{"id":4451,"date":"2026-02-15T23:19:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/?p=4451"},"modified":"2026-02-15T23:19:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:19:42","slug":"next-meeting-monday-23rd-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/?p=4451","title":{"rendered":"Next Meeting\u00a0 : \u00a0Monday 23rd February"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The next meeting will be a practical demonstration, led by Nick, looking at &#8220;Developments in optical glasses for modern telescopes&#8221;.&nbsp; It\u2019s sure to be both informative and entertaining.<br>The usual place &amp; time; The upper room at the Hen &amp; Chickens, Abergavenny at 7:30 pm.<br>I look forward to meeting up, all are welcome.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A reasonable number of people made it to the January meeting, our first AGM for some 6 years, despite the miserable weather. The draft minutes have been put on the website \u201cDownload\u201d page, <a href=\"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/?download=4448&amp;tmstv=1771196405\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also had time for a general chat about the effect that the vastly increasing number of low earth orbit satellites (LEOs), eg Starlink etc, may have on observational astronomy.&nbsp; The overall feeling was that although there is an issue for professional astronomy the impact on amateur observation is likely to be minor.&nbsp; I guess time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next meeting will be a practical demonstration, led by Nick, looking at &#8220;Developments in optical glasses for modern telescopes&#8221;.&nbsp; It\u2019s sure to be both informative and entertaining.The usual place &amp; time; The upper room at the Hen &amp; Chickens, Abergavenny at 7:30 pm.I look forward to meeting up, all are welcome.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A reasonable number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mtg","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4452,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions\/4452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}