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Next Meeting: Wednesday September 11 at 8:00pm Distance Scales Roger O’Brien
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We, Oct 11
Richard Goodrich
How the 1910 Return of Halley’s Comet (Almost) Destroyed Civilization
2024-25 Programme (subject to change)
Wed, Sep 11
Roger O’Brien
Distance Scales
Wed, Oct 9
Sam Rolfe
Raman Spectroscopy and the search for life in the Solar System
Wed, Nov 13
Robert Connon Smith
So Simple a thing as a Star
Wed, Dec 11
Jill Stuart
The governance of the "Final Frontier"
Wed, Jan 8
Martin Lewis
Planetary Imaging at the Edge
Wed, Feb 12
Quentin Stanley
The Art of (Computer) Modelling
Wed, Mar 12
Mike Foulkes
Eclipses.
Wed, Apr 9
David Southwood
A Decade as an ESA Director
Wed, May 14
Jerry Stone
AGM followed by Is Pluto a Planet? - 15 years since New Horizons flyby.
Wed, June 11
Kevin Fong
Living on the Moon
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This meeting will be held at: University of Hertfordshire Lindop Building College Lane Hatfield AL10 9AB (What 3 words: stars.stones.energetic) and simultaneously on Zoom. There is plenty of parking space around the venue which is free after 19:00
In the vast expanse of outer space, distances are mind-bogglingly immense. Imagine spanning millions of light-years just to reach the nearest neighbouring galaxy. To put it into perspective, if you were to hop on a rocket ship and travel at the speed of light, it would take you 4.24 years just to reach our closest star, Proxima Centauri. And that's not even scratching the surface! The sheer enormity of cosmic distances renders even familiar measurements meaningless—light-years become merely a unit to quantify unfathomable expanses. Come and join us as Roger O’Brien takes us on this journey into the cosmos. After six decades, Roger O’Brien is still an amateur astronomer. Whilst working for 26 years in a bank in the City, he “survived” to earn a BSc in Astronomy and began teaching. One course was held at the Sele School and it was students from that course, who founded the Hertford Astronomy Group. He says that one of his proudest moments was to be elected President of HAG.
Note for your diaries: Saturday March 29 - partial solar Eclipse 10:00 - 12:00 Noon - Public Eclipse Watch
Aurora visible in Hertfordshire and Wales 10-12 May 2024 Photos: Steve Heliczer, Richard Sheppard and Owain Powell
AGM 15 May 2024 Draft Minutes and documents
Minutes of AGM Minutes of AGM Finance report for AGM Finance report for AGM Statement of Accounts 2023-24 Statement of Accounts 2023-24 Video Recording of AGM Video Recording of AGM
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Next Meeting: Wednesday September 11 at 8:00pm Distance Scales Roger O’Brien
In the vast expanse of outer space, distances are mind- bogglingly immense. Imagine spanning millions of light- years just to reach the nearest neighbouring galaxy. To put it into perspective, if you were to hop on a rocket ship and travel at the speed of light, it would take you 4.24 years just to reach our closest star, Proxima Centauri. And that's not even scratching the surface! The sheer enormity of cosmic distances renders even familiar measurements meaningless—light- years become merely a unit to quantify unfathomable expanses. Come and join us as Roger O’Brien takes us on this journey into the cosmos. After six decades, Roger O’Brien is still an amateur astronomer. Whilst working for 26 years in a bank in the City, he “survived” to earn a BSc in Astronomy and began teaching. One course was held at the Sele School and it was students from that course, who founded the Hertford Astronomy Group. He says that one of his proudest moments was to be elected President of HAG.
Visitors most welcome at meetings or on Zoom
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Aurora Pictures: Steve Heliczer, Richard Sheppard and Owain Powell
Aurora Pictures at bottom of the page
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