| Calendar: | BAA Meetings & Events |
| Title: | Deep Sky Section Meeting, Cheltenham |
| When: | 02.03.2013 |
| Description: | Venue: Shurdington Social Centre, Shurdington, Cheltenham
More Details at: tinyurl.com/coywjnc
The annual Deep Sky Section Meeting takes place next Saturday, March 2nd.
The meeting, hosted this year by the Cotswold Astronomical Society, will
take place at Shurdington Social Centre, Bishops Road, Shurdington,
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL51 4TB. For a map and directions to the venue
see: www.shurdington.org/SocCtr/Location.htm
Speakers and topics planned for the meeting are:
Stewart Moore: a review of the deep sky year
Nick Hewitt: Barnard, Gordon and the darkness
Paul Curtis: deep sky imaging and processing using a
modified DSLR camera
Gary Poyner: RR Tauri and its nebula – a BAA project
Martin Lewis: eye and pencil
Grant Privett: deep sky imaging on the cheap
The professional talk will be given by Dr Phil Marshall, University of
Oxford, on Cosmic Telescopes.
Coffee and tea will be available from 9:30 with the meeting starting at
10:00. The entrance fee of £10 (payable at the door) includes tea and coffee
during the day along with a buffet lunch. The BAA, the Webb Deep Sky Society
and SCS Astro all hope to have sales stands at the meeting. All BAA members
and their friends are welcome.
If you know you will be attending it would help the catering team if you
could let them know to ensure there will be adequate food for everyone.
Also, if you have any special dietary requirements. Please email Callum at
webman at cotswoldas.org.uk
We look forward to seeing next Saturday for another enjoyable Section
meeting.
Stewart Moore
Callum Potter
Owen Brazell
Hosted by Cotswold Astronomical Society
Organiser; Stewart Moore |
| Author: | callum.potter@gmail.com  |
