Event Calendar

Jun
16
Fri
2017
Ayton Meeting – End of Season Spectacular @ Ayton Village Hall
Jun 16 @ 19:45 – 21:30

Ayton Meeting – End of Season Spectacular

A selection of presentations by S&RAS Members, for Members, on a range of Astronomy topics

Cakes will be in attendance, as well as an Astro Quiz

 

 

 

Sep
15
Fri
2017
Guest Speaker: Jurgen Schmoll – Balloon Borne Astronomy -15 September 2017 @ Ayton Village Hall
Sep 15 @ 19:45 – 21:30

Friday 15th September 7.45pm, East Ayton Village Hall

Guest Speaker: Jurgen Schmoll – Balloon Borne Astronomy.

The talk Jurgen was due to give us back in February which had to be postponed.

Sep
29
Fri
2017
Introduction to Astronomy – 29 September 2017 @ Ayton Village Hall
Sep 29 @ 19:45 – 21:30

Friday 29th September 7.45pm, East Ayton Village Hall

Introduction to Astronomy event

 

Oct
20
Fri
2017
Guest Speaker: Yjan Gordon, Hull University – Extragalactic Astronomy in a Nutshell, 20 October 2017 @ Ayton Village Hall
Oct 20 @ 19:45 – 21:30

Friday 20 October 7.45pm, East Ayton Village Hall

Yjan Gordon of Hull University explains how we observe galaxies in the 21st century, what we can see, and why it matters.

Nov
17
Fri
2017
Guest Speaker: Stuart Atkinson – “ROSETTA – Landing On a Comet. Europe’s Apollo” – 17 November 2017 @ Ayton Village Hall
Nov 17 @ 19:45 – 21:30

Friday 17 November 7.45pm, East Ayton Village Hall

In his talk “ROSETTA – Landing On a Comet. Europe’s Apollo” guest speaker Stuart Atkinson, from Kendal in Cumbria, will look back at the European Space Agency’s hugely successful Rosetta mission to explore the comet 67P, which culminated in the first ever landing of a space probe on the surface of a comet.

Using a combination of official ESA images and exclusive images he has produced himself, by processing the raw data sent back by the Rosetta spacecraft, Stuart will take the audience on a fascinating tour of the enigmatic, ancient object the mission explored. The comet’s towering, crumbling ice cliffs, its huge jets of dust and gas and its rubble-strewn snowy plains will all be seen in exquisite detail.

And after the talk there’ll be a chance for members of the audience to actually “sniff a comet”… !

Jan
19
Fri
2018
Guest Speaker: Professor Brad Gibson, Hull University – Where are the Aliens? – 19 January 2018 @ Ayton Village Hall
Jan 19 @ 19:45 – 21:30

19 January 2018 7.45pm, East Ayton Village Hall

Have we been visited before? Are they out there watching… listening… studying us? And if they are out there, where might ‘there’ be? Our Milky Way Galaxy can be a nasty and inhospitable place for life to develop… but, all is not lost… there are some very unique and special places hidden amongst this hostile environment where the building blocks for life might just be right for extraterrestrial life to flourish. In this lecture, Professor Brad Gibson will examine the evidence for and against the existence of extraterrestrial life, and walk you through the associated good, bad, and ugly corners of our Galaxy.

Professor Brad Gibson is the Director of the E.A. Milne Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Hull.  Brad completed his MSc and PhD at the University of British Columbia, building the world’s first Liquid Mirror Telescope Observatory and designing software to map the distribution of the chemical elements throughout the Universe.   Brad was responsible for using exploding stars to determine the expansion rate of the Universe, as part of the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale, for which the team was awarded the 2009 Gruber Prize in Cosmology.  With his PhD students, Brad also discovered the first evidence that our own Milky Way’s nearest neighbours were being cannibalised by our Galaxy, being ripped apart by intense tidal forces. Brad’s work has been acknowledged by his peers 20,000 times, making him Hull’s most cited academic, and one of the top few percent in the world. His 300 papers to date also include the identification of the locations within the Milky Way most likely to harbour complex biological life, for which his work was named by National Geographic magazine as one of the top 10 news stories of the year. His recent work has been in trying to link his expertise in galactic chemical evolution, with complex cosmological hydrodynamical schemes, in order to model the time evolution of the chemical and dynamical properties of the Milky Way.

Feb
16
Fri
2018
The Origin of Elements in the Universe – 16 February 2018 @ Ayton Village Hall
Feb 16 @ 19:45 – 21:30

16 February 2018 7.45pm, East Ayton Village Hall

A talk by Dr Gareth Few, University of Hull.

Full details nearer the time

 

Apr
20
Fri
2018
Talk: John Nichol – Title TBC – 21 April 2018 @ Ayton Village Hall
Apr 20 @ 19:45 – 21:30

21 April 2018 7.45pm, East Ayton Village Hall

John Nichol – Title TBC.

May
18
Fri
2018
Guest Speaker: Paul Money – Triumphs of Voyager Part 2 – 18 May 2018 @ Ayton Village Hall
May 18 @ 19:45 – 21:30
 
Paul on his visit to SARAS back in Feb 2013.

Paul on his visit to SARAS back in Feb 2013.

The society is delighted to bring back regular speaker Paul Money, from the BBC Sky at Night magazine, for what will be another excellent talk with Part 2 of his Triumphs of Voyager presentation.

 

 

Jun
15
Fri
2018
Ayton Meeting – End of Season Spectacular – 15 June 2018 @ Ayton Village Hall
Jun 15 @ 19:45 – 21:30

15 June 2018 7.45pm, East Ayton Village Hall

End of Season Spectacular

A selection of presentations by S&RAS Members, for Members, on a range of Astronomy topics

Cakes will be in attendance, as well as an Astro Quiz