AstroBASICS Programme

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AstroBASICS Section

All meetings start at 7.30pm.

Subsidised by the Reading Astronomical Society and open and free to the public.

PLEASE NOTE: practical observing is very limited at the hall but sufficient to demonstrate telescopes and look at the brighter objects in the sky.

Programme for Sep 2011 – June 2012

All monthly meetings this year are the 4th Friday, mostly 6 days after the main meeting.

The programme is always provisional so if anyone who can attend wants to suggest anything astronomical for inclusion in the programme we will be happy to consider it.

23 Sep. 2011
Starting out in astronomy. Basic observing techniques and how to report phenomena in the sky.

28 Oct. 2011
A bit of ancient history and an explanation of the stellar magnitude system. How we try to calculate the distance of a star.
25 Nov. 2011
Alun Halsey and Peter Tickner are the experts tonight.
Making great images from a light polluted town.
December: No meeting this month
The hall has commitments to other users. Regular ‘BASICS’ members are encouraged to attend the Christmas social meeting on 10th Dec.
27 Jan. 2012
Gerry is away on a trip so we have a real scientist to take his place: Patrick Josephs-Franks has kindly offered to step in.
The Sun! Where do stars get all that energy.
24 Feb. 2012
The Milky Way. Sky lore. Our place in it.
MARCH PUBLIC OBSERVING WEEKEND
and BSA EXHIBITION
See the details on the home page for events at the Museum of English Rural Life.
23 Mar. 2012
Comets. And their debris. On the very night that intense meteor storms were helping some observers to understand the action of comets and dust in interplanetary space the sight of the meteors themselves made the general population sink to its knees and pray!
27 Apr. 2012
Mars and the ‘possibly nutty’ Professor Lowell. Within the lifetiles of current RAS members the possibility that an ancient civilization had lived on Mars had not been discounted. Despite the disappointment Mars is our most observed and most tantalising neighbour. Learn all the ‘basics’.
25 May. 2012
Earth-Moon the nearest double planet.
22 June 2012
Summer satellites; when you relax outside in the evening, look up. As twilight deepens you will be amazed at what you can see passing overhead.

Programme for Sep 2012 – June 2013

Monthly BASICS meetings this year are monthly on the Friday 6 days after the main meeting.

21 Sep. 2012
Starting out in astronomy. Some real basics.

26 Oct. 2012
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23 Nov. 2012
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14 Dec 2012
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25 Jan. 2013
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22 Feb. 2013
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MARCH PUBLIC OBSERVING WEEKEND
and BSA EXHIBITION
See the details on the home page for events at the Museum of English Rural Life which we hope to repeat in 2013.
23 Mar. 2013
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27 Apr. 2013
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24 May 2013
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21 June 2013
Summer satellites; when you relax outside in the evening, look up. As twilight deepens you will be amazed at what you can see passing overhead.

The programme is always provisional so if anyone who can attend wants to suggest anything astronomical for inclusion in the programme we will be happy to consider it.
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