HOME » Lecture and Meeting Timetable - 2005

Here is our diary for 2005. We have two types of regular meeting every month. A lecture style meeting typically on the third Wednesday of each month and a practical, observing oriented evening on the first Thursday of every month.

Monthly Lecture Meetings

Meetings start at 7:45pm at Woodrow High House, Amersham, Bucks. Click here for a map. All meetings are held in the Frankie Vaughan Studio which is situated to the left and round behind the main house (it is not visible from the car park).

Wednesday 19th January

Patrick Houghton (WAS)
Space Exploration. Past, Present & Future

Wednesday 16th February

Telescope and Observing Evening (pictures from last year's event)

Wednesday 16th March

Professor Stuart Malin
RGO Herstmonceux - the vintage years

Wednesday 20th April

Gordon Rogers (Web page)
Behind the scenes of Apollo & Colour imaging

Wednesday 18th May

Sheridan Williams
Solar Eclipses and other transient astronomical phenomena

Wednesday 15th June

Kelvin Stephens (WAS)
Solar Observing

Wednesday 20th July

Bob Mizon (Campaign for Dark Skies)
Astronomy and the Ancients

Friday 12th August

The Perseid Meteor Shower Barbecue

Wednesday 21st September

Andy Lound (The Planetary Society)
Venus - Paradise Lost

Wednesday 19th October

Annual General Meeting followed by observing outside - wrap up warm!

Wednesday 16th November

Dr Robert Lambourne (The Open University)
Einstein and Astronomy

Wednesday 14th December

WAS Christmas Party

For more details about the practical evenings, please click on Observing. Practical evening start at 8:00pm in the Frankie Vaughan Studio at Woodrow House and at the observatory if it is clear. Please come suitably dressed for outdoor observing.

Thursday 3rd February

Deep Sky & Messier objects - Messier marathon preparation.

Thursday 3rd March

Finding your way around the sky.

Thursday 7th April

Recording your observations.

Thursday 5th May

Weather for observing

Thursday 2nd June

Computers for Astronomy

Thursday 7th July

Processing your webcam images

Thursday 4th August

Practical observing

Thursday 1st September

Eyepieces / Delta Cephei observations

Thursday 6th October

Observing Mars this autumn

Thursday 3rd November

How to become a qualified WAS Observatory Night Operator – Demonstration of the process involved including opening up and closing down the observatory and operating the LX200.

Thursday 1st December

Finding your way around the sky, the constellations and the stars useful as pointers, circumpolar stars, star magnitudes, the ecliptic and celestial co-ordinates.

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