Category: monthly-meeting

On Tuesday 2nd March 2021, Wiltshire-AS will continue with online Zoom meeting format. Tonight, we have the superb Pete Williamson who will be walking us through the “moons in our solar system” with his talk tonight.

Details for the tonight’s Zoom meeting:

Time: Feb 3, 2021 07:45 PM London
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89631378335?pwd=Mi8wVUZsQ2g4MWsycGp3enlIWmZ3Zz09
Meeting ID: 896 3137 8335
Passcode: 294566

Thanks to Andy for his continued efforts in compiling the monthly newsletter, download link below

On Tuesday 2nd February 2021, Wiltshire-AS will continue with online Zoom meeting format. Tonight, we have the great Prof. David Southwood who will be giving a talk titled the “Moon and Mars the next Giant Leap”. David has had a distinguished career in the space sector, both in academia and held senior positions in the European Space Agency.

Details for the tonight’s Zoom meeting:

Time: Feb 2, 2021 07:45 PM London
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85100981193?pwd=ZGZtclRJZUZvM3VTamtnS3hxTWVhZz09
Meeting ID: 851 0098 1193
Passcode: 627310

On Tuesday 5th January 2021, Wiltshire-AS will continue with online Zoom meeting format. Tonight, unfortunately our scheduled speaker is unable to give their talk and our very own Andy Burns has stepped in and will give a talk on “Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet of Slough”, thanks Andy!

Details for the tonight’s Zoom meeting:

Time: Jan 5, 2021 07:45 PM London
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87548756423
Meeting ID: 875 4875 6423
Passcode: 115227

On Tuesday 1st December 2020, Wiltshire-AS will continue with online Zoom meeting format. Tonight, we are joined by Dr Lillan Hobs who will be giving us a Zoom talk an intriging topic “The Planetarium in the Bedroom” !

The joining details for tonight’s meeting using Zoom are as follows:
Meeting Time: 1st Nov 2020 19:45 GMT for an 20:00 start
URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86130423379? pwd=TXRiYk1CSkwzLzZkaFRXdHZuRi9rZ z09
Meeting ID: 861 3042 3379
Passcode: 580823

As always, Andy Burns has done a cracking job putting together the PDF Newsletter for this month, which is filled with info, see link below.

On Tuesday 3rd November 2020, Wiltshire-AS will continue with online Zoom meetings and we’re joined by long-time friend of the society, the incomparable and always inspired Andrew Loud. We are reliably informed by Andrew’s website that he will still appear in costume over Zoom, so certainly an event not to be missed.

This time, Andrew will be guiding us on an Odyssey to Jupiter.

The joining details for tonight’s meeting using Zoom are as follows:
Meeting Time: 3rd Nov 2020 19:45 BST
URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81041791431?pwd=U1Q5RjNXREtadUU5TWNoa0dDeHBQZz09
Meeting ID: 810 4179 1431
Passcode: 017221

Tonight, Tuesday 6th October 2020, Wiltshire-AS will continue with online Zoom meetings and we’re joined by society favourite Martin Griffiths, giving us a rundown on the Big Bang and everything after.

The joining details for tonight’s meeting using Zoom are as follows:
Meeting Time: 6tht Oct 2020 19:45 BST
URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88178237251?pwd=ckYzUDhNRjA0SnRUTUNZRVVqclZQZz09
Meeting ID: 872 7839 1344
Passcode: 025434

Andy Burns continues is stoic work putting together the monthly newsletters, the download link is below. Thanks Andy, we’d be lost without you!

…and we’re back with our new season from tonight, Tuesday 1st September 2020. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Wiltshire-AS will continue with online Zoom meetings until further notice. Thankfully, our speakers can accomodate doing online talks, many thanks to them.

Tonight, we’re joined by one of our own Nick Howes. Nick will be giving the talk entitled “How do you solve a problem like debris-Ahh?” so an important topic and Nick is a great speaker, so not to be missed.

The joining details for tonight’s meeting using Zoom are as follows:
Meeting Time: 1st Sep 2020 19:45 BST
URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88178237251?pwd=ckYzUDhNRjA0SnRUTUNZRVVqclZQZz09
Meeting ID: 881 7823 7251
Passcode: 011090

Andy Burns continues is stoic work putting together the monthly newsletters, the download link is below. Thanks Andy, we’d be lost without you!

Please check out the website page https://wasnet.org.uk/meetings/ for the latest (provisional) list of speakers at our monthly meetings for the 2020/2021 run.

Clear skies …

Apologies for the delay in publishing the newsletter in June. The society is now on it’s summer recess. We will be back up and running on Tuesday 1st September, further details will be annouced as to whether this will be a virtual or in-person meeting in Seend.

Following last week’s decision to postpone the May talk, Martin Griffiths has kindly offered to rescheule his talk “The Habitable Zone – What is it and How is it determined” for Tuesday 12th May 19:45. The meeting will be an online Zoom meeting, joining detail below, again with Andy Burns ably acting as the meeting “host”.

• Zoom Meeting​ URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88300167611?pwd=MjhockxaQjZPY2RkUHNoSFJTVVl0QT09​
• Meeting ID: 883 0016 7611​
• Password: 953129​
• Note: you may have to manually type in the password, rather than copy/paste it

If you’re new to Zoom, here’s an easy to follow tutorial on how to join a Zoom meeting: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362193-Joining-a-Meeting