Sic Itur Ad Astra – Thus The Way To The Stars : 144 years of astronomy
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The October 2017 (William Lassell Memorial Lecture) monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2017 – 2018 (136th) session will be held on Friday, October 20th from 19:00 to 21:30. Our guest speaker this month is Mr. Paul L Money FRAS FBIS, whose lecture is entitled: “Triumphs of Voyager [part 1]: Journey to Jupiter, Splendours of Saturn” In 1977 NASA launched two spacecraft to explore the outer solar system; the Voyager Mission. This year is the 40th anniversary of their launch and in this lecture, the first of a two-parter, we look back at the start of the mission […]Continue Reading »
The April 2018 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2017 – 2018 (136th) session will be held on Friday, April 20th from 19:00 to 21:30. Our guest speaker this month is Mr. Paul L Money FRAS FBIS, whose lecture is entitled: “Triumphs of Voyager [part 2]: Where no probe has gone before” This is the second part of a two-part lecture; the first part took place at our October 2017 meeting. In this instalment, we cast an eye to the Icy Giant encounters with Uranus and Neptune and take a look at the Interstellar Mission as these probes […]Continue Reading »
