cancelled or postponed due to the Coronavirus situation The March 2020 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2019 – 2020 (138th) session will be held on Friday, March 20th from 19:00 to 21:00. Our guest speaker this month is Professor Derek Ward-Thompson, Head of the School of Physical Sciences and Computing at the University of Central Lancashire, Director of the Jermiah Horrocks Institute and President of the UK Society for Popular Astronomy. Professor Ward-Thompson’s lecture is entitled: “How to Take a Picture of a Black Hole” You will almost certainly recognise some of Derek’s […]Continue Reading »
Please note, the date of this event has changed to the 1st of August – it was previously scheduled for 18th July As part of the informal activities initiative, Mr. Andy Sierslowski from The Astronomy Centre in Yorkshire will be visiting us to show members how they can do radio astronomy from their own homes. Andy has a love of both visual and radio astronomy, and is a true ‘professional’ amateur, making his own aerials which can detect objects such as the sun and Jupiter, as well as meteorites (via reflected radio signals). It’s a fascinating branch of astronomy, and […]Continue Reading »
The October 2018 (William Lassell Memorial Lecture) monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2018 – 2019 (137th) session will be held on Friday, October 19th from 19:00 to 21:00. Our guest speaker this month is Mr. William Stewart of the Network for Meteor Triangulation and Orbit Determination, whose lecture is entitled: “Shooting While You Sleep: Modern Methods of Detecting & Analysing Meteors” Mr. Stewart will talk about how meteor observations can be aided with the use of computers and electronic detection methods, such as automated imaging of visual meteors and detection of meteors using radio receiver equipment. Subscriptions […]Continue Reading »
The March 2019 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2018 – 2019 (137th) session will be held on Friday, March 22nd from 19:00 to 21:00. Please note that this is the 4th Friday of the month, not the 3rd Friday. Our guest speaker this month is Dr. Rob Lyon of the Universities of Liverpool and Manchester, whose lecture is entitled: “The Square Kilometre Array: Astronomy at Scale” Dr. Lyon will talk about his work helping to design the world’s largest radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array and how the Array will be used Subscriptions for the current session […]Continue Reading »
The March 2017 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for session 2016-17, will take place on Friday, March 17th 2017 from 7pm. Our guest speaker this month is Dr. Rene Breton of the University of Manchester, with a lecture entitled: “Einstein’s Relativity: Tested to the Limit with Pulsars” Dr. Breton writes: Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity was published in 1915. In over a century it has not failed a single time despite hundreds of tests and experiments. One of the most extreme environments in which to benchmark Relativity and possible alternative theories of gravity is around pulsars (after black holes, the […]Continue Reading »
