Dr Stephen Case Friday 7th October 2025 7.30 pm in the BRLSI, Bath, and on Zoom, note that the lecture will be given remotely from the U.S. For those at the BRSLI Dr Case will be “beamed in” to the big screen. The image is of Dr Stephen Case’s book of the same title. Apart […]
The 2025 Caroline Herschel Prize Lecture at the University of Bath (Time and location to be announced) Dr Victoria Fawcett, University of Newcastle Description… Dr Victoria Fawcett, University of Newcastle Dr Fawcett is a Research Associate at Newcastle University. She works on quasars and how they influence their host galaxies. She has demonstrated excellence in […]
Anthony Symes, Herschel Society Friday 5th September 2025 7.30 pm in the BRLSI, Bath, and on Zoom The image is a portrait, supposedly be of Thomas Harriot, which is at Trinity College, Oxford. Thomas Harriot was not only the first in England to be documented as pointing a telescope at the night sky and drawing […]
JWST’s transformational observations of Uranus and Neptune Professor Tom Stallard, Northumbria University (speaking remotely from Northumberland) The image is the first Neptune auroral observation since Voyager, and the starting point for our observations. At the left, an enhanced-color image of Neptune from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. At the right, that image is combined with data […]
Dr Claire Davies, University of Exeter Friday 5th September 2025 7.30 pm in the BRLSI, Bath, and on Zoom The image shows a star surrounded by a protoplanetary disk. Accredited to NASA. The field of exoplanet detection and characterisation has bloomed over the past couple of decades and a wide variety of systems have been […]
Dr Emma Perkins This Wikimedia image is of a mural showing Tycho Brahe taking celestial measurements in a Quadrant, and is from the Danish Royal Library. From his island observatory funded by the Danish king, astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546–1601) conducted a systematic programme of observation that would lay the foundations for significant astronomical innovations of […]
The Davy lecture (The Royal Society of Chemistry) Professor Mike G. Edmunds Friday 2nd May 2025 7.30 pm in the BRLSI, Bath, and on Zoom The infrared image of the Eagle Nebula was obtained using JWST. Stars are born inside the dense, blue-gray “pillars of creation” – vast clouds of dense interstellar gas and dust. […]
Professor Alan Bassindale Friday11th April2025 7.30 pm in the BRLSI, Bath, and on Zoom The image is the flea from Micrographia by Robert Hooke Robert Hooke FRS, 1635-1703, was the first professional scientist and he played a key role in developing contemporary experimental science. He was an outstanding scientist, engineer, astronomer (laying foundations for William […]
The William Herschel Lecture Dr Robert Fosbury Friday 14th March 2025 7.30 pm in the BRLSI, Bath, and on Zoom Life on planet Earth has evolved for billions of years in the presence of light from the Sun. Over recent decades, radical changes have taken place in the lighting of the built environment which have, […]
Penllergare Equatorial Observatory Stuart Rice, General Manager, The Penllergare Trust Tuesday 11th February 2025 7.30 pm in the BRLSI, Bath, and on Zoom The image is a view of the observatory © Stuart Rice John Dillwyn Llewelyn presented his daughter, Thereza, with an Observatory on her 16th birthday, helping spark a family interest in astronomy […]