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Lyn Smith |
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Director, Solar Section
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Astronomy began for me at the age of 7 when a ‘star’ moved across the sky and I learned it was a man-made satellite in orbit; I just had to find out what the other stuff was! Solar observing started in the late 60’s in response to Patrick Moore’s broadcast on sunspots and how to observe them. My first view of a sunspot was a real ‘wow’ moment in astronomy which was only surpassed in more recent years when I had my first glimpse of a solar prominence through an H-alpha filter.
During the last 10 years I’ve been the Secretary of Harrogate AS, Solar Director of York AS and now Chairman of Clydesdale AS in South Lanarkshire. I was appointed BAA Solar Director in May 2006 and providing I’m not at a football match somewhere in Glasgow, can be found at the business end of a solar telescope.
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