Meetings 2015-16

Meeting programmes and other advanced information is emailed to members who have contacted Colin Harris. See also, Colin's Newsletter(s) on this website.

13.10.15 Gary Poyner FRAS ‘Variable Stars - How and Why they Vary’

10.11.15 Dr Steve Foulkes FRAS 'Cataclysmic Variable Stars' This builds on the previous talk and takes us into Steve's research.

08.12.15 Short talks by members, mince pies and a whole lot more!

10.12.15 The MARS Members' Christmas Dinner 7.30pm, Old Court Hotel, Symonds Yat (West).

12.01.16 Andrew Williamson 'Gravitational Waves' (Precise title TBC. Haley Gomez has had to postpone her talk and Andrew has kindly stepped in.) STOP PRESS: excellent timing in view of the discovery of gravitational waves a month later.

09.02.16 Dr David Morgan 'Discovery of New Astronomical Phenomenon - Fast Radio Bursts'

08.03.16 Dr Keith Moseley FRAS 'Measuring the Solar System'.

09.04.16 Observing Evening at the Babbington Centre, Trellech. 7.30pm till late. NOTE: Saturday not the usual Tuesday.

12.04.16 Dr Matt Smith (Cardiff University) ‘A Clean Sweep for Dust in the Universe’

09.05.16 Transit of Mercury 12.12-19.41 BST. Observations from Monmouth School, weather permitting. Further details from Keith Moseley.

10.05.16 Dr Steve Foulkes FRAS 'Obtaining star spectra using a CCD camera'.

14.06.16 Mark Gibbons ‘Beyond Neptune’ and Sam Sully 'High Altitude Balloon Flight'.

02.07.16 MARS will be represented at The Big Day Out festival at Kate Humble's farm in Penallt.