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3 August 2023 at 11:20 am #618537
Jeremy Shears
ParticipantThe VSS meeting on Saturday September 2, at Northampton, is fast approaching. The meeting is kindly hosted by the Northamptonshire Natural History Society.
We have an excellent line-up of speakers and the full programme can be viewed here: https://britastro.org/event/variable-star-section-meeting-2
Doors open at 09.30, the programme starts at 10.30 and we finish at 17.30
There is no need to book and entrance is free.
I do hope to see many of you there for what promises to be an enjoyable and interesting day.
Jeremy
3 August 2023 at 1:21 pm #618550Dr Paul Leyland
ParticipantI’d love to attend but I have to stay in La Palma until at least mid-September.
Will the meeting be recorded for later viewing? Recording is generally much easier than live streaming over Zoom or whatever.
3 August 2023 at 1:45 pm #618551Jeremy Shears
ParticipantNot planning to, Paul.
13 August 2023 at 1:22 pm #618666Bill Barton
ParticipantAnnoyingly September 2 has been announced as a strike day on the railways.
13 August 2023 at 3:55 pm #618667Gary Poyner
ParticipantIndeed it is. Our speakers were made of aware of this several days ago, and fortunately we haven’t yet had any drop out – including Mark Kidger, whose travelling from Madrid to speak at the meeting.
Gary
18 August 2023 at 3:20 pm #618748Bill Barton
ParticipantAn extra day of rail strikes has just been announced for Friday, September 1.
18 August 2023 at 4:33 pm #618749Andy Wilson
KeymasterThanks for the heads up Bill.
My plan is to travel up the day before. Fingers crossed there will be still be some trains running on Friday.
Andy
26 August 2023 at 1:51 pm #618882Jeremy Shears
ParticipantJust a reminder that there is only one week to go until the BAA VSS meeting at Northampton: Saturday September 2.
We have a full line-up of interesting talks for the day. The full programme can be viewed here: https://britastro.org/event/variable-star-section-meeting-2
All the speakers have confirmed they can attend, in spite of the rail strikes, plus we have an additional short talk.
I look forward to welcoming many of you at the meeting next Saturday.
Jeremy Shears
Director, VSS27 August 2023 at 10:40 am #618884Alex Pratt
Participant27 August 2023 at 12:01 pm #618885Andy Wilson
KeymasterI am travelling to the meeting by coach. National Express have a drop off point in the town centre.
Best wishes,
Andy3 September 2023 at 7:29 am #618964Dawson
ParticipantA great day of talks and catching up with people, and a great venue too. Well done to the organisers and speakers!
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3 September 2023 at 10:03 am #618968Paul G. Abel
ParticipantLooks like the meeting went very well; I was planning on attending but alas the rail strikes on Friday and Saturday made it almost impossible!
3 September 2023 at 5:28 pm #618975Jeremy Shears
ParticipantYesterday’s meeting featured a superb line up of speakers. I’d like to thank them all for highly informative presentations. It was wonderful to be back at the Northamptonshire Natural History Society, thanks to Nick Hewitt (and his team that put on a delicious spread at lunch and kept us well supplied with tea and coffee throughout the day). The number of attendees exceeded our expectations and it was great to see old and new faces.
Here’s a pic (by James Dawson) of the speakers and organisersAttachments:
3 September 2023 at 7:23 pm #618978Maxim Usatov
ParticipantThis looks really nice and like you guys had a great time. I wish I could join.
Max
4 September 2023 at 10:50 am #618999Duncan Hale-Sutton
ParticipantI was very sorry to miss this meeting but I had a prior engagement that would have been difficult to break. I hope to join you all another time!
4 September 2023 at 11:09 am #619000Andy Wilson
KeymasterI am pleased to report that we were able to record most of the presentations. We did not announce this in advance as we were trying something new and we were not sure it would work. There are problems with at least a couple of the recordings but it appears to have worked for the majority.
I will be uploading them to the BAA YouTube channel, but due to other commitments I won’t be able to complete the editing and make them live until the last week in September.
Andy4 September 2023 at 12:23 pm #619002Duncan Hale-Sutton
ParticipantThat’s great Andy. I look forward to seeing what you have when you have time.
4 September 2023 at 2:21 pm #619005Jeremy Shears
ParticipantSuper to hear that the meeting recordings were successful, Andy. Thanks for all your efforts to achieve this including spending 16.5 hours on buses for the VSS! I am sure people will enjoy watching the talks online when they become available later in the month.
4 September 2023 at 4:53 pm #619009Dr Paul Leyland
ParticipantExcellent news!
I would have attended but I am stuck in La Palma for a rather important reason.
5 September 2023 at 9:26 pm #619030Eric Watkins
ParticipantAndy,
that’s good news. There are a couple of presentations I’m particularly interested in.
Eric
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