Reviews

The society holds monthly lectures by both professional and amateur speakers. Reviews of the meetings held to date for 2000 can be seen below, along with an occasional review of other lectures & events that may be of interest but which were not organised by the LDAS. For a schedule of future events follow the link.

Jan 2000	John Smith	How to observe the Sun
Feb 2000	Mark Hurn	Origins of the Zodiac
Mar 2000	Barrie Jones	Understanding The Big Bang
Apr 2000	Mike Legget	History of the Constellations
May 2000	Gerry Workman	Galileo to Jupiter
Jun 2000	Bob Forrest	The Caldwell Objects
Jul 2000	Bob Turner	The Hydrogen Alpha Sun
Aug 2000	Martin Heath	Life Outside Earth
Sep 2000	Dave Eagle	Basic Observing
Oct 2000	Dr Matthew Bate	The Formation of Stars and Planets

Other Reviews

The following are other reviews of events that were not organised by the society but which may be of interest.

Oct 2000	FAS 2000	FAS Conference September 2000
Nov 2000	Patrick Moore	Into Space

Holidays

A number of our LDAS members have been on astronomical holidays, both singularly, and as a group. We are more than happy to include here details of those that we would go on again!

Algarve - Rather than a dry description - I will let you read my extract from our April 1996 Newsletter, the only update to which is that we have now been back - again!

Another Astronomy holiday to the Algarve

"What another?" I hear you say! Yes. This now makes two visits to The Algarve that Colin and I have been on so I finally believe I have gained enough knowledge to report back to the membership on the advantages (and disadvantages) of taking an Astronomy Holiday in Portugal.