Joint TA/BAAVSS meeting

 

St. Mary's Church Hall

Goat Lane 

Basingstoke

October 13th 2012

 

In honour of the centenary of the birth of George Alcock

 

 

 

 

PDF's of presentations highlighted

 

 

 

Annual Report/Finances of 'The Astronomer'        Guy Hurst, Editor

 

Lifetime achievements of George Alcock.             Guy Hurst

 

Expanding the BAA Database.  (2.1mb PDF)      Roger Pickard

 

George Alcock: Some reminiscences.                  Denis Buczynski

 

Supernova 1a progenitors. (8.7mb PDF)              Prof. Boris Gaensicke (University of Warwick)

 

100 years of Novae   (2.3mb PDF)                         Prof. Nye Evans (Astrophysics group, Keele University)

 

Project Alcock: The search for Comets                 Roger Dymock

 

From Alcock's last comet to Herschel -

Studying comets from space                                   Dr. Mark Kidger (Herschel Science Centre, ESA)