Speaker meetings

 

Location

Newbury United Reformed Church Hall,
Off West Street
Newbury

Access to the hall is through the tunnel in the large brick building.

Parking is available in the Mothercare car park 20 yards form the tunnel entrance.
Please do not park in the URC car park unless you are bringing heavy items to the meeting or are disabled. Thank you.


 

Click here for local map or here for interactive map

 

 

 

All main Meetings are held on the first Friday of the month unless otherwise stated.

 

 

 

Meeting starts at 7:30pm

 

 

 

September 5th

 
The English Mounting
 
Peter Hingley (Royal Astronomical Society Librarian)
 
 
October 3rd
 
Exploring the Structure of Planetary Nebulae
 
Dr. Nick Hewitt (BAA)
 
 
November 7th
 
Galaxies & Black Holes
 
Prof. Roger Davies (Oxford University)
 
 
December 5th
 
The Radial Velocity Experiment, Gaia and a Historical Coincidence
 
Dr. George Seabroke (Open University)
 
 
December 20th
 
Christmas Dinner
 
Thomas Harriott: The Englishman Who Beat Galileo
 
Dr. Allan Chapman (Oxford University)
 
 

January 9th, 2009

 
The Ultimate Timeline, The Story of the Universe
 
Dr. Francis Diego (University of London Observatory)
 
NOTE: This meeting will be held at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
 
 
February 6th
 
Shield for the Starship Enterprise
 
Dr. Ruth Bamford (RAL)
 
 
March 6th
 
An Amateur's Search for Supernovae
 
Ron Arbour
 

Supernovae from Monasteries to Light Echoes

 
Guy Hurst
 
 
March 27th
 
Star party
 
Thatcham Nature Discovery Centre
 
This meeting is in place of the April meeting which clashes with the Winchester Weekend
 
 
April 3rd - 5th
 
BAA Winchester Weekend
 
 
May 1st
 
Microquasars: Scaled Down Versions of Powerful Supermassive Black Holes
 
Sebastian Perez (Oxford University)
 
 
June 5th
 
Mmmagma: Edible Demonstrations of Volcanic Processes
 
Dr. Alison Rust (Bristol University)
 
Talk is followed by the AGM