Sic Itur Ad Astra – Thus The Way To The Stars : 143 years of astronomy
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The May 2021 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2019 - 2021 (138th) session will be held on Friday, May 21st from 19:00 to 21:00. Normally our AGM would take place in May, however the ongoing pandemic prevents it at present. Our guest speaker this month is Mr. Paul Money FRAS, FBIS, whose lecture is entitled: "Why Are There No Green Stars?" This talk explores how we see and perceive colour and why when we view the stars, there appear to be no green stars out there! Please note that this lecture will only be available live - […]
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, […]
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. […]
The Quaker Meeting House in Liverpool City Centre
The Quaker Meeting House, 22 School Lane, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom
The November 2021 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2019 - 2021 (138th) session will be held on Friday, November 19th from 19:00 to 21:00. Our guest speaker this month is Dr. Steve Barrett, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Physics at the University of Liverpool, whose lecture is entitled: "Fiat Lux III" 'Fiat Lux' (Nov 2019) was a talk/demo on the nature of light. 'Fiat Lux II' (Nov 2020) looked at how the nature of light influences the design and construction of optical telescopes. The final talk in this trilogy describes a new telescope that will […]
The Quaker Meeting House in Liverpool City Centre
The Quaker Meeting House, 22 School Lane, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom
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 […]
The January 2022 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2019 - 2022 (138th) session will be held on Friday, January 21st from 19:00 to 21:00. Our guest speaker this month is Mr. Robert (Bob) Naeye, award-winning freelance journalist and former editor in chief of Sky & Telescope and Mercury magazines. Bob's lecture is entitled: "Who Says Astronomy Can't Be Funny?" Astronomy is not just complex, serious business. It has provided fodder for creative cartoonists for decades. Former Sky & Telescope editor in chief Robert Naeye will present many dozens of his favourite astronomy and space cartoons, covering themes […]
The February 2022 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2019 - 2022 (138th?) session will be held on Friday, February 18th from 19:00 to 21:00. Our guest speaker this month is Prof. Karim Jaffer from John Abbott College in Montreal, Canada. Karim is the Public Events Coordinator of the Montreal Centre of the RASC (Royal Astronomical Society of Canada), a Program Manager of the National RASC Education & Public Outreach Committee, an Explore Alliance Ambassador and Global Star Party presenter, and a Reach Out and Touch Space Panelist on AstroRadio. Karim's lecture is entitled: "Two-eyed Seeing" The night […]
The Quaker Meeting House in Liverpool City Centre
The Quaker Meeting House, 22 School Lane, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom
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 […]
The Quaker Meeting House in Liverpool City Centre
The Quaker Meeting House, 22 School Lane, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom
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 […]
The Quaker Meeting House in Liverpool City Centre
The Quaker Meeting House, 22 School Lane, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom
This event was rescheduled from 15th May 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic The May 2022 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2019 - 2022 (138th) session is our Annual General Meeting and will be held on Friday, May 20th from 19:00 to 21:00. Please note that this event is not open to the general public without prior arrangement with the LAS Secretary. Those of you wishing to join the Society are welcome to come along and officially become members, however please note that you will not be allowed to vote at this meeting. Ordinarily, the AGM would […]
