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Our guest speaker for October 2024 is Mr. David Harrison - The World's First Public Access Space Telescope
Our guest speaker for October 2024 is Mr. David Harrison - The World's First Public Access Space Telescope
Our guest speaker for November 2024 was to be Mr Gary Palmer - Introduction to Deep Sky Imaging however ill-health means that the planned talk will need to be rescheduled. Dr. Steve Barrett has kindly stepped in, and will be giving two shorter presentations in place of one long one:
The December 2024 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2024-2025 session will be held on Friday, December 13th from 19:00 to 21:00. Please note: This is the second Friday of the month, not the third. Members papers followed by tea/coffee and mince pies. Members of the public are welcome to attend (for free), but please consider joining our Society if you attend more than two monthly meetings. For our December meeting, we do not have a guest speaker from an external organisation but talks from one or more of or own Members. The speakers and titles of the […]
The January 2025 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2024-2025 session will be held on Friday, January 17th 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 […]
The February 2025 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2024-2025 session will be held on Friday, February 21st from 19:00 to 21:20. About This Meeting Please note that this meeting's running order will be slightly altered from the usual, with the lecture taking place from 19:00 and Society Business after the tea-break. Please try to arrive on time or you may miss the beginning of a very interesting talk. 19:00 – 20:30 – Meeting opens, and lecture begins promptly, followed by Q&A and Vote of Thanks20:30 – 20:50 – Tea break in the communal area followed by raffle […]
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 […]
About This Meeting Our guest speaker for April 2025 is Dr. Julian Onions, of the University of Nottingham, and he will be giving us a talk about: Crazy Interstellar Rockets! What sort of rockets or spaceships could we use to go to the distant stars? We will explore some of the crazier designs that have been proposed over the years, most of which have some possibility of working? The future may be nearer than we think!
The Annual General Meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2024-2025 session will be held on Friday, May 16th from 19:00 to 21:15. Members of the public are welcome to attend (for free), but please consider joining our Society if you attend more than two monthly meetings. About This Meeting The meeting will consist of Society business followed by a lecture by James Tardiff, an educator at The Intrepid Sea, Air, And Space Museum in New York, USA. Running Order: Please note that times following the opening of the meeting are approximate to account for discussion of Society matters, etc. […]
The first Monthly Meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2025 - 2026 (142nd) session will be held on Friday, September 26th from 19:00 to 21:00. There will be a short talk for this meeting followed by a free buffet. Title TBC Those of you wishing to become members may do so at this meeting (see below for more information.) Members of the public are welcome to attend (for free), but please consider joining our Society if you attend more than two monthly meetings. Subscription Info More information about membership can be found here. The LAS e-newsletter is now included […]
