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Tag Archives: "stargazing"

Oct 14

SWHAS Monthly Meeting Oct. 2020

Tags: astronomy, astrophotography, observatory, stargazing, telescopes Posted by: Sean Meehan Comments:0

Friday  30 October 2020 at 20:00 – 21:30 GMT “A VIRTUAL TOUR OF MY HOME OBSERVATORY” – IAIN MELVILLE. Iain will take us on a tour of his observatory, including […]

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Apr 3

An Introduction to Astrophotography – Stephen Heliczer / Martin Weston

Tags: astronomy, astrophotography, stargazing, telescopes Posted by: Andrew Comments:0

*** PLEASE NOTE : This will now be an online event. Regrettably all events at the RMS are still suspended until further notice. *** *** Members will receive an email […]

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Feb 26

‘Your Universe’ outreach festival of Astronomy at UCL

Tags: astronomy, stargazing, telescopes Posted by: Andrew Lane Comments:0

Celebrating 30 years of the Hubble Space Telescope. UCL’s Your Universe outreach festival of Astronomy takes place on 6th (schools only) and 7th March (public). Meet scientists, try out telescopes […]

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Feb 11

Herschel’s Planet – Mike Foulkes

Tags: astronomy, stargazing, telescopes Posted by: Andrew Lane Comments:0

The planet Uranus was discovered by William Herschel on 13 March 1781- the first planet to be discovered since ancient times. This talk will provide a top level overview of […]

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Jan 30

Getting light from the darkness – the story of the biggest telescopes – Peter Grimley

Tags: astronomy, stargazing, telescopes Posted by: Andrew Lalchan Comments:0

When it comes to telescopes, bigger has (almost) always been better. All through history, astronomers have realized that gathering more light meant seeing more and more interesting things. That is […]

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