Meetings

By tradition meetings are held on the second Wednesday of each month; the theme is normally a lecture or presentation on a particular astronomical topic given by guest speakers or society members.

Meetings of an informal nature, whereby members have the opportunity to show something about their interests - e.g. slides, videos, instruments, observations, etc. - occur two weeks following, on a Wednesday again.

FROM SEPTEMBER 2008 the venue will be The Quakers Meeting Room on Carlton Hill.  Doors open at 7.00pm and meeting ends between 9.30 and 10pm

2008 Formal Meetings

November 12th - "Supernovae"

• Dr Sam Falle, Leeds University

November 15th - Leeds AS Astromeet 2008

December 10th - President Evening - SPECIAL GUEST Gain Lee  (Huddersfield AS)

"Galaxy Quest - The real deepsky, distance based deep sky photography and observing"

2009 Formal Meetings

January 14th - Annual General Meeting

February 11th - "Cauldron in the Cosmos"

• Dr David Jenkins, University of York

February 25th - International Year of Astronomy Special

• "Build Your Own Horizon Declinometer with a Few fence Posts and Solve the
  Mystery of the Megalithic Yard" by Dr Bob Lomas (University of Bradford)

March 11th - "The LHC at CERN: A Peak Through the World's Most Powerful Microscope"

• Dr Joe Foster, University of Manchester

April 8th - "The AMASE Project"

• Dr Liane Benning, University of Leeds

May 13th - "Gravitational Lensing"

• Dr Meghan Gray, University of Nottingham

May 27th - International Year of Astronomy Special

• "Thomas Cooke, Telescope maker of York" by Martin Lunn, MBE

June 10th - "A Panoramic Moon"

• Peter Rea

June 24th - International Year of Astronomy Special

• "Looking at Comets through Wooden Telescopes -Dendrochronology and the
  Frightening Physics of Cometary Impacts" by Dr Bob Lomas (University of Bradford)

July 8th - "Light Pollution from an Astronomical Point of View"

• Dr Jurgen Schmoll, University of Durham

July 22nd - International Year of Astronomy Special

• "Apollo - A Moon Odyssey" by Andrew Lound (The Planetary Society)

August 12th - "Who was James Clerk Maxwell"

• John Singleton, Hebden Bridge AS

September 4/5/6 - Leeds AS 150th Birthday & BAA out of town meeting - Dynamic Stars

September 10th - "John Harrison's Clocks"

• Don Metcalfe

October 14th - "Eta Carina"

• Dr Julian Pittard, University of Leeds

November 7th - Leeds AS Astromeet 2009

November 11th - "Optical Searches for Extraterrestrial Intelligence"

• Dr Joachim Rose, University of Leeds

December 9th - President Evening