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The Greenock meeting, on the other hand, was outstanding – a beautiful location by the Clyde estuary, great speakers and a wonderful concert performance by the Voices of Argyll. Well-done to all involved, but especially to Marian of the Inverclyde Skywatchers, who was an outstanding organiser.
Thanks to all at Greenock who enquired about my travel plans.
In the end, I took the earliest train from Greenock to Glasgow and blagged my way onto an early replacement bus to Carlisle. This was followed by a second replacement bus to Preston, where I missed my original connection by ten minutes. But I was now on a functioning rail network and able to return home on alternate trains.
So, I set off an hour earlier than planned and got home an hour later. Could have been worse.
Hi Gary,
Thanks for your interest in the Historical Section, and sorry to hear you can’t use the “Contact the Director” button. It usually works (I get regular correspondence via this route), so I’ll take this up with the WebOps team.
I don’t really want to advertise my email address on a public forum. But you can find it inside the back cover of the Journal, or in back editions of the section newsletter, which you can find at https://britastro.org/document_folder/baa-document-store/sections/historical-section/newsletters
Drop me (or Bill) an email and we’ll add you to our mailing list.
And hope to see you at our next section meeting on May 18th https://britastro.org/event/historical2024
Regards
Mike Frost
Historical Section director
As Jack, I’m sure, will confirm, Dr Becker wrote an outstanding biography of William and Margaret Huggins, “Unravelling Starlight” (Cambridge 2011.
Well worth a read.Thanks Jeremy, glad you enjoyed it. I certainly had a great time.
Thanks to our knowledgeable and enthusiastic speakers – Mark Edwards, Marie-Louise Archer, John Chuter, Lee Macdonald and Andrew Lound.
Thanks too to the SHA for opening up their library and selling us lots of spare books.
Attachments:
I have now (finally) uploaded newsletter 27 to the HS publications page
https://britastro.org/document_folder/baa-document-store/sections/historical-section/newsletters
Sorry for the delay – I’m still getting the hang of the new website. Thanks to Emily Bick for sorting me out.Denis,
So sad to hear about Rob’s passing. He was the chairman of the Coventry & Warwickshire Society when I first joined in 1985, and was very welcoming and friendly. I remember him lecturing to C&WAS about his observing from Conder Brow. He seemed to drift away from C&WAS and from astronomy in general over the years, although he would from time-to-time turn up for a meeting. I’m sure we’ll commemorate him in the Coventry society at our next meeting.
Mike Frost
I have now uploaded the newsletter to our section downloads
Hi again all,
I just paid my three pounds and watched the film. Pretty good! It’s written by a non-astronomer, so some of the detail isn’t great (I wouldn’t follow the solar observing techniques used in the play!). David also tells me he took dramatic license with some of her story.
But let’s not quibble. It’s a laudable attempt to tell the story of a distinguished observer and a remarkable woman. And it should bring her story to non-astronomers.
Worth a watch!
Mike
Thanks Dennis for passing on great news about Yerkes. It’s a lovely place to visit, steeped in history – Barnard, Chandraskhar, Sagan, Hubble and many others worked there. So it’s good that the observatory has been saved and the historic buildings and telescopes will survive.
Thanks Dennis for passing on great news about Yerkes. It’s a lovely place to visit, steeped in history – Barnard, Chandraskhar, Sagan, Hubble and many others worked there. So it’s good that the observatory has been saved and the historic buildings and telescopes will survive.
I visited the Temple Observatory a couple of times in the early 2000s. The head of science at Rugby school at the time was a member of Rugby AS and we were investigating the idea of Rugby AS or Coventry&Warks AS swapping expertise for observing time. We had a good view of the lunar terminator but not much success finding anything else. Enthusiasm for a joint venture waned when the head of science moved on. From time to time the Seabroke Society (Rugby School’s Astrosoc) recruit some enthusiastic youngsters but obviously they don’t stick around for long.
Rugby now has its very own astronomical society, Rugby AS, who meet at Church Lawford. I’ve spoken to them many times and they are a great bunch (my home society are still Coventry & Warwickshire AS).
I was viewing it (when safe to do so!) on my way into work, and then wondered how long after I could follow it.
