Wiltshire Astronomical Society Posts

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

Due to the continuing COVID19 lockdown, our May meeting tonight, Tuesday 5th May 2020, will be held “online” only, using the software Zoom. Our speaker, long-time friend of the society Martin Griffiths, is kindly accomodating us and will give his talk “The Habitable Zone – What is it and How is it determined” over zoom remotely.

Andy Burns has successfully wrestled the technology to the ground and will “host” the Zoom meeting which he aims to start at 19:45. The online meeting details are as follows:

• Meeting URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82646358305?pwd=aWJUcTBkdmZsMGx2QUVwc2pxaUpCZz09
• Meeting ID: 826 4635 8305​
• Password: 666948​

The society will post further information here (as well as the usual email and facebook channels) about the June meeting when the situation becomes clearer.

Tonight, Tuesday 3rd March 2020, we will be welcoming astrophotograher Dr Lilian Hobbs who will be talking to us about the Armchair Messier Marathon, as is the season.

This month’s newsletter, penned by Andy Burns (thanks Andy!), highlights the issue of the new low earth orbit mega-constellations that are causing concern for ground based astronomers, amongst other local updates and information.

Andy also led the society’s outreach efforts with visits to local schools and Scout groups, thanks again.

Also, check out the Group photo taken by Peter at the last meeting.

Tonight, Tuesday 4th February 2020, we’ll be entertained by Jon Gale, as he walks us through observing the mighty Herschel 400.

This month’s newsletter, as always, has been ably complied by Andy Burns (many thanks Andy!) and can be downloaded the link below. Special thanks to Andy Burns and fellow volunteers for the schools outreach events that happened this month.