2010-2011 Lecture Programme
These lectures are normally free of charge and membership of the society is not required. Free parking is available at the MMU - entrance via Chester Street. From October 2007 the lectures will normally be held in the John Dalton Building, Manchester Metropolitan University, Oxford Road, (floor plan here) on the third Thursday of the month starting at 7.30pm prompt. NOTE: Room E0.05 is normally used for the 2010/2011 season lectures unless otherwise specified

Please note that the Godlee Observatory is open every Thursday evening for Member's Meetings. Most meetings include a short talk by one of the members about some astronomical topic or a "slide show" of images by our members or, weather permitting, observing with the Godlee telescopes. You are welcome to attend a few times as a "taster" before being required to join the Society. If you require more information about the Society than can be gleaned from these web pages, please come along to the Godlee one Thursday evening, when you will be made most welcome and can ask any questions about the Society that are not answered on the web site.
 

16th September 2010

Brother Dr. Guy Consolmagno SJ
American research astronomer and planetary scientist at the Vatican Observatory
Trans-Neptunian Objects

This lecture will be held at the John Dalton Building, Room E0.05, Manchester Metropolitan University, (Chester Street, off Oxford Road - opposite the BBC)

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21st October 2010

Dr Clive Saunders
University of Manchester
Atmospheric Phenomena

This lecture will be held at the John Dalton Building, Room E0.05, Manchester Metropolitan University, (Chester Street, off Oxford Road - opposite the BBC)

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18th November 2010

Dr Mark Jones
Open University
A cool view of the Cosmos: Astronomy in the infrared

This lecture will be held at the John Dalton Building, Room E0.05, Manchester Metropolitan University, (Chester Street, off Oxford Road - opposite the BBC)

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16th December 2010

Presidential Lecture - Barry Henshall
Life and the Universe
Held in the Godlee Observatory, Sackville Street Building, The University of Manchester [North Campus] - Ticket only (max 40)
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20th January 2011

Dr Paul Ruffle
University of Manchester (Visiting Research Fellow)
How I wonder what you are: the birth, life & death of stars
This lecture will be held at the John Dalton Building, Room E0.05, Manchester Metropolitan University, (Chester Street, off Oxford Road - opposite the BBC)

Note that this lecture has been rescheduled from 16th March
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17th February 2011

Prof. Donald W. Kurtz
University of Central Lancashire
The Songs of the Stars: The Real Music of the Spheres

This lecture will be held at the John Dalton Building, Room E0.05, Manchester Metropolitan University, (Chester Street, off Oxford Road - opposite the BBC)
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17th March 2011

Sir Arnold Wolfendale
Astronomer Royal
Astronomers Royal through the Ages

In 1675, King Charles II caused the Royal Greenwich Observatory to be founded for the purpose of determining longitude at sea by ‘the astronomical method’. The work of some of the interesting Astronomers Royal – who for centuries ran the observatory – will be described

This lecture will be held at the John Dalton Building, Room E0.05, Manchester Metropolitan University, (Chester Street, off Oxford Road - opposite the BBC)

Note that this lecture has been rescheduled from 20th January
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21st April 2010 - 7.45 pm prompt
Annual General Meeting
MEMBERS ONLY
Held in the Godlee Observatory, Sackville Building, The University of Manchester [North Campus]