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Keith Mosely FRAS, from Monmouth Astronomical Research Society, is coming to talk to us about the BepiColombo joint European/Japanese mission to investigate the planet Mercury. Usual time and place, 7:30pm in an upper room at the Kings Head, next to Abergavenny Town Hall. All are most welcome ESA-JAXA BepiColombo probe to Mercury BepiColombo is a […] For information there is a lecture on the geology of Mars at Swansea University on Saturday 15th December 2018, it will be given by Professor Sangeev Gupta from Imperial College, London. The event is hosted by the South Wales Geological Association (SWGA). The meeting will begin at 11:00 am with refreshments being served from 10:15 […] As day was breaking in Siberia on the 15 February 2013, a huge meteor descended at over 60,000 kilometers per hour over the Ural Mountains and exploded at an altitude of 25–30 kilometers over the industrial town of Chelyabinsk. It had an estimated equivalent explosive force of 500,000 tonnes of TNT. It showered […] Usk Astronomical Society will be holding the Mike Thomas Lecture on the 20th December 2018 and all members of Abergavenny Society are cordially invited. This year our old friend Dr. Paul Roche from Cardiff University School of Physics and Astronomy will present on “Robotic Astronomy”. The meeting will start at 7pm in the Old Grammar […] Our next meeting will be a presentation by Chris Starr, FRAS FBIS, IAAA. The title of his talk will be Journey to the dawn of the Solar System This will look at the history of the solar system focusing on NASA’s Dawn Mission. The Dawn Mission was launched in 2007 to study the asteroid belt objects […] The next meeting is next Monday evening, 12th November. Usual time and place, 7:30pm at the Kings Head, Abergavenny. It will be a “chat round the table” session. No fixed agenda, but an open meeting. However, there are a number of topics that I have read about over the last month, see below. Mission Updates:- […] Next Meeting Monday 22nd October : Amber Hornsby, Cardiff – “Detecting the Invisible Universe” Monday 12th November : Discussion/chat on various astronomy topics Monday 26th November : Chris Starr, FRAS FBIS, IAAA, Wells & Mendip Astronomers – “Voyage to the Dawn of the Solar System”. Usual Time and Place; 7:30pm, Kings Head, Abergavenny. Everyone most welcome The next meeting will be on Monday, 8th Oct. Usual time and place:- 7:30pm at the Kings Head, next to Abergavenny town hall. This month rather than mainly talk about a single item there are a number of topics that have caught my eye over the last few weeks that we can explore. I have […] For our next meeting we welcome back Andy Burns, Chairman of the Wiltshire AS and co-director of the Griffin Educational Observatory, Andalucia. The title of his talk is “Welcome to the Dark Side: Dark nebulae, discovery and views“ It should be of interest to everyone, with plenty of pictures I am sure. Andy may […] “The trouble with telescopes” Amateur telescopes come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, have you ever wondered why there are so many different types and what they all do? In this session we will look into the intrinsic shortcomings of many designs and what has been done to overcome them. If you are considering […] |
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