{"id":948,"date":"2014-04-29T07:59:40","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T07:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/?page_id=948"},"modified":"2014-04-30T10:37:27","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T10:37:27","slug":"2013-archive","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/?page_id=948","title":{"rendered":"2013 Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>2013<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>7th January 2013 \u00a0 : \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong>AAS Talk \u00a0 : \u00a0 Nick Busby and Stuart Keenor \u00a0 : \u00a0 &#8216;Using and Choosing Telescopes&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>21st January 2013 \u00a0 : \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong>Cosmology Study Group \u00a0 : \u00a0 Keith Williams \u00a0 : \u00a0 Lost Lithium<\/p>\n<p><strong>4th February 2013 \u00a0 : \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>AAS Talk \u00a0 : \u00a0 Ray Cassar from USK AS \u00a0 : \u00a0 &#8216;Gravitational Lensing&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>18th February 2013 \u00a0 : \u00a0 <\/strong><\/strong>Cosmology Study Group \u00a0 : \u00a0 Nick Busby \u00a0 : \u00a0 An Introduction to Space-Time<\/p>\n<p><strong>4th March 2013 \u00a0 : \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>AAS Annual General Meeting\u00a0followed by a talk &#8211; Roger Butler\u00a0 from Cardiff AS &#8211;\u00a0 \u2018Astronomy \u2013 The Ultimate Question: Why on Earth do we do it?&#8217;\u00a0\u00a0 This was\u00a0a wide ranging presentation of the ways in which we interact with astronomy, what we do about it and how it relates to the people we are.\u00a0\u00a0It provoked\u00a0both thought and debate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7<sup>th<\/sup> March 2013 \u00a0 : \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Members of Abergavenny AS, Usk AS and\u00a0HOVAS met at Llanthony Priory\u00a0for an\u00a0event\u00a0hosted by Julia Bradbury for the BBC TV show\u00a0<i>Countryfile. \u00a0<\/i>It was<i>\u00a0<\/i>broadcast on Sunday 24th March. \u00a0pm.\u00a0\u00a0 Ruth Coulthard from the Brecon Beacons Park Authority and Martin Griffiths from Pontyprydd University also featured.<\/p>\n<p><strong>18th\u00a0March 2013 \u00a0 : \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Comology Study Group \u00a0 : \u00a0 Nick Busby \u00a0 :<\/p>\n<p><strong>8th April 2013 \u00a0 : \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>AAS Talk \u00a0 : \u00a0 Prof Chandra Wickramasinghe, Cardiff \u00a0 : \u00a0 &#8216;The evidence for our cosmic ancestry&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><strong>22nd April 2013 \u00a0 : \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Comology Study Group \u00a0 : \u00a0 Tony\u00a0Pearce \u00a0 : \u00a0 \u00a0&#8216;The Uncertainty Principle&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><strong>13th May 2013 \u00a0 : \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>AAS Talk \u00a0 : \u00a0 Prof Mike Edmunds \u00a0 : \u00a0 &#8216;When will we discover other life in the Universe?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1oth June 2013 \u00a0 : \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>AAS Talk \u00a0 : \u00a0 Dr Adam Mosely \u00a0 : \u00a0 The Copernican Question<\/p>\n<p><strong>1st July 2013 \u00a0 <\/strong>: \u00a0 AAS Talk \u00a0 : \u00a0 Dave Powell \u00a0 : \u00a0 Binocular Astronomy<\/p>\n<p><strong>2nd\u00a0September 2013 \u00a0 : \u00a0 <\/strong>AAS Talk \u00a0 : \u00a0 John Mallett \u00a0 : \u00a0 Those wonderful images of the Orion Nebula\u00a0&#8211; 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