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27 February 2023
Construction Of A 150 mm Reflector And Reminiscences Of IDAS
Still      Video
John Barbrook
23 January 2023
Aurora Observations From Iceland
Mike Whybray
13 December 2021
The Christmas Star
Dr Paul Whiting, FRAS
26 July 2021
Neutral Hydrogen (HI) Radio Reception, with live demonstration
Dr Paul Whiting, FRAS
08 March 2021
The Milankovitch Cycle
Pete Richards
25 January 2021
Multi-Messenger Astronomy
Dr Paul Whiting, FRAS
20 November 2020
Astrophotography
Martin Richmond-Hardy
27 July 2020
Radar Astronomy
Dr Paul Whiting, FRAS
24 February 2020
3000 Years Of Eclipses Visible From Orwell Park
Dr Paul Whiting, FRAS
25 November 2019
The Christmas Star
Dr Paul Whiting, FRAS
28 October 2019
Observing Transits Of Mercury
Bill Barton, FRAS
15 October 2019
Comet Borisov
Bill Barton, FRAS
22 July 2019
Siding Springs & Parkes Observatories
Martin Richmond-Hardy
06 May 2019
Fireballs and How to Catch Them
Alan Smith & James Appleton
14 January 2019
Practical Astro-imaging Workshop
Andy Gibbs
24 September 2018
The Summer Sky from The Canaries and Namibia
Nigel Evans
23 July 2018
Basic Astrophotography
Andy Gibbs
21 May 2018
Atmospheric Effects
Olaf Kirchner
12 March 2018
The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
Alex Sinclair
15 January 2018
Telescope Eyepieces
Mike Whybray
27 November 2017
Observing Reports of the Solar Total Eclipse of 21 August 2017
Paul Whiting, FRAS, Nigel Evans & Pete Richards
26 June 2017
Checking and Adjusting Binocular Alignment (re-run of workshop held 11 March 2015)
Mike Whybray
24 April 2017
Cold Dark Matter vs MOND: Competing Paradigms
Alex Sinclair
16 January 2017
Simple Imaging of the Milky Way and Supermoons With a DSLR
David Murton
28 November 2016
A Guide to OASI's Atik Infinity Camera
Andy Gibbs
31 October 2016
Assembly and Use of the Millennium Telescope
Mike Whybray & David Murton
12 September 2016
Binocular Observing
Bill Barton, FRAS
08 August 2016
The Rosetta Mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
Paul Whiting, FRAS
09 June 2016
Amateur Construction of Rockets
Rod Stevenson, Treasurer of East Anglian Rocketry Society
25 April 2016
Astrophotography With a DSLR
Handout
Competition
David Murton & Mike O'Mahony
28 March 2016
Observing Reports of the Solar Total Eclipse of 09 March 2016
Paul Whiting, FRAS & Nigel Evans
14 March 2016
Gravity Waves and Black Holes
Mike Whybray
11 January 2016
New Horizons of Pluto
Paul Whiting, FRAS
26 October 2015
CERN: Accelerating Science
Charlie Green
28 September 2015
Building A Home Observatory
David Murton
01 April 2015
Observations of the Solar Eclipse of 20 March 2015
Mike Whybray, Paul Whiting, FRAS & Bill Barton, FRAS
11 March 2015
Checking and Adjusting Binocular Alignment
Mike Whybray & Ray Larsen
04 March 2015
A Comet's Tale
Neil Norman
28 January 2015
The Rosetta Mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Mike Whybray
10 December 2014
Rømer Revisited Reprised
James Appleton
22 October 2014
Astronomical Software and Android Applications
David Murton
12 March 2014
Exo-planets
Paul Whiting, FRAS
29 January 2014
The Equation of Time
Joe Startin & Matthew Robertson
11 December 2013
Astrophotography With a Digital Camera
David Murton & Mike O'Mahony
06 November 2013
Ole Rømer and Estimation of the Speed of Light
James Appleton, Martin Cook & Alan Smith
09 October 2013
Comets
Paul Whiting, FRAS
03 April 2013
Stars and Their Colours
Michael O'Mahony
06 March 2013
The Sun
Paul Whiting & Bill Barton
06 February 2013
Setting Circles
Paddy O'Sullivan
12 December 2012
One small step for [a] man... The Apollo Moon Landings: NASA 16 mm Vintage Film Night
Mike Whybray
07 November 2012
Special Relativity
David Gibson
10 October 2012
Aurorae
Paul Whiting
11 April 2012
Constructing Dobsonian Telescopes and Equatorial Platforms
John Wainwright & Martin Cook
14 March 2012
All About Waves
Michael O'Mahony
01 February 2012
Tides

