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June 2020
International Sun Day – event postponed
We have decided to postpone the event proposed for June 21. The forecast for Sunday morning is for mostly cloud which isn't very helpful! Additionally, the sun is very quiet so there isn't much to see. We will attempt another go at this in the coming weeks when we get a good forecast. Hopefully, there may be a sunspot to see. Please monitor this website to keep up to date with our plans. There was a sunspot last week, here…
Find out more »Cosmic Dawn and Destiny
Tonight's talk will be given by Paul Fellows on ideas and theories of the origin of the Universe, and the evidence that backs up the modern view including a quick overview of Einstein’s theory of gravity (General Relativity) and what he himself described once as his “greatest blunder” and how now even that idea may turn out to have been right all along pointing the way to Dark Energy and the probable destiny of the whole Universe. There will be…
Find out more »July 2020
LDAS Monthly Meeting
Tonights talk will be communicated via the ZOOM app. The talk will be given by Dr Matt Bothwell from the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge University and will be on the subject of Exoplanets and the search for life in the universe. There will follow an astronomy news update from Gordon Ewen
Find out more »August 2020
LDAS Monthly Meeting – The Great Moon Hoax
Tonight we will have a talk, via Zoom, on the subject of 'The Great Moon Hoax' by Dr Steve Barrett of Liverpool University. The talk is considers the view that 'As we all know, the Apollo moon landings of the late 1960s and early 1970s were faked by NASA'. What is the 'evidence' that supports this claim and does it stand up to scientific scrutiny? There will be a break and an astronomy news update by Gordon Ewen. The event…
Find out more »September 2020
International Observe the Moon Event – Sat 26 September
Saturday is 'International Observe the Moon Day'. We are going to participate by holding a virtual observing evening to be broadcast on Facebook. Several club members will broadcast live video of the Moon, Jupiter and Saturn from their observatories, weather permitting of course. We may also be able to view some other objects such as the /ring Nebula and the Dumbbell Nebula. The event will commence at 1930, here is a link to the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/LDASociety
Find out more »LDAS Monthly Meeting – The Atacama Large Submillimeter Array, Supercomputer astronomy
Tonights talk will be given by Neill Phillipson on the subject 'The Atacama Large Submillimeter Array' which is located, as the name suggests, in the Atacama desert of Chile. The talk will cover how it works and what discoveries it is making. There will be a break and an astronomy news update by Gordon Ewen.
Find out more »October 2020
LDAS Monthly Meeting – Colin Stuart on ‘How to Weigh the Universe’
Colin Staurt on 'How to weigh the Universe' We’ve never left our solar system and yet we can weigh planets, stars and even galaxies stretching far across the universe. Find out how on this journey through the cosmos, taking in the latest work on exoplanets, gravitational waves, black holes, dark matter and more. It all hinges on whether the laws of physics are the same out in space as they are here on Earth. Most astronomers believe they are, but…
Find out more »November 2020
LDAS – All day astronomy!
Weather permitting we are planning to observe throughout the day and night on November 21.
Find out more »LDAS Monthly Meeting – Gravitational wave astronomy reveals fatal end of a wild cosmic dance.
Tonights talk will be given, via Zoom, by Dr Ulrich Kolb, who says . "Since the Nobel prize winning first detection of gravitational waves emitted by merging black holes in 2015, the list of confirmed gravitational wave events from compact binary mergers has been growing steadily. A complementing rapid-response campaign by telescope facilities around the globe is searching for electromagnetic counterparts of these gravitational wave sources. I will review the state of play and report on some of my experience…
Find out more »December 2020
LDAS AGM, and Christmas Talk by Paul Money.
Tonight we will be having our AGM and it will be done using Zoom. It is planned to be short and to the point and we will then have a talk by Paul l Money. Paul Money’s Top 10 Images of the Universe Paul is a well known to the society having talked to us numerous times over the last 10 years. He is well known for his enthusiastic and decibel deliveries backed up with a wealth of interesting…
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