Comet and meteor section meeting

Saturday 4th Oct 2025 09:00 - 18:00

This joint Comet and Meteor Section meeting will take place in Edinburgh, a few minutes’ walk from Waverley Station on Saturday, 2025 October 4. Please book your places here. There is a nominal charge of £5 per person.

The provisional list of speakers and topics is:

Time Title Speaker Org.
09:00 Doors open
09:30 – 09:45 Welcome BAA/ASE
09:45 – 10:15 Recent comets Nick James BAA
10:15 – 10:45 Outbursts in meteor streams John Mason BAA
11:45 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 11:45 50 years of observing comets Jonathan Shanklin BAA
11:45 – 12:15 Urban comet observing David Swan BAA
12:15 – 12:45 Comet anti-tails in visual, photographic and digital observations Denis Buczynski BAA
12:45 – 14:15 Lunch
14:15 – 14:45 The Geminids and their parent body Alex Pratt BAA
14:45 – 15:15 Meteor spectroscopy Bill Ward BAA
15:15 – 15:45 One hundred comets Alan Hale (remote)
15:45 – 16:15 Coffee break BAA
16:15 – 16:45 The comet work of the ASE Douglas Heggie ASE
16:45 – 17:30 TBD Colin Snodgrass RoE
17:30 – 18:00 Wrap up and close
18:00 Doors close

The local host society is the Astronomical Society of Edinburgh.

We hope to record the meeting but it will not be live streamed.

Venue

Augustine United Church, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EL.


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