Society Talks
| Date: | 2025 |
| Date: | 20/01/2025 |
| Speaker: | Dave Jones |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | The Ice Giants |
| Date: | 17/03/2025 |
| Speaker: | Dr Nick Hewitt |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Edge of Darkness -an introduction to Dark Nebulae |
| Date: | 07/04/2025 |
| Speaker: | Dr Steve Barrett |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | AGM + 'Solar Max' |
| Date: | 2024 |
| Date: | 15/01/2024 |
| Speaker: | Dave Jones |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | Asteroids |
| Date: | 19/02/2024 |
| Speaker: | Gary Poyner |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Stella Nova: a Long Road of Discovery |
| Date: | 18/03/2024 |
| Speaker: | Dr Steve Barrett |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | Cosmic Rays |
| Date: | 15/04/2024 |
| Speaker: | Andy Checketts |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | Mt. Lemmon Sky Center, Arizona |
| Date: | 20/05/2024 |
| Speaker: | Ian Johnston |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Men in Sheds Rocket to the Moon |
| Date: | 17/06/2024 |
| Speaker: | Kieth Middleton |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Voyager - The Great Explorer |
| Date: | 15/07/2024 |
| Speaker: | Daisy Turner |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Beyond Earth: The Search for Life on Exoplanets |
| Date: | 19/08/2024 |
| Speaker: | Ingrid Pelisoli |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | The life and death of stars: how company can make a difference |
| Date: | 16/09/2024 |
| Speaker: | Mike Frost |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | The Yerkes Observatory |
| Date: | 21/10/2024 |
| Speaker: | Michael Morris |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Observing Double Stars |
| Date: | 18/11/2024 |
| Speaker: | Rob Januszewski |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | TBA |
| Date: | 16/12/2024 |
| Speaker: | Rob Januszewski |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | Christmas Crackers - series of talks by members. |
| Date: | 2023 |
| Date: | 16/01/2023 |
| Speaker: | Dr Steve Barrett |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | The End of Everything |
| Date: | 20/02/2023 |
| Speaker: | Dave Jones |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | The Planet Mercury |
| Date: | 20/03/2023 |
| Speaker: | Dr Steve Barrett |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | AGM followed by Tri-band Tribulations |
| Date: | 17/04/2023 |
| Speaker: | University of Birmingham Space Society |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Exploring the Universe:Introduction to the goals and methods of space exploration and the importance of science communication. |
| Date: | 15/05/2023 |
| Speaker: | Dr Jenifer Millard |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | The Hidden Universe with JWST |
| Date: | 19/06/2023 |
| Speaker: | Dr Leah-Nani Alconcel |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Goodbye Saturn, hello Jupiter: Exploring the outer Solar System with robotic spacecraft |
| Date: | 17/07/2023 |
| Speaker: | Sue & Rob Dipple |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | The Leviathan of Parsonstown - Lord Rosse's Telescope at Birr Castle |
| Date: | 21/08/2023 |
| Speaker: | Dr Steve Barrett |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | Fiat Lux IV - Colour in the Cosmos |
| Date: | 18/09/2023 |
| Speaker: | Mike Frost |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | The Pioneering Women of the BAA |
| Date: | 16/10/2023 |
| Speaker: | Professor Nial Tanvir |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Gamma-ray bursts - the biggest bangs in the universe |
| Date: | 20/11/2023 |
| Speaker: | Michael Morris |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Observing the Moon |
| Date: | 2022 |
| Date: | 17/01/2022 |
| Speaker: | Dr Steve Barrett |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | Dark Matter â Why is it Dark? Does it Matter? |
| Status: | V |
| Date: | 21/02/2022 |
| Speaker: | Dave Jones |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | The Planet Venus: Earth's evil twin or just misunderstood. |
| Date: | 21/03/2022 |
| Speaker: | Professor Nial Tanvir |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | The Big Bang theory in practice |
| Date: | 04/04/2022 |
