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:
| Slot | Title | Name | 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 – 17:15 | Modelling cometary activity | Dr. Erica Bufanda | UoE |
| 17:15 – 17:45 | The LSST survey | Dr. Jamie Robinson | UoE |
| 17:45 – 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.