Category Archives: Van Allen Belts

Monthly Meeting: Prof. Philippa Browning: “The weather in space – how do solar flares affect the Earth?”

The October 2025 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2025-2026 session will be held on Friday, 17th October from 19:00 to 21:00. Members of the public are welcome to attend (for free), but please consider joining our Society if you attend more than two monthly meetings. Donations are always welcome but are not required. About This Meeting 19:00 – 19:20 – Meeting opens with Society business19:20 – 20:00 – Lecture20:00 – 20:20 – Tea break in the communal area followed by raffle in the meeting room.20:20 – 21:00 – Lecture continued followed by Q&A and the Vote of […] Continue Reading »

Monthly Meeting: Mr. Sam Walton – “Space Weather”

The September 2021 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society will be held on Friday, September 17th from 19:00 to 21:00. Normally this meeting would have been the Presidential Address we haven’t yet been able to have the AGM, we’ve opted to do this meeting more like a ‘normal’ one, albeit online. Our guest speaker this month is Mr. Sam Walton, of the Space Plasma Physics Group, in the Department of Space & Climate Physics, in the Mullard Space Science Laboratory at University College London, whose lecture is entitled: “Space Weather“ The Sun is an essential ingredient for life on Earth, […] Continue Reading »