| Speaker: | Sue Dipple |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | AGM + Hamburg Observatory: The Ancestral Home of the Schmidt camera |
| Date: | 16/05/2022 |
| Speaker: | Professor Chris Lintott |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Where, what and who: Progress in Astronomy's Big Questions |
| Date: | 20/06/2022 |
| Speaker: | Sue Dipple |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | Proud,Thrilled and Happy - The Women who put a Man on the Moon |
| Date: | 18/07/2022 |
| Speaker: | Dr Julian Onions |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Things that go Bang in the Night (Sky) |
| Date: | 15/08/2022 |
| Speaker: | Dr Lee Macdonald |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Kew Observatory and the Birth of Solar-Terrestrial Physics |
| Date: | 19/09/2022 |
| Speaker: | Mike Frost |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Against all the odds: A Patagonian Eclipse |
| Date: | 17/10/2022 |
| Speaker: | Professor Amaury Triaud |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | The Ultracool Dwarf and the Seven Planets |
| Date: | 21/11/2022 |
| Speaker: | Dr Alan Watson |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Astronomical Neutrinos and Neutrino Astronomy |
| Date: | 19/12/2022 |
| Speaker: | Members |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Christmas Crackers - Short Presentations by Members |
| Date: | 2021 |
| Date: | 18/01/2021 |
| Speaker: | Dave Jones |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | Search for Extra- terrestrial life |
| Status: | V |
| Date: | 15/02/2021 |
| Speaker: | Dr Steve Barrett |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | ABC of Galaxy Evolution |
| Status: | V |
| Date: | 15/03/2021 |
| Speaker: | Nigel Ball |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Photographing the Northern Lights |
| Status: | V |
| Date: | 19/04/2021 |
| Speaker: | Dr Steve Barrett |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | Apollo 13 |
| Status: | V |
| Date: | 17/05/2021 |
| Speaker: | Dr Lee Macdonald |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | From cracked mirror to Nobel Prize: the story of the Isaac Newton Telescope |
| Status: | V |
| Date: | 21/06/2021 |
| Speaker: | Dr Davide Gerosa |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Hearing the Universe with Gravitational Waves |
| Status: | V |
| Date: | 19/07/2021 |
| Speaker: | Mike Frost |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Isaac Newton and the Surrey Pumas |
| Status: | V |
| Date: | 16/08/2021 |
| Speaker: | Dr John Davies |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Sample Return Missions to Near Earth Asteroids |
| Status: | V |
| Date: | 20/09/2021 |
| Speaker: | Sue,Rob & Steve |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Wild Astronomy |
| Date: | 18/10/2021 |
| Speaker: | Sue Dipple |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | Members Night |
| Date: | 15/11/2021 |
| Speaker: | Gary Poyner |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Variable Stars - how and why they vary |
| Date: | 2020 |
| Date: | 20/01/2020 |
| Speaker: | George Carey |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | Extra-galactic Nova Patrol |
| Date: | 17/02/2020 |
| Speaker: | Dr Steve Barrett |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | The Beginning of Everything |
| Date: | 16/03/2020 |
| Speaker: | Dave Jones |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | Cancelled Covid-19 - Birth of the Solar System |
| Status: | C |
| Date: | 20/04/2020 |
| Speaker: | Dr Steve Barrett |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | Cancelled Covid-19 - Apollo 13 |
| Status: | C |
| Date: | 18/05/2020 |
| Speaker: | Nigel Ball |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Cancelled Covid-19 - Photographing the Northern Lights |
| Status: | C |
| Date: | 15/06/2020 |
| Speaker: | Martin Braddock |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Cancelled Covid-19 - Countdown to Mars - Challenges for long duration space travel & colonisation |
| Status: | C |
| Date: | 15/06/2020 |
| Speaker: | Dr Steve Barrett |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | Just a Second |
| Status: | V |
| Date: | 20/07/2020 |
| Speaker: | David Shayler |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Cancelled Covid-19 - The ISS-From Here to There |
| Status: | C |
| Date: | 20/07/2020 |
| Speaker: | Dr Steve Barrett |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | Unidentified Flying Objects |
