Tag Archives: Guest Speaker

February Ayton Village Hall Meeting

Unfortunately due to illness, society founder and honorary president John Harper was unable to give the second installment of his talk on the Moon at the February meeting at Ayton Village Hall.  Don’t worry though, we will reschedule John for … Continue reading






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Society Meeting for June Goes With a Bang

The June meeting of the society saw a talk on supernovae by guest speaker Prof. Sam Falle, Professor of Fluid Dynamics at the School of Mathematics at Leeds University. Society treasurer Mell Jeffery  FRAS writes: “Prof. Sam Falle started the … Continue reading






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Alternative Explanations Given at Society Meeting

Joining us as guest speaker for the May meeting of the society at Ayton Village Hall was returning speaker Jeremy Dunning Davies, retired senior lecturer in applied mathematics at the University of Hull. Jeremy’s talk focussed on alternative explanations in … Continue reading






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Active Galactic Nuclei with Dr Stuart Lumsden

The guest speaker for the April meeting of the society at Ayton Village Hall was Dr Stuart Lumsden from the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leeds.  Due to Good Friday, the meeting was brought forward to … Continue reading






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Paul Money – Images of the Universe, Volume 1 – 21st February

The February monthly meeting of the society was held at Ayton Village Hall on Friday 21st February.  Guest speaker for the meeting was Paul Money FRAS FBIS who had last visited the society around a year earlier.  The topic for … Continue reading






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Plenty of Dark Energy at Ayton Village Hall

The society held their monthly meeting for November at Ayton Village Hall on Friday the 15th and the visiting guest speaker in front of a well attended meeting was Prof. Shaun Cole, deputy director of the Institute of Computational Cosmology … Continue reading






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SARAS Members Given Talk In Cosmic Recycling

The guest speaker for the October meeting of Scarborough & Ryedale Astronomical Society was Dr Janet Humphreys, formerly of Leeds University and a current Open University tutor on the 2nd level astronomy and planetary science courses.  The talk given by … Continue reading






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Talk: “Space Chemistry” by Dr Chris Arridge

The society was visited on Friday 19th July by Dr Chris Arridge of the Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL) at University College London (UCL).  Chris delivered a talk entitled “Space Chemistry”; a talk he originally developed for the International Year … Continue reading






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