Meeting of the Instruments and Imaging Section
Saturday, 10 May 2008

Wootton Working Men's Club, Wootton, Northampton

Doors open 9.45; meeting begins 11.00
£3 entry, including morning and afternoon refreshments

Programme

400th Anniversary of the Invention of the Telescope

Bob Marriott : The early days of the telescope
Dr David Whitehouse : The Digges telescope - before Lippershey
Ron Arbour : Commissioning telescopes
Nick James : Refurbishment of the James observatory
Dr Allan Chapman : The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Bob Marriott : A brief history of astronomical photography and imaging

Dr David Whitehouse is a former BBC Science Correspondent. He has recently completed a biography of Digges, and is now working on a television documentary.

Wootton Working Men's Club - formerly The Red Lion - is a real-ale pub with a private function room incorporating lecture facilities (including full black-out) in congenial surroundings, with comfortable seating and a bar. It is listed in the CAMRA Guide, and is the current recipient of the CAMRA Regional Award. The Yeoman of England - 70 yards distant - is open at 10 am for breakfast, and serves a comprehensive menu all day until 9 pm. The landlord of the Yeoman has given his permission for use of the car park

Photographs of the venue, and a location map, are on the Section web site , which has been completely redesigned. Recent additions include several members' observatories and instruments, a selection of images, and all (113) of Tom Boles' supernova discoveries - in all, 267 pages.

R.A. Marriott, Section Director