Croydon Astronomical Society

Meetings

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

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

Friday 11th January 2013

Short Talk; TBA maybe Alan Drummond or another Patrick Moore tribute, a video can be found on the News Section. Tonight we have a guest speaker Nick Howes from ESA on the 'Tale of 2 Comets' - Meeting organised by Paul Harper
Friday 25th January 2013

Short talk will be based on Bill Lumb's trip in Australia to view the total solar eclipse and visit 4 observatories in New South Wales and 2 meteor craters in Alice Springs. Also we will be viewing a video related to Sir Patrick Moore in commemoration.

Friday 8th February 2013

Alan Drummond will be doing his short talk on comet Pan-STARRS followed by our main talk by a guest speaker Matthew Hepburn on the 'Scale of the Universe'
Friday 22nd February 2013

The short beginners talk will be given by Paul Harper on the bright star Rigel. The main talk will be by the guest speaker, Paul Coleman, on the two solar eclipses of 2012. He has travelled to both and will present an illustrated talk along with techniques to photograph these events.
Friday 8th March 2013

Our talk(s) for the night will be on the 'S's of Astronomy.

Friday 22nd March 2013

The main talk will be given by Tony Roberts on the 'History of Telescopes, through to 1960'. This will cover the significant telescopes of the day, culminating in the pioneering work of the 100-inch Hooker telescope on Mount Wilson and 200-inch Hale telescope on Palomar Mountain.

EASTER BREAK

Friday 12th April 2013

Our main speaker is Alan Drummond, who will be giving us a talk on the 'The Great Galaxy in Andromeda'. Also known as Messier 31 and NGC 224, the talk will be a history of observation from its discovery to the present day. The short talk will be by Bill Lumb, following on from his recent trip to the Arctic. It will include photographs and a film - from the trip - and stock photographs to illustrate some theory.

Friday 26th April 2013

Exhibition meeting, where members are invited to share their photographs, observations, experiences, any equipment they think is of interest etc. This evening will be hosted by our committee astronomer, John Berman

Friday 10th May 2013

Annual General Meeting of the society (guests or partners are welcome as usual but only members can participate at the actual AGM)

Friday 24th May 2013

To Be Announced

Friday 7th June 2013

To Be Announced

Friday 21st June 2013

To Be Announced

Friday 5th July 2013

To Be Announced

Friday 19th July 2013

To Be Announced

There are no meetings in August

Details of our meetings are also available on the CAS Web Calendar found on 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.


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