Handout 1: Tides - What's Really Going On?

Handout 2: Tides - Earth, Moon, Planets and Beyond

Joe Startin
11 January 2012
Measuring the Speed Of Light, II
Mike Whybray
14 December 2011
Quiz Night
Paul Whiting, FRAS
02 November 2011
Astronomical Imaging
Ben Jarvis
05 October 2011
A Little Mathematical Astronomy
Paul Whiting, FRAS
09 March 2011
Asteroids
James Appleton
02 February 2011
Measuring the Speed of Light, I
Mike Whybray
12 January 2011
Introduction to Using the Tomline Refractor
Martin Cook
01 December 2010
Let the Weather Decide!
Mike Whybray
10 November 2010
Choosing and Using a Telescope
Mike Whybray & John Wainwright
13 October 2010
Millennium Telescope Observing Session
Neil Morley
07 April 2010
Where did the Universe Come From?
Mike Whybray
03 March 2010
Sir Patrick Moore's House
Paul Whiting, FRAS
10 February 2010
The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
Paddy O'Sullivan
02 December 2009
Telescope Collimation
Mike Whybray
11 November 2009
Millennium Telescope Observing Night
Mike Whybray & Neil Morley
07 October 2009
One small step for [a] man... The Apollo Moon Landings: NASA 16 mm Vintage Film Night
Mike Whybray
08 April 2009
Beginners' Night Part II
Mike Whybray
11 March 2009
Introduction to Radio Astronomy
Dr Laurence Newell, Co-ordinator of BAA Radio Astronomy Group
04 February 2009
Beginners' Night Part I and Telescopes 101
Mike Whybray & Paul Whiting, FRAS
14 January 2009
One small step for [a] man... The Apollo Moon Landings: NASA 16 mm Vintage Film Night
Mike Whybray
03 December 2008
Sperm Whales, Candles and Planet Venus (John Isaac Plummer's 1876 determination of the brightness of Venus.)
James Appleton
08 October 2008
History of the Telescope
Paul Whiting, FRAS
02 April 2008
Telescope Collimation for Dummies
Paddy O'Sullivan
05 March 2008
1. Observing the Messier Objects.

