25 YEARS
1985 - 2010
Letchworth & District Astronomical Society
The LDAS Committee

Name Stan Waterman
 
Position Meetings Organiser
  I am interested in scientific advances in any field but particularly in evolutionary biology and cosmology. I'm particularly fascinated by the deep mystery of life and the universe and how they interact. Is life very common throughout the universe? Is life to the same design everywhere, i.e. did it have a common origin perhaps 10 billion years ago or is each stellar system different, or each galaxy or cluster of galaxies? And…the universe clearly has a big effect on living things; do living things have a significant effect on the universe?
Interests

CCD imaging
Relearning my way around the sky
Doing something a bit different in stellarphotometry.

Electronics, lasers, millimetric radarsystems, electromagnetics.
Classical music, modern art, poetry of TS Eliot
Equipment

Self-built observatory, 5" Celestron SCT, 12.5" Parkes Newtonian. In progress - 1 metre f/2 mirror for photometry
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