APRIL MEETING: The next meeting of CAS will be at 1930 hours on Wednesday, 28th April 2021. As usual (nowadays) the meeting will be held on Zoom.

The speaker is Professor Ian Morison, who has served as Emeritus Professor of  Astronomy (Gresham College) and who continues to work at Jodrell Bank.  His talk will be entitled "Astrophotography with a DSLR or mirrorless camera". Professor Morison has wide experience in observational astronomy and he will show that excellent photographic results do not require you to be situated at the top of a mountain in Chile nor plugged into Hubble !

If you would like to attend the meeting please send an e-mail to the society's Chair david.tillotson@btinternet.com and he will forward an invitation/link shortly before the meeting. Note that all meetings are for members who have now paid their membership fees.

 March Meeting is 31st March at 19:30 hours

Clusters of Galaxies - Light in the Dark Spaces

Prof. Chris Collins

Professor of Cosmology within the Astrophysics Research Institute (ARI) of Liverpool John Moores University. 

My research covers topics in observational cosmology focussing on studies of the evolution of galaxies and clusters of galaxies over cosmic time and their large-scale distribution in space. These interests probe theories of how galaxies develop from seed density perturbations in the very early Universe and also provide constraints on cosmological parameters such as the amount of dark matter and dark energy. 

If you would like to attend the meeting, please send me an e-mail the Chair at this address david.tillotson@btinternet.com  he will then forward to you the "official invitation" and Zoom link in due course.

NOVEMBER MEETING

Our November meeting is scheduled for 1930 hours on Wednesday, 25th November 2020.  As is usual these days, the meeting will be held via Zoom.

We will be addressed by Thomas Harvey of Manchester University on the subject of  "The lost meteorites of Antarctica".  This should be a very interesting talk on the search for these visitors from outer space and what they can teach us about the history of the Solar System.

If you would like to attend the meeting, please send me an e-mail at this address 

david.tillotson@btinternet.com  I will then forward to you the "official invitation" in due course.

October's Virtual 

CAS Meeting

CAS Members: David Tillotson is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Simon Ebo is a PhD student at UCLAN and will be talking to us about his work studying "Exoplanets".

Tom Rose is a PhD student at Durham University and he will be talking to us about his work studying "Supermassive Black Hole Eclipses"

They are both past members of CAS, and it will be good to hear news from "our alumni".

Time: Oct 28, 2020 at 07:30 PM. Register to attend by sending an email to 

david.tillotson@btinternet.com 

 September Meeting 

Dr. Steve Barrett from Liverpool University has kindly agreed to present a ZOOM lecture. The Burley Hall is still closed to meetings the size of ours.

Dr Barrett last spoke to us in February of this year on the legacy of the Hubble Space Telescope. As Christmas is now on the horizon he will talk on 'The Star of Bethlehem' on Wednesday the 30^th. September, starting at 19:30 Hrs.

As usual David Tillotson will receive requests (david.tillotson@btinternet.com) for an invitation to be included in the audience of that meeting.

Also, October 28^th. Is scheduled as 'Members night', so please, if you have anything to share with the rest of us please get in touch. We can help with the complications of 'screen sharing'. It is highly probable the Hall will still be closed to a meeting of the numbers we usually meet in.