2. Millennium Telescope Observing Night.

1. Steve Bentley

2. Neil Morley

06 February 2008
The Lifecycle of a Star
Paul Whiting, FRAS
09 January 2008
The Leviathan of Parsonstown
Ken Goward, FRAS
05 December 2007
Quiz Night
Paul Whiting, FRAS
07 November 2007
Millennium Telescope Observing Night
Neil Morley
03 October 2007
One small step for [a] man... The Apollo Moon Landings: NASA 16 mm Vintage Film Night
Mike Whybray
12 April 2006
Origin of the Solar System
Paddy O'Sullivan
22 March 2006
Sights and Sounds of the Aurora
Paul Whiting, FRAS
08 February 2006
Elementary Image Processing
Nigel Stubbington
07 December 2005
Filters for Astronomy
Pete Richards
09 November 2005
Design, Construction and Use of the OASI 48 cm Millennium Telescope
Neil Morley, Paddy O'Sullivan, Martin Cook, Garry Sullivan & Mike Harlow
12 October 2005
Building and Equipping a Back-Garden Observatory
Dave Standley
04 May 2005
Debris of the Solar System
Paul Whiting, FRAS
06 April 2005
Planetary Atmospheres
Dave McCracken
02 March 2005
Trigonometry and Spherical Triangles
Bill Barton
02 February 2005
Constellation Close-Up: Auriga
James Appleton
05 January 2005
Making Friends With the Meade ETX-125
Gerry Pilling
01 December 2004
The Past Explains the Present
Kenneth Goward, FRAS
03 November 2004
Light
Paddy O'Sullivan
06 October 2004
Double Stars
Pete Richards
05 May 2004
The Radio Universe: a Look at Radio Astronomy
Paul Whiting, FRAS
07 April 2004
Rainbows and Other Natural Wonders
Bill Barton
03 March 2004
Astronomy - Some Basic Concepts
Pete Richards
04 February 2004
Constellation Close-Up: Gemini
James Appleton
03 December 2003
Cosmology - Some Thoughts
St John Robinson
05 November 2003
Comets - Visitors From Outer Space
Garry Coleman
01 October 2003
Talking About Telescopes
Ted Sampson
07 May 2003
Radio Propagation
Paul Whiting
02 April 2003
Comets, Asteroids and Impacts
Richard Lyzinski
05 March 2003
Hertsprung-Russell Star Sequences
Paddy O'Sullivan
05 February 2003
Transit Telescopes
Bill Barton
08 January 2003
Collimation of Telescope Optics
St John Robinson
04 December 2002
Inside the Sun
Mike Whybray
13 November 2002
Constellation Close-Up: Taurus
James Appleton
02 October 2002
Gravity, the Fundamental Force
Pete Richards
04 September 2002
The ETX-125 and Other Telescopes
Ted Sampson
01 May 2002
More Computer Packages for Astronomy
Paddy O'Sullivan
03 April 2002
Time in Astronomy
Ted Sampson
06 March 2002
Aurorae
Pete Richards
06 February 2002
The Hubble Space Telescope
Paul Whiting
09 January 2002
Yet More Astrophotography
Neil Morley, David Payne, Mike Whybray
05 December 2001
Variable Stars
Mike Nicholls
07 November 2001
Constellation Close-Up: Orion
Les Lamb & James Appleton
03 October 2001
Telescopes and Observing
Ted Sampson
09 May 2001
The Sun
Garry Coleman
11 April 2001
Computer Packages for Astronomy
Paddy O'Sullivan
14 March 2001
Constellation Close-Up: Leo
James Appleton & Les Lamb
14 February 2001
The Eye and Observing Techniques
Pete Richards
10 January 2001
Astrophotography III

Report of associated practical session

Neil Morley
08 November 2000
Lunar Features
Garry Coleman
11 October 2000
Constellation Close-Up: Lyra
Ted Sampson & Paddy O'Sullivan
13 September 2000
Talking About Telescopes
Ted Sampson
12 April 2000
Astrophotography II

Report of associated practical session

Neil Morley
08 March 2000
Lunar Occultations - the Amateur's Opportunity
James Appleton
09 February 2000
The Mysterious Moon - its Movement and Features
Garry Coleman
12 January 2000
Telescope Making - An Introduction
Mike Harlow
10 November 1999
Observing Project Follow-up: Star Hopping Techniques
Ted Sampson
13 October 1999
Observing Project - Planning and Setting Up
Ted Sampson
08 September 1999
Finding Your Way Around the Sky
Ted Sampson
12 May 1999
Techniques for Photographing an Eclipse
Nigel Evans
14 April 1999
Introduction to Astrophotography
Neil Morley
10 March 1999
Introduction to CCD Imaging
Mike Harlow
10 February 1999
Eclipses
Pete Richards
13 January 1999
Practical Observing Session
David Payne
11 November 1998
Planning Observing
Ted Sampson
14 October 1998
Binoculars and Telescopes
James Appleton
09 September 1998
Tools of the Trade: Star Maps, Charts, Books, Magazines, Planispheres, etc
Ted Sampson


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