The Croydon Astronomical Society

Updated

Lecture Programme

2nd May 2012

Lecture details changed

The Society is a Registered Charity, we do not make charge for admission or membership but donations to the funds are gratefully received by the "Little Grey Box" which is in evidence at all the meetings and at our Observatory.

We try to structure the meetings to appeal to astronomers of all levels from beginner to expert. They normally consist of an introductory talk by one of our members, Society News, or an Observers Section followed by the lecture from the main speaker as detailed below.

A small charge is made for refreshments

Summer Term - April to July 2012

Friday

20th April 2012

The 5 most influential Astronomy or Space images. Tonight we are attempting to identify the most influential images. We need you to send us your images and tell us all why your image is the most influential. Send them to image2012@CroydonAstro.org.uk. Closing date 14th April. Many more details on our web site.

Meeting organised by John Murrell

Friday

4th May 2012

Annual Exhibition Meeting – this is your chance to show us your astronomical achievements in the last year be they images or hardware or something else. Please send details of what you are going to exhibit to John Berman at Astronomer10@CroydonAstro.org.uk so he can plan the meeting.

Meeting organised by John Berman

Friday

18th May 2012

Tonight is our Annual General Meeting. Come and hear what the committee have achieved in the last year and give the new committee your ideas for the next year. This will be followed by an open forum or astronomy videos.

This meeting is only open to members

Friday

1st June 2012

Ask an Astronomer – if you have any questions send them to AaA2012@CroydonAstro.org.uk so we can prepare an answer else ask them on the night and we will attempt to answer them.

Meeting organised by John Murrell

Friday

15th June

2012

Our speaker tonight is Roger O’Brien who is going to discuss that enigmatic substance that can be felt but not seen – Dark Matter

Meeting organised by Mike Ross

Friday

29th June 2012

Our lecture tonight ventures beyond our Galaxy the Milky Way when Dr Myrto Symeonidis of MSSL will speak to us about extragalactic astronomy and what we can learn about the Universe with infrared and X-ray sensitive telescopes

Meeting organised by William Bottaci

Friday

13th July 2012

Tonight one of our long time members Konrad Malin-Smith will be telling us about Our Shining Star – what makes the Sun hot. It’s not as simple as you may think.

Meeting organised by Alan Drummond

The first lecture of the Autumn Term will be on Friday 7th September 2012

Details of the lectures are also available on the CAS Web Calendar also accessible from the home page. Using this calendar you can set up email or SMS text alerts to remind you of the lectures.

Copies of the programme in PDF format are available here ( Version V2 2nd May 2012) - for members & for visitors.

The programme has more information about were we meet, our observatory, how we are financed and other useful information.

The member’s version will be sent by EMAIL to those members who have given us an EMAIL address (and updated the membership Secretary with any changes ! ).

If you have changed your email address, please let our secretary know. His EMAIL address can be found on our Contacts Page.

The lectures start at 19:45 and finish around 22:00

Due to events outside the Committee's control, it is not always possible to keep to the published programme. If we have sufficient notice changes to the programme will be published on the News Page on this web site, circulated to those who subscribe to the CAS discussion group Altair_B and will be announced at the previous meeting.

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Here is a list of the lectures held at the CAS since January 1997 so that you can see the range of subjects covered, Secretaries of other societies might find a few useful ideas here for their next programme !

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Contacts for more information contact :

Name	Post	EMAIL
Vacancy	Chairman	See details on our Contacts Page
John Murrell	Vice Chairman	See details on our Contacts Page
William Bottaci	Secretary & Membership Secretary	See details on our Contacts Page

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