| Status: | V |
| Date: | 17/08/2020 |
| Speaker: | Dr Lee Macdonald |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | The History of the Isaac Newton Telescope |
| Status: | C |
| Date: | 17/08/2020 |
| Speaker: | Dave Jones |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | Birth of the Solar System |
| Status: | V |
| Date: | 21/09/2020 |
| Speaker: | Mike Frost |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Gerhana Mata Hari |
| Status: | V |
| Date: | 19/10/2020 |
| Speaker: | Dr Paul A Daniels |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | The Megaconstellation Threat |
| Status: | V |
| Date: | 16/11/2020 |
| Speaker: | Peter Williamson |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | The Sun and How it Works |
| Status: | V |
| Date: | 21/12/2020 |
| Speaker: | Dr Steve Barrett |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | Science of Santa |
| Status: | V |
| Date: | 2019 |
| Date: | 21/01/2019 |
| Speaker: | Dr Steve Barrett |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | Eclipse of the Sun |
| Date: | 18/02/2019 |
| Speaker: | Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Transient Astronomy, Bursts, Bangs and Things that go Bump in the Night |
| Date: | 18/03/2019 |
| Speaker: | Peter Williamson |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Astrophotography with Public Access Telescopes |
| Date: | 20/05/2019 |
| Speaker: | Justin Bray |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Astronomy in the Fast Lane - Cosmic Rays and Other Sources of Fast Pulses |
| Date: | 17/06/2019 |
| Speaker: | Michael Bryce |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Celebrating Apollo: 50 Years Since the First Moon Landing |
| Date: | 15/07/2019 |
| Speaker: | Richard Hendey |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Earth to Quasars |
| Date: | 19/08/2019 |
| Speaker: | Dr Steve Barrett |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | The Great Moon Hoax |
| Date: | 16/09/2019 |
| Speaker: | Nigel Ball |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Nightscape Photography |
| Date: | 21/10/2019 |
| Speaker: | Dr Sean McGee |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | From Early Ripples to The Milky Way â The Evolution of Galaxies. |
| Date: | 18/11/2019 |
| Speaker: | Peter Jenkins |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Deep Sky Astrophotography |
| Date: | 16/12/2019 |
| Speaker: | Mike Frost |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | An Arctic Eclipse |
| Date: | 2018 |
| Date: | 15/01/2018 |
| Speaker: | Dr Steve Barrett |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | Fiat Lux III |
| Date: | 19/02/2018 |
| Speaker: | Dr Alan Watson |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | The Hunting of the Quark (and other fundamental particles) |
| Date: | 19/03/2018 |
| Speaker: | Professor Ian Robson |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Active Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes |
| Date: | 16/04/2018 |
| Speaker: | Dr Steve Barrett |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | The Lighter Side of Astronomy |
| Date: | 21/05/2018 |
| Speaker: | Justin Bray |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | The High Energy Universe |
| Date: | 18/06/2018 |
| Speaker: | Ann Bonell |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Percival Lowell & The Canals of Mars |
| Date: | 16/07/2018 |
| Speaker: | Richard Hendey |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Tycho toPicard ( Moon Walk ) |
| Date: | 20/08/2018 |
| Speaker: | Dave Jones |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | Radio Astronomy |
| Date: | 17/09/2018 |
| Speaker: | Rob Januszewski |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | An Amateur Research Programme |
| Date: | 15/10/2018 |
| Speaker: | Callum Potter |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Globuler Cluster - Galactic Fossils |
| Date: | 19/11/2018 |
| Speaker: | Gary Poyner |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Variable Stars around the Perseus Cluster |
| Date: | 17/12/2018 |
| Speaker: | Dr Steve Barrett |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | 200 at 70 |
| Date: | 2017 |
| Date: | 16/01/2017 |
| Speaker: | Dave Jones |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | Blackholes: the answer to the ultimate question |
| Date: | 20/02/2017 |
