Searching for the Sun’s sister stars

Our speaker this month will be Paul Fellows on “Searching for the Sun’s sister stars”. 

Most stars are born in clusters, leading to many binary and multiple star systems, yet our Sun roams the galaxy alone (apart from its family of attendant planets). Can we track down any of the Sun’s sister stars that might have been born with it way back in now some defunct star cluster?

Paul has spoken to LDAS on several occasions over the years and always give a really good talk, please read the quote from Astronomy magazine: “Paul Fellows is co-presenter of the public open evenings at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge. The standard of guest speakers at sea is high, and with a little research you can see them on land. Paul Fellows is an engaging speaker who knows his subject”.

On land Paul gives weekly public sky tours and 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 part of his O-level astronomy project before reading Natural Sciences at Cambridge, then completed a second degree in Computer Science at the Computer Lab at Cambridge.

£2 for Members and £3 for Guests.

This meeting will be held at Standalone Farm and will also be available over Zoom to Members. Please purchase your tickets in advance via MemberMojo to receive the Zoom link.

Guests can attend two physical meetings in the year before having to pay membership.

Members Talk (post break)

Grant will give an update covering all the latest tech and trends from his visit to NEAF this month. For those of you who don’t know the North East Astronomy Forum is the largest meeting of it’s type in the world and where most equipment manufacturers showcase their products for the first time.