Deep Sky Section Annual Meeting

Saturday 23rd Mar 2019

The 2019 section meeting will be hosted by the Cotswold Astronomical Society, and will be held at Shurdington Social Centre, Shurdington, Cheltenham.

Doors open 9:30 – tea and coffee

10:00 – 10:10 Callum Potter – Welcome
10:10 – 11:00 John McCue – Observing Doubles Down Under
Coffee break
11:20 – 12:10 Mark Stuart – Weather and Astronomy
12:10 – 12:40 Robin Leadbeater – Spectroscopy of extra-galactic novae and supernovae
Lunch
13:50 – 14:20 Eddie Carpenter – Astrophotographers Issac Roberts and Dorothea Klumpte
14:20 – 15:00 Grant Privett – Gyulbudaghians Nebula
15:00 – 15:50 Ian Smith – Imaging Planetary Nebulae
Tea
16:20 – 17:20 Prof. Steven Phillipps (Bristol University) – Surveying the Deep Sky – Edwin Hubble to the Hubble Space Telescope
17:20 – Wrap-up

Please note – programme my change without notice.

Trade stands: BAA Sales, Webb Deep-Sky Society 

Price including buffet lunch: £7.50 for BAA members, members of Cotswold Astronomical Society and affiliated societies. £10.00 for non-members.

Organiser: Callum Potter & Cotswold Astronomical Society

Venue

Shurdington Social Centre, Bishop Road, SHURDINGTON, Cheltenham,Gloucestershire, GL51 4TB.


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