| Speaker: | Dr Steve Barrett |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | Fiat Lux |
| Date: | 15/05/2017 |
| Speaker: | Dr Colin Steele |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Sundials - The Sky as a Clock |
| Date: | 19/06/2017 |
| Speaker: | Mark Gibbons |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Johannes Kepler - Why are things as they are, and not otherwise? |
| Date: | 17/07/2017 |
| Speaker: | Mike Leggett |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | From Salyut to the ISS |
| Date: | 21/08/2017 |
| Speaker: | Dave Jones |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | New Perspectives on the Solar System |
| Date: | 18/09/2017 |
| Speaker: | Callum Potter |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Galaxies |
| Date: | 16/10/2017 |
| Speaker: | Dr Steve Barrett |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | Fiat Lux II |
| Date: | 20/11/2017 |
| Speaker: | Mike Frost |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Jeremiah Horrocks - A very curious astronomer |
| Date: | 18/12/2017 |
| Speaker: | Andrew Lound |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | A Fire in the Sky |
| Date: | 2016 |
| Date: | 15/02/2016 |
| Speaker: | Dr Steve Barrett |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | Warping Space and Time |
| Date: | 21/03/2016 |
| Speaker: | Mike Frost |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Beneath the Shadow of the Moon |
| Date: | 16/05/2016 |
| Speaker: | Guy Hurst |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | UK Nova/Supernova Patrol:From visual to Laptop |
| Date: | 18/07/2016 |
| Speaker: | Damian Peach |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Photographic Highlights |
| Date: | 15/08/2016 |
| Speaker: | Dr Steve Barrett |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | Ramble Through the Night Sky |
| Date: | 19/09/2016 |
| Speaker: | Gary Poyner |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | OJ+287 - The Monster in the Crab |
| Date: | 17/10/2016 |
| Speaker: | Mark Gibbons |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Tycho Brahe |
| Date: | 21/11/2016 |
| Speaker: | Will Gater |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | The Science and Spectacle of the Northern Lights |
| Date: | 19/12/2016 |
| Speaker: | Dr Steve Barrett |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | The Star of Bethlehem |
| Date: | 2015 |
| Date: | 16/03/2015 |
| Speaker: | Damian Peach |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | The Giant Planet Jupiter |
| Date: | 18/05/2015 |
| Speaker: | Mike Frost |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | The Arms of Buddah |
| Date: | 20/07/2015 |
| Speaker: | Dr Steve Barrett |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | Legacy of the Hubble Space Telescope |
| Date: | 17/08/2015 |
| Speaker: | Mark Gibbons |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Beyond Neptune |
| Date: | 21/09/2015 |
| Speaker: | Dr Julian Onions |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Galaxies - 1 gigayear at a time |
| Date: | 19/10/2015 |
| Speaker: | Guy Hurst |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Transients of the Night Sky |
| Date: | 16/11/2015 |
| Speaker: | Dr Gabby Proven |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | A Demonstration of Aurora Planterrella |
| Date: | 2014 |
| Date: | 17/03/2014 |
| Speaker: | Mike Frost |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | The Green Flash |
| Date: | 19/05/2014 |
| Speaker: | Dr Steve Barrett |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | Dark Matter â Why is it Dark? Does it Matter? |
| Date: | 16/06/2014 |
| Speaker: | Mike Merrifield |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | 21st Century Telescopes |
| Date: | 21/07/2014 |
| Speaker: | David Whitehouse |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Galileo - The Real Story |
| Date: | 18/08/2014 |
| Speaker: | Dr Frazer Clarke |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Why Size always Matters |
| Date: | 15/09/2014 |
| Speaker: | Malcolm Mitchell |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Magnetism of the Planets & The Sun |
| Date: | 20/10/2014 |
| Speaker: | Callum Potter |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Globular Clusters - Galactic fossils |
| Date: | 17/11/2014 |
| Speaker: | Dr Mike Leggett |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | The Apollo Years |
| Date: | 15/12/2014 |
