FOREDOWN TOWER
ASTRONOMERS
FOREDOWN TOWER
ASTRONOMERS
Previous Speakers
Previous speakers at our monthly meeting;
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January 2020 |
Dr. David Bacon - Unveiling the Dark Universe |
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November 2019 |
David Whitehouse - Apollo 11: The Inside Story |
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October 2019 |
Melanie Davies - Titan: A Candidate For Evolution |
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September 2019 |
Peter Fishenden - The Development of the Telescope |
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July 2019 |
Lillian Hobbs - Eise Eisinga, the planetarium in the Bedroom |
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June 2019 |
John Davies (Society Chairman) - Solar Observing |
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May 2019 |
Roy Easto (Croydon Astronomical Society) - Colliding Neutron Stars |
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April 2019 |
Prof. Alan Aylward - Arorae on earth & other planets |
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March 2019 |
Graham Bryant (Hampshire Astronomical Group) - Sun, Sea & Smoke |
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February 2019 |
Tony Roberts (Chairman Croydon Astronomical Society) - Astronomical Oddities, Strange Observations, Strange Mistakes & Strange Astronomers |
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January 2019 |
James Fradgely (Wessex Astronomical Society) - Life in the Universe |
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September 2018 |
Melanie Davies FRAS - The Pleiades |
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August 2018 |
Stephen Tonkin FRAS - Ten Ways The Universe Tries To Kill You! |
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July 2018 |
Peter Fishenden (Society Members) - Solar and Lunar Eclipses. |
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June 2018 |
Will Joyce (Society President) - A whistle stop tour of the universe. |
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May 2018 |
Graham Bryant (Hampshire Astronomical Group) - A guide to Astro Photography. |
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April 2018 |
Dr Iocopo Vivarelli - Discoveries at the Large Hadron Collider. |
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March 2018 |
Prof. Carl Murray - The Cassini mission to Saturn: The end of an era. |
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February 2018 |
Dr David Bacon - Probing the dark universe with next generation telescopes. |
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January 2018 |
Dr Lilian Hobbs - The armchair Messier Marathon |
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October 2017 |
Dr Lilian Hobbs - An Astronomers "Wish You Were Here" |
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September 2017 |
Prof. Louise Harra (Mullard Space Science Laboratory) - Solar Observing |
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August 2017 |
Peter Fishenden (Society Member) - 50 Years of Moon Missions. John Davies (Society Member - Sunspots: Why do they shine so darkly? |
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July 2017 |
James Fradgley (Wessex Astronomical Society) - A trio of talks. |
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June 2017 |
Oliver Price (Mullard Space Science Laboratory) - The Rosetta Mission. |
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May 2017 |
Keith Brackenborough (Eastbourne Astronomical Society) - The Royal Greenwich Observatory Herstmonceux: Its Rise & Fall. |
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April 2017 |
Alan Drummond (Croydon Astronomical Society) - Helium. |
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March 2017 |
Peter Fishenden (Society Member) - The Space Telescope. |
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February 2017 |
Roy Easto (Croydon Astronomical Society) - The Cassini Mission. |
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January 2017 |
Will Joyce (Society President) - A whistle stop tour of the solar system. |
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December 2016 |
George Hurrion (Society Member) - Atmospheric Optics. |
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November 2016 |
Graham Bryant - The Northern Lights. |
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October 2016 |
Anne Moore (Society Member) - The Jantar Mantar Observatory. |
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September 2016 |
Dr David Whitehouse - A New Way Of Seeing. |
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August 2016 |
Jerry Day (society member) - Astronomical symbols on ancient coins. |
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July 2016 |
James Fradgley (Wessex Astronomical Society) - Discs around stars and in galaxies |
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June 2016 |
Peter Fishenden (society member) - Venus, the goddess of love. |
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May 2016 |
Tom Melvin - Galaxy Zoo |
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April 2016 |
Peter Fishenden - The Transit of Mercury |
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March 2016 |
Roy Easto (Croydon Astronomical Society) - The Genesis of the Moon |
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February 2016 |
Will Joyce (formerly at Herstmonceux) - The Astronomy of the Moon |
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January 2016 |
Dr Robert Smith (Society President) - Supernovae |
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December 2015 |
Peter Fishenden (Member) - Hubble and Beyond - Part 2 |
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November 2015 |
Dr David Whitehouse - His new book 'The Rainbow and Astronomy' |
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October 2015 |
Peter Fishenden (Member) - Hubble and Beyond |
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September 2015 |
Bob Turner - Black Holes |
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August 2015 |
Alan Drummond (Crawley Astronomical Society) - Globular Clusters |
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July 2015 |
James Fradgley (Wessex Astronomical Society) - Impacts on Earth - Large and Small |
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June 2015 |
Peter Fishenden (Member) - Brother Bernardin's Astronomical Clock |
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May 2015 |
Bob Turner - George Ellery Hale |
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April 2015 |
Kim Birkett PhD (Mullard SSL) - Update on the Rosetta Mission |
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March 2015 |
Ann Moore (Member) - Lady Astronomers |
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February 2015 |
Roy Easto (Croydon Astronomical Society) - Past and Future Space Missions |
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January 2015 |
AGM and Professor Robert Smith (FTA President) - The Changing Face of the Sun |
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December 2014 |
Members Contributions and "Christmas Goodies" |
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November 2014 |
Dr David Whitehouse - His new book 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth' |
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October 2014 |
John Skelton (Member) - The Solar System |
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September 2014 |
Guy Hurst (Editor of The Astronomer magazine) - Comets: Ancient and Modern |
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August 2014 |
Jerry Workman BSc, FRAS - Mars Rover |
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July 2014 |
Dr Christopher Arridge (Mullard SSL) - The Plumes of Enceladus |
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June 2014 |
James Fradgley (Wessex Astronomical Society) - Calendars, Cultures and Clocks |
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May 2014 |
Dr Robin Gorman (Guildford Astronomical Society) - Our Vital Moon |
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April 2014 |
Doug Bateman - The Restoration of the Time Ball at Greenwich |
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March 2014 |
Kim Birkett PhD (Mullard SSL) - An update on Comet ISON |
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February 2014 |
Bob Turner (Worthing) - Why the Solar System looks the way it does |
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January 2014 |
Dr Robert Smith (President) - The History of Constellations |
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