Thursday, 18 August 2022

 NOTICE

This website / blog for Chester Astronomical Society

is now mothballed. 

It will stay online to serve as an archive for members and other researchers.

As of Spring 2022 the new

Chester Astronomical website is here:

https://www.chesterastronomicalsociety.co.uk








Sunday, 12 September 2021

 

Members' Talk 29th September 2021

How to Photograph a Black Hole /

Pro Derek Ward-Thompson, UCLAN

UCLan‘s Professor Derek Ward-Thompson is one of the 347 world-leading scientists who formed the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration. The scientists will share the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, which is worth three million dollars.  Professor Ward-Thompson said: “This is a great honour for the team to receive this award. It is a truly international collaboration and it was a remarkable achievement. The Breakthrough Trust are to be thanked for their generous acknowledgment.”


To join this online zoom talk, please email the chairman at: david.tillotson@btinternet.com 

Wednesday, 28 July 2021

 CAS July Meeting


 

The Great Moon Hoax 
Dr Steve Barrett of Liverpool University


This promises to be an interesting discussion of a leading conspiracy theory! Or should that be a hypothesis? LOL!

An online zoom talk for members, please let the chair know that you will attend and he will forward the zoom link: david.tillotson@btinternet.com

Monday, 7 June 2021

 

Lecture - June 30th 

The Stonyhurst College expedition to the total solar eclipse of 1914  

Mr Graham McLoughlin, Preston AS

Abstract

The total solar eclipse of 1914 August 21 had the misfortune of taking place at the beginning of World War I. Its central line crossed an area of eastern Europe that had been thrown into conflict only weeks earlier when Germany declared war against Russia on August 1....  This lecture promises to be a fascinating insight into the struggle of scientists to gather information against the background of a world war was erupting.

An online zoom talk for members, please let the chair know that you will attend and he will forward the zoom link: david.tillotson@btinternet.com

Monday, 10 May 2021

 May 2021


Our Neighbour, the Moon 


Martin Lunn, FRAS 

Earby Astronomical Society 


This will be a Zoom lecture for members only, delivered at 7:30 pm. For the link to join this session, please email the chair, David Tillotson at david.tillotson@btinternet.com 


Photograph by Stephen Bell