| Speaker: | Paul Money |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Images of the Universe |
| Date: | 2013 |
| Date: | 21/01/2013 |
| Speaker: | Mark Gibbons |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Has Saturn eaten his own children? |
| Date: | 18/03/2013 |
| Speaker: | Professor Philippa Browning |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Our Active Sun |
| Date: | 20/05/2013 |
| Speaker: | Bob Marriott |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | The Silver on Glass Revolution |
| Date: | 15/07/2013 |
| Speaker: | Gary Poyner |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Historical Novae |
| Date: | 19/08/2013 |
| Speaker: | Dr Steve Barrett |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | The ABC of Stellar Evolution |
| Date: | 16/09/2013 |
| Speaker: | Mike Frost |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Rainbows |
| Date: | 21/10/2013 |
| Speaker: | Sue Dipple |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | My Journey Through the Galaxy |
| Date: | 18/11/2013 |
| Speaker: | Bob Myzon |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Ten Targets for Light Polluted Areas |
| Date: | 23/12/2013 |
| Speaker: | Andrew Lound |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | To see the beginning of Time |
| Date: | 2012 |
| Date: | 16/01/2012 |
| Speaker: | Roger Pickard |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Stellar Evolution (Part 1) |
| Date: | 19/03/2012 |
| Speaker: | Roger Dymock |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Asteroids and Beyond - A Personal Journey |
| Date: | 18/06/2012 |
| Speaker: | Dr Nick Hewitt |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Exploring the Shapes of Planetary Nebula |
| Date: | 16/07/2012 |
| Speaker: | Dr Martin Griffiths |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Charles Messier & his Objects |
| Date: | 20/08/2012 |
| Speaker: | Rob Dipple |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | Basic Image Processing |
| Date: | 17/09/2012 |
| Speaker: | Dr Steve Barrett |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | The Beginning of Everything |
| Date: | 19/11/2012 |
| Speaker: | Michael Morris |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Webcam Imaging - Equipment & Capture |
| Date: | 2011 |
| Date: | 17/01/2011 |
| Speaker: | Rob Januszewski |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | Variable Star Observing |
| Date: | 21/02/2011 |
| Speaker: | Sheridan Williams |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Fascinating Facts about Solar Eclipses |
| Date: | 21/03/2011 |
| Speaker: | Geoff Mansfield |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | The Antikythera Device |
| Date: | 20/06/2011 |
| Speaker: | Rob Januszewski |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | 35 Years an Astronomer |
| Date: | 18/07/2011 |
| Speaker: | Guy Hurst |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Comets - Visitors to the Solar System |
| Date: | 15/08/2011 |
| Speaker: | Michael Morris |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Observing the Planets |
| Date: | 19/09/2011 |
| Speaker: | Nik Szymanek |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Photographing the Night Sky |
| Date: | 21/11/2011 |
| Speaker: | William Edmondson |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | How to Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence |
| Date: | 2010 |
| Date: | 15/02/2010 |
| Speaker: | Martyn Filsak |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Aurora in the UK |
| Date: | 17/05/2010 |
| Speaker: | Dr Mike Leggett |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Pluto & The Outer Solar System |
| Date: | 21/06/2010 |
| Speaker: | Chris Baddiley |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Light Pollution and the Blight of Stray Light |
| Date: | 16/08/2010 |
| Speaker: | Dr Steve Barrett |
| G/M: | M |
| Title: | Two for one! 'The Great Moon Hoax' and 'The Astrophotographers 'Tracker' |
| Date: | 20/09/2010 |
| Speaker: | Chris Livingstone |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Beneath Southern Skies |
| Date: | 15/11/2010 |
| Speaker: | Nick Hart |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | A Handful of Stars |
| Date: | 2009 |
| Date: | 16/02/2009 |
| Speaker: | Gary Poyner |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Variable Stars - how and why they vary |
| Date: | 18/05/2009 |
