Michael Foulkes, BAA section director for Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, will give us a talk about Neptune. There will also be a presentation on the sky at night for the coming month. If you would like further details then please contact Anita King.

Annual General Meeting (AGM). A copy of the AGM Agenda and Chairman’s Report will be available in the Reports Section of this site nearer the time. If you would like further details then please contact Antia King.

Phil Halper from the Royal Astronomical Society will talk about Aurora. Phil is the creator of the popular YouTube series Before the Big Bang, which has had several million views, and was previously journalist in residence at the Penn State Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos. His astronomy images have been featured in major media outlets including The Washington Post, the BBC, and The Guardian, and he has published several papers in peer-reviewed journals. There will also be a presentation on the sky…

Dr Ben Rider-Stokes is an active researcher at the Open University investigating the mineralogical surfaces of asteroids and planets through the analysis of meteorites. He will talk to us about previous missions to asteroids and some that are ongoing. And he will bring meteorites which we will be able to hold and photograph !! Ben has several publications which you might want to read before the lecture, a recent paper tests a major gap in planetary science knowledge, known as the…