Sic Itur Ad Astra – Thus The Way To The Stars : 144 years of astronomy
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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 March 2022 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2019 – 2022 (138th) session will be held on Friday, March 18th from 19:00 to 21:00. Our guest speaker this month is Dr. Luke Hart, Software Engineer at TNEI Services Ltd. focusing on power systems analysis, part of the ESA New Horizons Spectral Distortion Working Group and postdoctoral researcher, PhD student and MPhys student at the University of Manchester. Luke’s lecture is entitled: “Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation: Ripples from the Big Bang” There have been lots of amazing astrophysical discoveries in the 20th century including the first pulsars, the […]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 »
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 »
The February 2020 (Jeremiah Horrocks Memorial Lecture) monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2019 – 2020 (138th) session will be held on Friday, February 21st from 19:00 to 21:00. Our guest speaker this month is Professor Andy Newsam of Liverpool John Moores University, whose lecture is entitled: “Art & Astronomy: Universal Appeal” For centuries science and art went hand-in-hand, but more recently they seem to have diverged into two distinct “cultures”. However, they still have much to gain from each other and in this talk Professor Andy Newsam will describe some forays by an astronomer into the world […]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 »
Join us on Saturday, 20th July at Liverpool’s Central Library for a day celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. We’ll be at the Library from 10am through to 5pm, along with a variety of guests, including regional astronomical societies, academics, interest groups and more. Lectures about the Apollo mission will run throughout the day and there’ll be an assortment of memorabilia, displays, desks and stalls where you can learn and have fun. The event is completely free to attend and no tickets are required – just walk in on the day. For more information please click […]Continue Reading »
(Please note, this is not an LAS organised event) The last two years have seen our ability to study our Universe change forever. For the first time we have been able to not only see the stars in the heavens, but to feel the very vibrations of the fabric of space-time produced when stars collide. In February 2016 the scientists of the international LIGO and Virgo collaborations announced the first detection of gravitational waves – tiny gravitational fluctuations sensed using instruments here on the Earth, but produced around 1.3 billion years ago far out in the cosmos when two dead […]Continue Reading »
The February 2019 (Jeremiah Horrocks Memorial Lecture) monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2018 – 2019 (137th) session will be held on Friday, February 15th from 19:00 to 21:00. Our guest speaker this month is Dr. Allan Chapman FRAS, whose lecture is entitled: “Islands in the Sky; Edwin Hubble, the Galaxies, and the ‘Star’ of Mt. Wilson” Dr. Chapman will talk about the impact of one of the greatest discoveries of the early 20th Century – the size of the known universe; that it was unimaginably larger than previously thought, and the implications and effects this discovery had […]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 »
