{"id":950,"date":"2014-04-29T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/?page_id=950"},"modified":"2015-03-19T17:45:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T17:45:10","slug":"2014-archive","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/?page_id=950","title":{"rendered":"2014 Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>2014<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>20th January 2014 \u00a0 : \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Cosmology Study Group \u00a0 : \u00a0 Kevin Houston (Keith Williams) \u00a0 : \u00a0 Astrobiology<\/p>\n<p><strong>27th January 2014 \u00a0 :<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0AAS talk \u00a0 : \u00a0 Nick Busby \u00a0 : \u00a0 &#8220;Then &amp; Now&#8221;, Robert Bell and the impacts of the Victorians on Astronomy and Cosmology<\/p>\n<p><strong>17th February 2014 \u00a0 : \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Cosmology Study Group \u00a0 : \u00a0 John Mallett \u00a0 : \u00a0 &#8220;Light-what is it?&#8221;, including a demonstration of the Double-Slit experiment<\/p>\n<p><strong>24th February 2014 \u00a0 : \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>AAS talk \u00a0 : \u00a0 Prof Mike Disney, Cardiff \u00a0 : \u00a0 Galaxies and common sense cosmology<\/p>\n<p><strong>17th March 2014 \u00a0 : \u00a0 <\/strong>Cosmology Study Group \u00a0 : \u00a0 Gavin Creyke \u00a0 : \u00a0 The Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Chile.<\/p>\n<p><strong>24th\u00a0March 2014 \u00a0 : \u00a0<\/strong> The\u00a0Abergavenny Astronomical Society AGM.<\/p>\n<p><strong>14th April 2014 \u00a0 : \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Cosmology Study Group \u00a0 : \u00a0 Robert Gladstone \u00a0 : \u00a0 Gravitational Waves<\/p>\n<p><strong>28th April 2014 \u00a0 : \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>AAS talk \u00a0 : \u00a0 Dr Rhodri Evans, Cardiff \u00a0 : \u00a0 Mt Wilson Observatory, USA<\/p>\n<p><strong>12th May 2014 \u00a0 : \u00a0 <\/strong>Cosmology Study Group \u00a0: \u00a0Kevin Houston \u00a0 : \u00a0 Spectra and Redshift<\/p>\n<p><strong>19th May 2014 \u00a0 : \u00a0 <\/strong>AAS talk\u00a0 : \u00a0Nick Busby \u00a0 : \u00a0 Imaging Solar system objects<\/p>\n<p><strong>16th June 2014 \u00a0 : <\/strong>\u00a0 Cosmology Study Group \u00a0: \u00a0Sid Fewster \u00a0 : \u00a0Dark Matter \u2013 an update:\u00a0 looking at developments since we last covered this topic in 2012<\/p>\n<p><strong>23rd June 2014 \u00a0 :\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0AAS talk\u00a0 :\u00a0 David Thomas FRAS &amp; 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