Chester Astronomical Society GIF Chester Astronomical Society


Programme of Society Meetings for 2005

Meetings will commence at 7.30 p.m. except as otherwise announced.
Please arrive promptly.
Details of the annual dinner, star party/barbecue and
other observing sessions will be given at meetings.
No charge is made for the loan of books, videos and software
from the Society Library but fines if overdue!

January 26th Annual General Meeting Followed by short talk "Astro events in 2004"
January 28th (Friday) Dr Allan Chapman, Wadham College, Oxford “Lord Rosse & the Victorian Cosmological Revolution"
February 23rd Dr Jim Cohen, Jodrell Bank “Life in Space"
March 30th Dr Eric Jones, Liverpool AS “The History of Liverpool & Bidston Observatory"
April 27th Richard Sargent, Chester AS “The Astronomical Observations of Henry Prescott (from Chester)"
May 25th David Ratledge, Bolton AS "Deep Sky Adventures from Lancashire"
June 29th Phil Rogers, FREng, FInstP "Optics in Astronomy: from Huygens to Hubble & beyond"
July 27th Dr Rob Jeffries, Keele University "Peering into the furnace - the microwave background and the accelerating universe"
August NO MEETING SUMMER BREAK
September 28th Dr Phillippa Browning, U of M "Our Active Sun"
October 26th Telescope Evening Review of Members Telescopes
November 30th Dr J.Baruch, Bradford University "A night with a robot telescope"
December NO MEETING XMAS BREAK

 


Meetings for 2001
Meetings for 2002
Meetings for 2003
Meetings for 2004

Chester Home Page


NWGAS Home page.
Maintained by Graham Hodson
Last updated 7 January, 2008
Untitled Document