Director George Sibley Image credit: (c) This event is part of H200 – the Herschel Society’s celebration of William Herschel on the bicentenary of his death. William Herschel, a 42 year old musician and amateur astronomer, discovered the first “new” planet in history in 1781. His telescopes, observations and theories transformed what was the clockwork […]
Friday 23 Sep 2022 7.30 pm BRLSI Film showing – William Herschel and the Universe. The film director, George Sibley, from Florida, will introduce the film and answer questions afterwards. Friday 30 Sep 2022 7.30 pm St Swithin’s Church, The Paragon, Bath – Concert: A Celebration of William Herschel’s Music, Performed by The Bristol Ensemble […]
Katrin Raynor-Evans FRAS Image credit: (c) Katrin Raynor-Evans The first astronomy themed stamp dates to 1887 when Brazil issued a perforated stamp, buff and blue in colour, depicting the Southern Cross, an asterism seen in the Southern Hemisphere. Even throughout the 1800s, stamps were being printed with astronomical watermarks, such as suns and stars and […]
Dr Eloy de Lera AcedoUniversity of Cambridge. Image credit: (c) SKA Organisation/Swinburne Astronomy Productions In this talk Dr de Lera Acedo will discuss the science behind understanding how the first stars formed and ionised the intergalactic medium, ~ 300 Myears after the Big Bang, effectively transforming a mostly simple and empty Universe into the realm […]
Stephen CliffordSenior Research Scientist with the Planetary Science Institute in Flagstaff, Arizona. Image credit: (c) National Aeronautics and Space Administration Investigations by robotic spacecraft have provided persuasive evidence that early Mars was water-rich, hosting numerous lakes and possibly a northern ocean that covered as much as a third of the planet. This talk will review […]
In Memory of Michael Hoskin (1930-2021) Professor Woodruff T Sullivan (University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.)Sarah Waltz (University of the Pacific, Stockton, Cal.)John Mulligan (Rice University, Houston, Tex.)David Koerner (Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Ariz.)Clifford Cunningham (University of Southern Queensland, Austin, Tex.)Stephen Case (Olivet Nazarene University, Kankakee, Ill.) On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of William […]
The James Webb: The Next Generation of Hubble Telescope
Professor Martin WardEmeritus Temple Chevallier Professor of Astronomy at Durham University. Image credit: (c) National Aeronautics and Space Administration The Hubble Space Telescope has become an icon of Astronomy and it is now more than 30 years old. The new and much more powerful James Webb Space Telescope will soon extend our frontiers of observation. […]
A Tour of the Dynamic Universe
Dr Jeffrey ScargleNASA Ames Research Center, retired. Image credit: (c) National Aeronautics and Space Administration Casual observation of the night sky leads one to view the Universe as well-ordered and stable, changing only in minor ways and regularly, smoothly and predictably at that. Even intensive study with telescopes — starting with Galileo, and including William […]
Sponsored by the Herschel Society, the University of Bath and the Royal Astronomical Society Dr Jenny Carter, University of Leicester The video recording of this lecture is now freely available on the Bath University YouTube channel. Please go the following link to view it. https://bath.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cac0cc8e0532cc1f0d8b4f42b&id=f05887de26&e=ff5a10df75
Mars: Ancient rivers, lakes and oceans. But where is the water now?
Michael CarrLeader of the Imaging Team for NASA on the Viking Orbiter and subsequent missions. Image credit: (c) NASA/THEMIS The history of water on Mars has huge implications for the possibility of life on Mars and the future of life on Earth. This is the first of two lectures on this subject, with the second […]