Sic Itur Ad Astra – Thus The Way To The Stars : 144 years of astronomy
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Liverpool Astronomical Society with Sefton Park Palm House invite you to a Star Party! Come and be inspired by the wonders of the night sky: view planets, galaxies and deep sky objects. There will be talks about astronomy and telescopes outside to look through (weather permitting). Experienced amateur astronomers will be on hand to give advice and guidance. Please be advised that the talks will be tailored around what is available to see in the night sky.Continue Reading »
When and Where? Weekly public meetings are held every Wednesday evening (except if it falls too close to Christmas), between 19:00 (7 PM) and 21:00 (9 PM) local time (e.g. 7pm BST in summer, 7pm UTC in winter) in the Liverpool Astronomical Society’s Leighton Observatory. Can My Children Attend on a Wednesday Evening? We do not recommend that under-14s attend on Wednesday evenings as it can get extremely busy, and some may find it a little overwhelming. We do run a monthly Young Astronomers’ club from autumn to spring, which you can find details of here. That said, we understand […]Continue Reading »
The November 2022 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2022-2023 session will be held on Friday, November 18th 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. Our guest speaker this month is Dr. Steve Barrett, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Physics at the University of Liverpool. The title of the lecture is: The Beginning of Everything A brief description of the origin and the very early history of the Universe. After the Big Bang it took […]Continue Reading »
The December 2022 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2022-2023 session will be held on Friday, December 9th from 19:00 to 21:00 with a break for tea/coffee and Christmas light refreshments. Please note this is the second Friday of the month, not the third. Members of the public are welcome to attend (for free), but please consider joining our Society if you attend more than two monthly meetings. Our speakers this month are three of our own members, talking about astronomical projects, areas of interest, observations and so on. Each talk is approximately 15 minutes long. All 3 […]Continue Reading »
The November 2023 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2023-2024 session will be held on Friday, November 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. Our guest speaker this month is Dr. Steve Barrett, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Physics at the University of Liverpool. This talk follows from last November’s talk, The Beginning of Everything The title of the lecture is: The End of Everything This time last year, we looked at origin of […]Continue Reading »
The October 2022 (William Lassell Memorial Lecture) monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2022-2023 session will be held on Friday, October 21st from 19:00 to 21:00. Our guest speaker this month is Mr. Steve Warbis of Macclesfield Astronomical Society, who you may remember joined us before our summer break for a different lecture. In addition to speaking for his own Society 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 this month is entitled: Completely Over (and Under) the […]Continue Reading »
The December 2023 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2023-2024 session will be held on Friday, December 8th from 19:00 to 21:00. Please note: This is the second Friday of the month, not the third. 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 lectures are as follows (order may change) : […]Continue Reading »
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 […]Continue Reading »
The first Monthly Meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2022 – 2023 (139th) session will be held on Friday, September 16th from 19:00 to 21:00. Those of you wishing to become members may do so at this meeting (see below for more information.) This meeting is our Presidential Address, and as such our speaker is LAS President Mr. Steve Southern, whose lecture is entitled: Focus on Zeiss Slides from the Gemini/Apollo Era Zeiss produced slides in the early days of the NASA Gemini and Apollo missions. The Society has obtained a set of these. My talk describes the slides […]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 »
