Past Events

Tonights talk will be given by Peter Goodhew. Peter is part of an international pro-am collaborative network dedicated to discovering and imaging planetary nebulae. He will talk about how planetary nebulae are being discovered, and will present the techniques used for imaging such challeging objects. There will be a break and an astronomy news update from Gordon Ewen.

Tonights talk will be given by Dr Emma Curtis Lake from the University of Hertfordshire.  JWST can peer further back in time than Hubble could see.  The results in the weeks after the first science data was made public were astounding, with galaxy candidates inhabiting the Universe around 200 million years after the Big Bang.  But the power of JWST is not just in the beautiful, sharp imaging.  It is, at its heart a spectroscopic mission.  With spectra we can…

Tonights talk will be given by Paul Fellows, Paul is the Chair of Cambridge Astronomical Association and gives weekly public sky tours/lecture presentations through the year with audiences of 200 plus. He built his first 8” Newtonian telescope at the age of 14 in 1975 as the project for “o-level” astronomy before coming to Cambridge as an undergraduate to study Natural Science and then completed his second degree in Computer Science. The story of collapsing stars is often said to…

Tonights talk will be given by Dave Eagles.     There will be a refreshment break followed by an astronomy news update from Gordon Ewen. Members £2, non members £3, and this includes refreshments.

Tonights talk will be given by Martin Lewis on 13 practical tips to help improve the quality of your planetary and lunar imaging. The tips are based on experience gleaned during more than 650 planetary imaging sessions that Martin has carried out, since he started imaging the planets with his 222mm Dobsonian telescopes in 2005. Martin as had a fascination for all things in the sky since a young boy. He is a professional engineer and part-time planetary imager, telescope…

Tonights talk will be given by our Honorary President, from the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge, Matt Bothwell on the subject of gravity waves. Matt will give his talk via Zoom.  A major announcement is due on 1st July regarding a new gravity wave discovery so Matt's talk is very timely. Matt is an excellent speaker and his talks are highly recommended. Astronomy is the oldest science. The first astronomers had to use their eyes to study the night sky:…

Nik Szymanek is an astrophotographer based in North Essex. He has been using CCD cameras to image the deep sky since they were first introduced in the early 1990’s from a back garden observatory. He has written a monthly ‘Masterclass’ astro-imaging column in Astronomy Now magazine for the last ten years as well as three books on astronomical imaging, the latest of which is ‘Shooting Stars II’.   In 2004 he travelled to Berkeley, California, to receive the Astronomical Society…