| Speaker: | Dr Nick Hewitt |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Deep Sky Observing Projects |
| Date: | 15/06/2009 |
| Speaker: | Roger Pickard |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Making & recording Observations |
| Date: | 17/08/2009 |
| Speaker: | Ann Bonell |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Ladies of the Night |
| Date: | 20/09/2009 |
| Speaker: | Paul Edwards |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | How I discovered the 9th Planet |
| Date: | 16/11/2009 |
| Speaker: | Mike Frost |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | ? |
| Date: | 21/12/2009 |
| Speaker: | Andrew Lound |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Uranus - George's Planet |
| Date: | 2008 |
| Date: | 17/11/2008 |
| Speaker: | Alan Wells |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | The Moon |
| Date: | 15/12/2008 |
| Speaker: | John Dee |
| G/M: | G |
| Title: | Planetary Imaging |
| Date: | G/M - G - Guest Speaker, M - Society Member. |
| Date: | Status - C - Cancelled, V - Virtual |
| Date: | Speaker: | G/M: | Title: | Status: |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | ||||
| 20/01/2025 | Dave Jones | M | The Ice Giants | |
| 17/03/2025 | Dr Nick Hewitt | G | Edge of Darkness -an introduction to Dark Nebulae | |
| 07/04/2025 | Dr Steve Barrett | M | AGM + 'Solar Max' | |
| 2024 | ||||
| 15/01/2024 | Dave Jones | M | Asteroids | |
| 19/02/2024 | Gary Poyner | G | Stella Nova: a Long Road of Discovery | |
| 18/03/2024 | Dr Steve Barrett | M | Cosmic Rays | |
| 15/04/2024 | Andy Checketts | M | Mt. Lemmon Sky Center, Arizona | |
| 20/05/2024 | Ian Johnston | G | Men in Sheds Rocket to the Moon | |
| 17/06/2024 | Kieth Middleton | G | Voyager - The Great Explorer | |
| 15/07/2024 | Daisy Turner | G | Beyond Earth: The Search for Life on Exoplanets | |
| 19/08/2024 | Ingrid Pelisoli | G | The life and death of stars: how company can make a difference | |
| 16/09/2024 | Mike Frost | G | The Yerkes Observatory | |
| 21/10/2024 | Michael Morris | G | Observing Double Stars | |
| 18/11/2024 | Rob Januszewski | M | TBA | |
| 16/12/2024 | Rob Januszewski | M | Christmas Crackers - series of talks by members. | |
| 2023 | ||||
| 16/01/2023 | Dr Steve Barrett | M | The End of Everything | |
| 20/02/2023 | Dave Jones | M | The Planet Mercury | |
| 20/03/2023 | Dr Steve Barrett | M | AGM followed by Tri-band Tribulations | |
| 17/04/2023 | University of Birmingham Space Society | G | Exploring the Universe:Introduction to the goals and methods of space exploration and the importance of science communication. | |
| 15/05/2023 | Dr Jenifer Millard | G | The Hidden Universe with JWST | |
| 19/06/2023 | Dr Leah-Nani Alconcel | G | Goodbye Saturn, hello Jupiter: Exploring the outer Solar System with robotic spacecraft | |
| 17/07/2023 | Sue & Rob Dipple | G | The Leviathan of Parsonstown - Lord Rosse's Telescope at Birr Castle | |
| 21/08/2023 | Dr Steve Barrett | M | Fiat Lux IV - Colour in the Cosmos | |
| 18/09/2023 | Mike Frost | G | The Pioneering Women of the BAA | |
| 16/10/2023 | Professor Nial Tanvir | G | Gamma-ray bursts - the biggest bangs in the universe | |
| 20/11/2023 | Michael Morris | G | Observing the Moon | |
| 2022 | ||||
| 17/01/2022 | Dr Steve Barrett | M | Dark Matter â Why is it Dark? Does it Matter? | V |
| 21/02/2022 | Dave Jones | M | The Planet Venus: Earth's evil twin or just misunderstood. | |
| 21/03/2022 | Professor Nial Tanvir | G | The Big Bang theory in practice | |
| 04/04/2022 | Sue Dipple | M | AGM + Hamburg Observatory: The Ancestral Home of the Schmidt camera | |
| 16/05/2022 | Professor Chris Lintott | G | Where, what and who: Progress in Astronomy's Big Questions | |
| 20/06/2022 | Sue Dipple | M | Proud,Thrilled and Happy - The Women who put a Man on the Moon | |
| 18/07/2022 | Dr Julian Onions | G | Things that go Bang in the Night (Sky) | |
| 15/08/2022 | Dr Lee Macdonald | G | Kew Observatory and the Birth of Solar-Terrestrial Physics | |
| 19/09/2022 | Mike Frost | G | Against all the odds: A Patagonian Eclipse | |
| 17/10/2022 | Professor Amaury Triaud | G | The Ultracool Dwarf and the Seven Planets | |
| 21/11/2022 | Dr Alan Watson | G | Astronomical Neutrinos and Neutrino Astronomy | |
| 19/12/2022 | Members | G | Christmas Crackers - Short Presentations by Members | |
| 2021 | ||||
| 18/01/2021 | Dave Jones | M | Search for Extra- terrestrial life | V |
