Our Meeting schedule for the 2005-6 Season
| Speaker meetings | Beginner's Meetings | |
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Location: Thatcham Nature Discovery Centre Muddy Lane (Off Lower Way) Thatcham |
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| Click for map | Click for map | |
| Meetings on FIRST Friday | Meetings on Second Wednesday for 2005 Third wednesday in 2006 (to avoid observing with full moon ) |
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| Meeting starts at 7:30pm | Meeting starts at 7:15pm | |
| September 2nd |
September 14th | |
| Dwarf Novae – X (-rays) mark the spot! | A tour of the solar system | |
| Dr Darren Baskill (Leicester University) |
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| October 7th | October 12th | |
| Widefield CCD Imaging | Globular clusters | |
| Ian King | ||
| November 4th | November 9th | |
| The 2DF Galaxy Redshift Survey as a Cosmological Laboratory |
Mars Express | |
Prof Ofer Lahav |
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| December 2nd | December 14th | |
| BBC Sky at Night – the making of the magazine | Who were the Three Wise Men? | |
Graham Southorn and Adrian Ashford |
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| December 17th | ||
| Christmas Dinner | ||
| Dr Allan Chapman | ||
Sir Robert Stawell Ball 1840 -1915 – Astronomy's first great popularizer |
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| January 6th 2006 | January 18th | |
| News from the Red Planet | Visitors from outer space | |
Dr Mike Hapgood |
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| February 3rd | February 15th | |
| Living with a star | First steps in photographing the night sky | |
Dr. Danielle Bewsher |
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| March 3rd |
March 15th | |
| Observing Near Earth Asteroids – A Personal Journey | Space missions | |
Roger Dymock |
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| April 7th | April 19th | |
| Member's evening | The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy | |
| May 5th | May 17th | |
Isaac Newton Remembers |
To be confirmed | |
| Prof Mike Edmunds (Cardiff University) |
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| June 2nd | June 21st | |
| The Longest Night: Antarctica and Astroparticle Physics on Ice | What to look out for in the Summer sky |
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| Dr Nigel Smith (RAL) |
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| followed by The 25th Annual General Meeting |