Southampton Astronomical Society

21/01/2021

I hope 2021 is going as well as possible for you under the weird circumstances we are all living in. However, I think there has never been a better time to think about the universe around us, so hopefully these events might be of interest.

Saturday 27th March 2021: Merseyside Astronomy Day (online)
The tickets for this year's online MAD are now available. Tickets are free, but places will be limited so please make sure you book yours: https://www.astro.ljmu.ac.uk/mad/book.html

12th to 28th February 2021: National Parks Virtual Dark Skies Festival 2021 (online)
Just a few weeks after being awarded official Dark Sky Reserve status, the Yorkshire Dales and North Yorkshire Moors parks are celebrating with their annual Dark Skies Festival, held online from 12th to 28th February. I'm delighted to have been asked to talk, but there are lots of other excellent speakers if you are fed up with me.
See https://gostargazing.co.uk/festival

9th to 17th February 2021: DarwIN Shrewsbury Festival (largely online)
A general science festival, not just astronomy, it look likes there are some excellent events here to broaden anyone's interest (plus me again - sorry). See https://darwin.originalshrewsbury.co.uk/

The National Parks Virtual Dark Skies Festival 2021 takes place from 12th February through to the 28th February 2021. It is run in collaboration with the Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors National Parks with support from the team at Go Stargazing. This year will be the festival’s 6th anniversar...

14/01/2021

Its 2021, first meeting of the year Left in Space
Dr Lilian Hobbs FRAS
http://sas-astro.co.uk/contact

04/11/2020

Mars and Solar Observing sessions planned for this week, check your email for details.

19/06/2020

The Southampton Astronomical Society are now holding their meetings online via Zoom

17/05/2017

All SAS Members

We have to change the date of our June meeting as it is being used as a Polling Station

We will now meet on the 3rd Thursday 15th June. We will have two talks. Lilian Hobbs on 'indoor observing' and Neil Gwillym on 'what sort of observatory or you want an observatory'. Our June speaker on making a sun dial will now come in July.

07/05/2017

his month's meeting
Thursday 11th May 2017, will be a talk by James Fradgley
“Strife among the Martian Canals"

7.30pm. Start.

Isaac Watts Memorial United Reformed Church,
Wi******er Road, Shirley,
Southampton, SO16 6TS.

June meeting is a Sundial making workshop, it will help if you can bring along any of the things on the list for the workshop.
• Pencil, Ruler, Protractor, Pair of compasses (they could share if not everyone has one).
• Rubber if they have one, if not share, Prit Stick or similar glue (or could share).
• 1m length if thin string (they will probably only need 0.5m so 1m is plenty),
• A cardboard cereal packet (we will only use either the front or back so the edges could be cut-off)
• Scissors for cutting the cardboard cereal packet and string.
• Sticky tape such as cellotape. (or could share).
Wanted - A non-member is looking for a starter telescope for his 8 year old grandson. If you have one to sale please let me know, at the meeting, email or phone 02380327952.

09/04/2017

This month's meeting
Thursday 13th April 2017, will be a talk by
Professor Nils Anderson

“Neutron Stars and the extremes of physics"

7.30pm. Start.

Isaac Watts Memorial United Reformed Church,
Wi******er Road, Shirley,
Southampton, SO16 6TS.

06/03/2017

This month's meeting
Thursday 9th of March, will be a talk by Neil Gwillym,

“Finding your way around the night sky & what can I see with a small telescope"

7.30pm. Start.

Isaac Watts Memorial United Reformed Church,
Wi******er Road, Shirley,
Southampton, SO16 6TS.

05/02/2017

This month's meeting
Thursday 9th February, will be a talk by Damian Peach,

“High Resolution Astrophotography"

7.30pm. Start.

Isaac Watts Memorial United Reformed Church,
Wi******er Road, Shirley,
Southampton, SO16 6TS.

http://www.damianpeach.com/

11/12/2016

This month's meeting
Thursday 15th December, will be our annual Christmas party meeting, which will have an American Supper, raffle and Film show.
7.30pm. Start.

Isaac Watts Memorial United Reformed Church,
Wi******er Road, Shirley,
Southampton, SO16 6TS.

Please remember Sub's are now due if you have not yet renewed.

10/10/2016

This month's meeting
Thursday 13th October, will be a talk by Jerry Workman,

“Spirit & Opportunity on Mars"

7.30pm. Start.

Isaac Watts Memorial United Reformed Church,
Wi******er Road, Shirley,
Southampton, SO16 6TS.

07/09/2016

This month's meeting
Thursday 8th September 2016, will be the AGM followed by the John Thompson Memorial Lecture, given by Dr Lilian Hobbs

7.30pm. Start.

Isaac Watts Memorial United Reformed Church,
Wi******er Road, Shirley,
Southampton, SO16 6TS.

11/07/2016

This month's meeting
Thursday 14th July 2016, will be a talk by Francesco Shankar,

“Discovering the evolutionary patterns to form the most massive galaxies in the present-day Universe"

7.30pm. Start.

Isaac Watts Memorial United Reformed Church,
Wi******er Road, Shirley,
Southampton, SO16 6TS.

22/06/2016

Great interview about the 1997 Mir accident.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36549109

In June 1997, astronauts on the Russian space station Mir faced disaster after the worst collision in the history of manned space flight.

08/06/2016

This month's meeting
Thursday 9th June 2016, will be a talk by Sebastian Hoenig,

“ Black Holes, how to measure them and why we care about them."

7.30pm. Start.

Isaac Watts Memorial United Reformed Church,
Wi******er Road, Shirley,
Southampton, SO16 6TS.

09/05/2016

My only shot of the Mercury Transit today

10/04/2016

APRIL MEETING REMINDER

Thursday 14th April 2016, will be a talk by Rob Fear.
“Earth's Aurora and Magnetosphere"

7.30pm. Start.
Isaac Watts Memorial United Reformed Church,
Wi******er Road, Shirley,
Southampton, SO16 6TS.

Non-members are welcome to attend.
The first meeting is free of charge with no obligation to join.

12/02/2016

Dr Diego Altaminaro, spoke yesterday as a replacement for Professor Malcolm Coe. Amazing talk "Maping the orbits of neutron stars around black holes. Not as difficult as finding needles in haystacks" On using Fourier Transform to find signals in the apparent noise of the electron magnetic spectrum. Great speaker, engaging, enthusiastic and accessible to all levels of knowledge. Also as an aside the science was a perfect fit for the press release on the detection of gravitational waves. Just Brilliant!!!