| 15/02/2021 | Dr Steve Barrett | M | ABC of Galaxy Evolution | V |
| 15/03/2021 | Nigel Ball | G | Photographing the Northern Lights | V |
| 19/04/2021 | Dr Steve Barrett | M | Apollo 13 | V |
| 17/05/2021 | Dr Lee Macdonald | G | From cracked mirror to Nobel Prize: the story of the Isaac Newton Telescope | V |
| 21/06/2021 | Dr Davide Gerosa | G | Hearing the Universe with Gravitational Waves | V |
| 19/07/2021 | Mike Frost | G | Isaac Newton and the Surrey Pumas | V |
| 16/08/2021 | Dr John Davies | G | Sample Return Missions to Near Earth Asteroids | V |
| 20/09/2021 | Sue,Rob & Steve | G | Wild Astronomy | |
| 18/10/2021 | Sue Dipple | M | Members Night | |
| 15/11/2021 | Gary Poyner | G | Variable Stars - how and why they vary | |
| 2020 | ||||
| 20/01/2020 | George Carey | M | Extra-galactic Nova Patrol | |
| 17/02/2020 | Dr Steve Barrett | M | The Beginning of Everything | |
| 16/03/2020 | Dave Jones | M | Cancelled Covid-19 - Birth of the Solar System | C |
| 20/04/2020 | Dr Steve Barrett | M | Cancelled Covid-19 - Apollo 13 | C |
| 18/05/2020 | Nigel Ball | G | Cancelled Covid-19 - Photographing the Northern Lights | C |
| 15/06/2020 | Martin Braddock | G | Cancelled Covid-19 - Countdown to Mars - Challenges for long duration space travel & colonisation | C |
| 15/06/2020 | Dr Steve Barrett | M | Just a Second | V |
| 20/07/2020 | David Shayler | G | Cancelled Covid-19 - The ISS-From Here to There | C |
| 20/07/2020 | Dr Steve Barrett | M | Unidentified Flying Objects | V |
| 17/08/2020 | Dr Lee Macdonald | G | The History of the Isaac Newton Telescope | C |
| 17/08/2020 | Dave Jones | M | Birth of the Solar System | V |
| 21/09/2020 | Mike Frost | G | Gerhana Mata Hari | V |
| 19/10/2020 | Dr Paul A Daniels | G | The Megaconstellation Threat | V |
| 16/11/2020 | Peter Williamson | G | The Sun and How it Works | V |
| 21/12/2020 | Dr Steve Barrett | M | Science of Santa | V |
| 2019 | ||||
| 21/01/2019 | Dr Steve Barrett | M | Eclipse of the Sun | |
| 18/02/2019 | Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell | G | Transient Astronomy, Bursts, Bangs and Things that go Bump in the Night | |
| 18/03/2019 | Peter Williamson | G | Astrophotography with Public Access Telescopes | |
| 20/05/2019 | Justin Bray | G | Astronomy in the Fast Lane - Cosmic Rays and Other Sources of Fast Pulses | |
| 17/06/2019 | Michael Bryce | G | Celebrating Apollo: 50 Years Since the First Moon Landing | |
| 15/07/2019 | Richard Hendey | G | Earth to Quasars | |
| 19/08/2019 | Dr Steve Barrett | M | The Great Moon Hoax | |
| 16/09/2019 | Nigel Ball | G | Nightscape Photography | |
| 21/10/2019 | Dr Sean McGee | G | From Early Ripples to The Milky Way â The Evolution of Galaxies. | |
| 18/11/2019 | Peter Jenkins | G | Deep Sky Astrophotography | |
| 16/12/2019 | Mike Frost | G | An Arctic Eclipse | |
| 2018 | ||||
| 15/01/2018 | Dr Steve Barrett | M | Fiat Lux III | |
| 19/02/2018 | Dr Alan Watson | G | The Hunting of the Quark (and other fundamental particles) | |
| 19/03/2018 | Professor Ian Robson | G | Active Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes | |
| 16/04/2018 | Dr Steve Barrett | M | The Lighter Side of Astronomy | |
| 21/05/2018 | Justin Bray | G | The High Energy Universe | |
| 18/06/2018 | Ann Bonell | G | Percival Lowell & The Canals of Mars | |
| 16/07/2018 | Richard Hendey | G | Tycho toPicard ( Moon Walk ) | |
| 20/08/2018 | Dave Jones | M | Radio Astronomy | |
| 17/09/2018 | Rob Januszewski | M | An Amateur Research Programme | |
| 15/10/2018 | Callum Potter | G | Globuler Cluster - Galactic Fossils | |
| 19/11/2018 | Gary Poyner | G | Variable Stars around the Perseus Cluster | |
| 17/12/2018 | Dr Steve Barrett | M | 200 at 70 | |
| 2017 | ||||
| 16/01/2017 | Dave Jones | M | Blackholes: the answer to the ultimate question | |
| 20/02/2017 | Dr Steve Barrett | M | Fiat Lux | |
| 15/05/2017 | Dr Colin Steele | G | Sundials - The Sky as a Clock | |
| 19/06/2017 | Mark Gibbons | G | Johannes Kepler - Why are things as they are, and not otherwise? | |
| 17/07/2017 | Mike Leggett | G | From Salyut to the ISS | |
| 21/08/2017 | Dave Jones | M | New Perspectives on the Solar System | |
| 18/09/2017 | Callum Potter | G | Galaxies | |
| 16/10/2017 | Dr Steve Barrett | M | Fiat Lux II | |
| 20/11/2017 | Mike Frost | G | Jeremiah Horrocks - A very curious astronomer | |
| 18/12/2017 | Andrew Lound | G | A Fire in the Sky | |
| 2016 | ||||
| 15/02/2016 | Dr Steve Barrett | M | Warping Space and Time | |
