Meetings 2021-22

In the post pandemic period (spring 2022) we are experiencing poor turnout for live meetings. We have therefore decided to cancel the rest of the 2021-2022 programme and relaunch on the 13th September 2022. As members appreciate, booking speakers requires some work and is not rewarding if few people attend. Hopefully the situation will improve in the autumn but, if not, we will need to review matters after that.

15th August 2021: Star Party.

14th September 2021: Dr Keith Moseley: 'Ice Giants' An examination of the mysterious and only once-visited planets Neptune and Uranus.

12th October 2021: Dr Steve Foulkes (QinetiQ): 'The QinetiQ Optical Ground Station (OGS)', Steve has been testing a Ritchey Chrétien telescope for QinetiQ and tells us what its astronomical capabilities are.

9th November 2021: Dr Andy Briggs: 'How to Photograph a Black Hole: The Story of the Event Horizon Telescope"

14th December 2021: The MARS Xmas Party: Bring your own ten minute talks. Any subject connected to astronomy.

11th January 2022: Dr Will Sutherland (Queen Mary, University of London): Title to follow

8th February 2022: Nick Busby (Abergavenny AS): 'History and Development of the Telescope'

8th March 2022: Mary McIntyre: 'Shadows in Space and the Stories They Tell'. Mary shows how shadow detail can be illustrated with drawings and goes on to explain how the height of terrain on the Moon and other objects can be calculated from shadow lengths.

12th April 2022: Quiz Night Hopefully we can all return to normal and meet at Monmouth School. Everyone can take part on this night and we promise to keep the quiz simple!

10th May 2022 Bob Wright (Usk AS): 'The James Webb Space Telescope'   The final session in our telescope duo.

14th June 2022 Cancelled

August 2022: Star Party, Venue to be arranged.