The Webb Deep-Sky Society

The Webb Deep-Sky Society 2014 Annual Meeting will be held at the Institute of Astronomy (IoA) in Cambridge on Sat 21st June 2014.

 

Click here for directions to the IoA

Click here for a map of the IOA site - please take note of the alternative Car Park locations available on site

 

Speakers confirmed to date include:

 

09:30                            Coffee

10:15 - 10:45               Bob Argyle - Introduction and AGM

10:45 - 11:30               Guy Hurst - The Evolution of Star Clusters

11:30 - 12:15               Mark Hurn  (IoA) - Sir Arthur Eddington: Man, Myth and Mystic.  The life of  the Great Astrophysicist who Proved Einstein right 

12:15 - 13:00               Dr Vasily Belokurov (IoA) - Discovery of the new Milky Way Satellite in Crater

13:00                             Lunch

14:30 - 15:15               Nick James - Remote Observing of the Deep Sky with Practical Demo

15:15 - 16:00               Gain Lee - Observing & Imaging the Distant Deep Sky

16:00                            Tea

16:30 - 17:30               Wil Tirion - Charting the Heavens: Uranography Yesterday and Today      

17:30                            Bob Argyle - Close of Meeting

 

Trade Stands confirmed:

 

British Astronomical Association

Cambridge University Press

The Webb Deep-Sky Society

Scope n Skies & Pulsar Observatories

 

Entrance Fee:    £10 (Members)    £15 (Non-Members - £5 Refundable if you pay for a Membership Subscription to the Webb Deep-Sky Society at the Annual Meeting).  For further details please contact Stewart Moore

 

Entrance Fee includes Coffee, Tea and Buffet Lunch.

 

*** Catering is limited to 90 people and those arriving after the lunch tickets are sold out may attend the talks and pay a reduced entrance fee.

 

Stewart Moore - Meetings Organiser

 

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