| 21/03/2016 | Mike Frost | G | Beneath the Shadow of the Moon | |
| 16/05/2016 | Guy Hurst | G | UK Nova/Supernova Patrol:From visual to Laptop | |
| 18/07/2016 | Damian Peach | G | Photographic Highlights | |
| 15/08/2016 | Dr Steve Barrett | M | Ramble Through the Night Sky | |
| 19/09/2016 | Gary Poyner | G | OJ+287 - The Monster in the Crab | |
| 17/10/2016 | Mark Gibbons | G | Tycho Brahe | |
| 21/11/2016 | Will Gater | G | The Science and Spectacle of the Northern Lights | |
| 19/12/2016 | Dr Steve Barrett | M | The Star of Bethlehem | |
| 2015 | ||||
| 16/03/2015 | Damian Peach | G | The Giant Planet Jupiter | |
| 18/05/2015 | Mike Frost | G | The Arms of Buddah | |
| 20/07/2015 | Dr Steve Barrett | M | Legacy of the Hubble Space Telescope | |
| 17/08/2015 | Mark Gibbons | G | Beyond Neptune | |
| 21/09/2015 | Dr Julian Onions | G | Galaxies - 1 gigayear at a time | |
| 19/10/2015 | Guy Hurst | G | Transients of the Night Sky | |
| 16/11/2015 | Dr Gabby Proven | G | A Demonstration of Aurora Planterrella | |
| 2014 | ||||
| 17/03/2014 | Mike Frost | G | The Green Flash | |
| 19/05/2014 | Dr Steve Barrett | M | Dark Matter â Why is it Dark? Does it Matter? | |
| 16/06/2014 | Mike Merrifield | G | 21st Century Telescopes | |
| 21/07/2014 | David Whitehouse | G | Galileo - The Real Story | |
| 18/08/2014 | Dr Frazer Clarke | G | Why Size always Matters | |
| 15/09/2014 | Malcolm Mitchell | G | Magnetism of the Planets & The Sun | |
| 20/10/2014 | Callum Potter | G | Globular Clusters - Galactic fossils | |
| 17/11/2014 | Dr Mike Leggett | G | The Apollo Years | |
| 15/12/2014 | Paul Money | G | Images of the Universe | |
| 2013 | ||||
| 21/01/2013 | Mark Gibbons | G | Has Saturn eaten his own children? | |
| 18/03/2013 | Professor Philippa Browning | G | Our Active Sun | |
| 20/05/2013 | Bob Marriott | G | The Silver on Glass Revolution | |
| 15/07/2013 | Gary Poyner | G | Historical Novae | |
| 19/08/2013 | Dr Steve Barrett | M | The ABC of Stellar Evolution | |
| 16/09/2013 | Mike Frost | G | Rainbows | |
| 21/10/2013 | Sue Dipple | M | My Journey Through the Galaxy | |
| 18/11/2013 | Bob Myzon | G | Ten Targets for Light Polluted Areas | |
| 23/12/2013 | Andrew Lound | G | To see the beginning of Time | |
| 2012 | ||||
| 16/01/2012 | Roger Pickard | G | Stellar Evolution (Part 1) | |
| 19/03/2012 | Roger Dymock | G | Asteroids and Beyond - A Personal Journey | |
| 18/06/2012 | Dr Nick Hewitt | G | Exploring the Shapes of Planetary Nebula | |
| 16/07/2012 | Dr Martin Griffiths | G | Charles Messier & his Objects | |
| 20/08/2012 | Rob Dipple | M | Basic Image Processing | |
| 17/09/2012 | Dr Steve Barrett | M | The Beginning of Everything | |
| 19/11/2012 | Michael Morris | G | Webcam Imaging - Equipment & Capture | |
| 2011 | ||||
| 17/01/2011 | Rob Januszewski | M | Variable Star Observing | |
| 21/02/2011 | Sheridan Williams | G | Fascinating Facts about Solar Eclipses | |
| 21/03/2011 | Geoff Mansfield | G | The Antikythera Device | |
| 20/06/2011 | Rob Januszewski | M | 35 Years an Astronomer | |
| 18/07/2011 | Guy Hurst | G | Comets - Visitors to the Solar System | |
| 15/08/2011 | Michael Morris | G | Observing the Planets | |
| 19/09/2011 | Nik Szymanek | G | Photographing the Night Sky | |
| 21/11/2011 | William Edmondson | G | How to Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence | |
| 2010 | ||||
| 15/02/2010 | Martyn Filsak | G | Aurora in the UK | |
| 17/05/2010 | Dr Mike Leggett | G | Pluto & The Outer Solar System | |
| 21/06/2010 | Chris Baddiley | G | Light Pollution and the Blight of Stray Light | |
| 16/08/2010 | Dr Steve Barrett | M | Two for one! 'The Great Moon Hoax' and 'The Astrophotographers 'Tracker' | |
| 20/09/2010 | Chris Livingstone | G | Beneath Southern Skies | |
| 15/11/2010 | Nick Hart | G | A Handful of Stars | |
| 2009 | ||||
| 16/02/2009 | Gary Poyner | G | Variable Stars - how and why they vary | |
| 18/05/2009 | Dr Nick Hewitt | G | Deep Sky Observing Projects | |
| 15/06/2009 | Roger Pickard | G | Making & recording Observations | |
| 17/08/2009 | Ann Bonell | G | Ladies of the Night | |
| 20/09/2009 | Paul Edwards | G | How I discovered the 9th Planet | |
| 16/11/2009 | Mike Frost | G | ? | |
| 21/12/2009 | Andrew Lound | G | Uranus - George's Planet | |
| 2008 | ||||
| 17/11/2008 | Alan Wells | G | The Moon | |
| 15/12/2008 | John Dee | G | Planetary Imaging | |
| G/M - G - Guest Speaker, M - Society Member. | ||||
| Status - C - Cancelled, V - Virtual | ||||