BAA Wednesday webinars

* * * Next webinar: 7pm BST, Wed 16 September * * *

Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE – Nick James, Director of the BAA Comet Section

Connect using Zoom – https://us04web.zoom.us/j/548739039 – or via the BAA YouTube channel

Image of Neptune and Triton by John Sussenbach.


To help maintain a sense of community at a time when many of us are unable to leave home, we will be holding a series of free weekly webinars at 7pm on Wednesdays. The presentations will typically last for 15-30 minutes followed by questions from those attending.

The first webinar will be held on 1st April on the topic Prospects for Comet 2019 Y4 (ATLAS) by Nick James, the BAA Comet Section Director. Future webinars will be added to the BAA meetings and events page.

To join the webinar click on the below link, it will be the same link each week. This will prompt you to install the Zoom software and then you will be able to join the webinar. You may click on the link in advance to ensure you have the software installed and are ready at the start.

Click to join: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/548739039

For anyone who does not wish to join via Zoom or is unable to install the software, we intend to stream the webinars on our BAA YouTube channel.

It is possible to listen to the webinars by phone, noting you will pay for the call at your usual rate and you won’t have the benefit of seeing the presentation. A list of numbers can be found here, and you will need to key in the webinar id 548 739 039 to join.

7pm Wednesday webinar schedule

1st April 2020 Prospects for Comet 2019 Y4 (ATLAS) Nick James, BAA Comet Section Director
8th April 2020 Venus Live David Arditti, BAA Equipment & Techniques Section Director
15th April 2020 Sir Patrick Moore – Early Life, Mentors and Notebooks (Part I) Dr John Mason, Trustee and Archivist for the Sir Patrick Moore Heritage Trust
22nd April 2020 Two Variable Stars in the Northern Crown Jeremy Shears, BAA Variable Star Section Director
Fri 24th April 2020
at noon
A Special Image for the 30th Anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope
Note the unusual time.
Dr John Mason, BAA Press and Publicity Officer
29th April 2020 Twilight Tour of the Moon David Arditti, BAA Equipment & Techniques Section Director
6th May 2020 From Kitchens to Comets – Hunting for molecules with a spectroscope Hugh Allen, Chairman of the Wells & Mendip Astronomers
13th May 2020 Sir Patrick Moore – Early Life, Mentors and Notebooks (Part II) Dr John Mason, Trustee and Archivist for the Sir Patrick Moore Heritage Trust
20th May 2020 The Solar Cycle Lyn Smith, BAA Solar Section Director
27th May 2020 BAA Meeting webinar – The BAA in Suffolk between the World Wars followed by Sky Notes Bill Barton and Nick James
3rd June 2020 A Journey through the Comet Section archives Nick James, BAA Comet Section Director
10th June 2020 Adventures in the Goldilocks Zone: the search for other Earths Prof Frazer Pearce, University of Nottingham
17th June 2020 Revd Dr William Pearson: co-founder of the RAS Mike Frost, BAA Historical Section Director
24th June 2020 Observing Saturn in 2020 Mike Foulkes, BAA Saturn, Uranus and Neptune Section Director
1st July 2020 Is SS Cygni losing the plot? Observing unusual outbursts in a well-known dwarf nova. Jeremy Shears, BAA Variable Star Section Director
8th July 2020 Cook, the Transit of Venus, Aftermath and Legacy Stewart Coulter, WOLAS Outreach Officer and Vice-President
15th July 2020

BAA/SPA Joint Webinar

Jupiter at opposition

Myths and Illusions

Dr John Rogers, BAA Jupiter Section Director

Greg Smye-Rumsby, designer and illustrator with Astronomy Now

22nd July 2020

Observing Planetary Nebulae

Owen Brazell, President of the Webb Deep-Sky Society

29th July 2020

Supernova Betelgeuse? What have we learnt?

What we learnt from the recent fade of this red giant

Dr Mark Kidger of the European Space Agency European Space Astronomy Centre

19th August 2020

Neptune at Opposition

Mike Foulkes, BAA Saturn, Uranus and Neptune Section Director

16th September 2020

Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE

Nick James, BAA Comet Section Director

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