Due to circumstances the scheduled speakers were unavailable. Replacement programme:

17.30 - BAA OM
17.45 - 18.00 Val White - The Otford (Kent) scale model of the solar system
18.00 - 18.20 Richard McKim - The latest images of Mercury from the Messenger  spacecraft and the ground-based record
18.20 - 18.45 Roger Pickard - Sky Notes
18.45 - 19.00 Sheridan Williams - Eclipses and Easter, equinox and solstice
19.00 - 19.20 John Rogers - Jupiter (the global upheaval of 2007)
19.20 - 19.40 Bob Marriott - Opening of the Black Country Museum Observatory
19.40 - 19.55 Nick James - NEOs etc
19.55 - 20.00 Close

Speakers
Andy Green "Triumph & Tragedy - the Highs & Lows of Space Exploration"
Nigel Bannister "An Auroral Imaging instrument for low Earth Orbit - which could perhaps find its way to Jupiter eventually"

Venue: Royal Astronomical Society Lecture Theatre, Burlington House , Piccadilly, London

Organiser: Hazel Collett