🎄🎄 Annual Christmas Lecture Announcement🎄🎄
We are pleased to announce that our 2023 Christmas lecture will be taking place on Friday 15th December, at Monton Methodist Church.
We will be having a small social gathering before hand with the doors opening at 7:00pm to say hello and reminisce of the year gone by. Feel free to bring sausage rolls and/or mince pies! Tea and Coffee will be provided.
The talk itself has been pre-recorded by our honorary president and dear friend Dr Allan Chapman FRAS. The talk will be shown starting at 7:30pm and is entitled:
“From beer brewing to the stars: John Flamsteed and the founding of the Greenwich Royal Observatory”
The event is free for anyone who may wish to attend (although any voluntary donations to the society would be greatly appreciated!)
NASA have confirmed they are back in contact with the Voyager 2 soace probe, after losing contact with it in mid-July
Voyager 2: Nasa fully back in contact with lost space probe https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66408851
Comet C/12P Pons-Brookes has brightened.
Comet C/12P has brightened and is now within range of many amateur telescopes once the persistent cloud clears. The comet appears as a bright, almost stellar nucleus surrounded by a fuzzy round patch with a dark bite taken out of it. It is a periodic comet and will not return for another 71 years when it finally leaves our skies. Its closest approach to earth will be on 2nd June 2024. It is believed to have been discovered in 1385. Its last visit was picked up on 20th June 1953.
image by Michael O’Brien