Wiltshire Astronomical Society Posts

Hi, just a quick reminder of our upcoming online (zoom) meeting tonight Tuesday 1st March 2022. We are not meeting in person at the Hall in Seend for the time being.

The Zoom Details are:
URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89151504770?pwd=VVFUZU1IUXdDcHl3V293Z1o1alpBdz09
Meeting ID: 891 5150 4770 
Passcode: 496458

For our speaker, we welcome back long time Wiltshire AS regular, Martin Griffiths. Martin’s talk is “Dark Energy and Dark Matter”.

Thanks to Chris Brooks for organising/running a successful observing session on Friday 26 Feb where we had 12 newcomers who I think enjoyed the session and looking through a telescope for the first time.

Thanks to Andy Burns for his steadfast work with March newsletter:

Hi, just a quick reminder of our upcoming online (zoom) meeting on Tuesday 1st February 2022. We are not meeting in person at the Hall in Seend for the time being.

The Zoom Details are:
URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85920084062?pwd=UTZRdnd5RnVtaG12dGVGeDdXQTE2QT09
Meeting ID: 859 2008 4062
Passcode: 540970

At February’s meeting, we welcome back friend of the society, Professor David Southwood, who will give the talk “Local puzzles in Cosmic Magnetism”.

UPDATE: please find below link to the February 2022 newsletter, kindly put together by Andy.

Thanks

Hi, just a quick reminder of our upcoming online (zoom) meeting on Tuesday 7th December 2021.

The meeting details are as follows:
Time: 19:45 GMT 7 Dec 2021
URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88631333751?pwd=aWt1cGJBV3ovbWlPaFdoOGptU3RoQT09
Meeting ID: 886 3133 3751
Passcode: 527500

Our familiar speaker for the meeting is Paul Money (astrospace.co.uk) who is talking on “Why we don’t have Green Stars”.

**UPDATED 2021-12-07**
Thanks to Andy once again for putting together the newsletter, please download via the link below.

Hi, just a quick reminder that, tonight Tuesday 9th November, we have scheduled our revised November meeting held online only over Zoom. Details below:

Time: Nov 9, 2021 19:45 GMT
URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89401275309?pwd=dlFoQUY1eXBRNEdObFAwZXBobjlDZz09&fbclid=IwAR0OX9B1qucB8keYiPV8PDPrclzElAR72jdSRWlXaJMtOZ49FJYC64CE8Ic
Meeting ID: 894 0127 5309
Passcode: 296206

Our speaker is Katrin Raynor-Evans who will be talking about “Exploring Astronomy through Philately” , see a related article from Katrin here.

Also, here’s our November Newsletter, thanks again Andy

Unfortunately, Katrin Raynor Evans’ talk due to be held over Zoom tonight has had to be postponed due to a very recent bereavement. However, Katrin has very kindly offered to give the talk NEXT Tuesday 9th November via Zoom again.

Andy will open the Zoom call (details provided on the previous post) tonight just to inform anyone that has not received the message.

Andy has again dutifully put together this month’s newsletter, see link below.

The society committee has taken the decison to move back to online only meetings for the time being. Our next meeting is Nov 2nd 2021 and will be held via the Zoom service. This has been primarily driven by the high covid case levels in the region and the need for extra villigence. Also we saw low attendance for the in person meetings so far, whereas our online meetings were up to 30 members plus, many scattered across different countries.

UPDATE 2021-11-01. Zoom Details for Tuesday’s Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89778910858?pwd=QVNNbW14UkhUNXh2cmthRm9lNHY4QT09
Meeting ID: 897 7891 0858
Passcode: 833830

Tonight, Tuesday 5th October 2021 will be our second in-person meeting back at the hall in Seend, please see our meetings page for further details.

For our October meeting tonight, we will be joined by Colin Stuart who will giving us a summary of “Time in Einstein’s Universe”.

We successfully held the September meeting at the hall which ran smoothly with the exception of issues with internet connectivity. This prevented us running a simultaneous zoom meeting. Therefore, until we can resolve the internet connection issue, we will unfortunately not be able to run a zoom meeting.

Finally, we are still hopeful that a volunteer can be found to take on the small requirement of organising the teas and coffees (and busicuits of course) at the monthly meeting. If you are not currently volunteering for the society already, this would be a great help.

The society is delighted to confirm that we will be meeting in person at our first meeting of the new season, on this coming Tuesday 7th September 2021. This is our first meeting since the pandemic began so it will be a big step forward. Hand sanitiser will be available by the door.

Meeting Details:

• The meeting location is unchanged at Lye Pavilion, Rusty Lane, Seend, see our meetings page for further details, 19:30 for 20:00 speaker start. The speaker this month will be Speaker will be Prof Mike Edmunds, The Clockwork Universe. We will also hold our AGM where, amongst other important business, there is a need for a volunteer to take on the task of organising the teas and coffees (and busicuits of course) at the monthly meeting.
• For those that will not be attending in person, Andy will attempt a Zoom meeting in order for those to join remotely, although this will be a trial to see how the WiFi network performs, details below:

Zoom details for the meeting:

• Time: Sep 7, 2021 07:45 PM London 
• Meeting Join URL https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84046617944?pwd=MkxpVEtETHNKL2o5Zm9sRU5BMmtPUT09
• Meeting ID: 840 4661 7944
• Passcode: 311036

Subscriptions:

This the new season is starting, the society membership renewal is upon too. The new subscription year runs from 01 Sep 2021 to 31 Aug 2022.

As a reminder, we only implemented our online membership system with membermojo ~7 months ago, but fees collected then were for the existing 2020-2021 season which ran from 01 Sep 2020 to 31 Aug 2021.

Renewal for the new season can all be done via the self-service membermojo portal, available via the URL https://wasnet.org/membership/. You’ll need the email address that you used previously to access your account and follow instructions for “Renew”. If you are not yet a member, new memberships can also be created via the Membermojo portal too. Contact information for any queries is also available here https://wasnet.org/membership/. You can also pay in person on 7th September 2021.

Newsletter

Again, thanks to Andy for putting together this months newsletter, download link below: