October 2022 Meeting Report

October 2022 Meeting Report Due to the cancellation by our speaker the October meeting was changed to our how to observe evening. It began with Michael showing us all the different ways we can observe the sun safely with a partial eclipse of the sun visible this month. Very basic equipment is all that is […]

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June 2022 Meeting

June 2022 Meeting Our speaker this month was Dr Lilian Hobbs FRAS who took us on a tour of the Jantra Mantra Observatory built in the 1700’s in Jaipar India. Lilian described all the large instruments that were built to perform observations of the day and night sky. Thanks to the internet Lilian was also […]

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May 2022 Meeting Report

Our speaker this month was James Fradgley FRAS who spoke about the Astronomical Influences of Climate Change. As always James is a great speaker and it was a fascinating subject. Much time was spent on how the sun impacts on our climate. I never realised that there were so many solar cycles.

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