BRINGING ASTRONOMY AND SPACE INTO YOUR HOME
A compilation of resources and events for bringing us together even in isolation
Wells & Mendip Astronomers resources and events
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Friday 9th July 2021 19:30 - 21:00
'A guide to simple astrophotography’ by Paul Money FRAS FBIS
Award-winning astronomer, writer and braodcaster
Free tickets at https://billetto.co.uk/e/guide-to-simple-astrophotography-by-paul-money-fras-tickets-521665/
Webinars
Saturday 31st July 2021 19:30 - 20:30
Members webinar: 'A tale of two explosions’ by Hugh Allen
The spectroscopic evolution of the two bright novae that exploded into view this spring - Nova Cassiopeiae 2021 and Nova Herculis 2021. They were incredibly different! Free tickets at https://billetto.co.uk/e/wma-talk-a-tale-of-two-explosions-tickets-551764/
Saturday 21st August 2021 19:30 - 20:30
Members webinar: 'The discovery of the planets' by Richard Hook
The story moves from the famous five known since ancient times to the present day, and features a fascinating cast of characters, national disputes and odd episodes. Free tickets at https://billetto.co.uk/e/wma-talk-the-discovery-of-the-planets-by-richard-hook-tickets-551766/
Live video observing
Fred and Ed Vanner would have presented live views of Mars after our Mars Night monthly meeting on Saturday 14th November 2020, but the weather was terrible! So we settled for a video they'd prepared earlier :-)
Simon Holbeche presented 'Skies from my Shed' on Thursday Apr 23, 2020 - thanks Simon, it was great fun. We saw Venus, Castor (binary star), Messier 51 Whirlpool Galaxy and Messier 44 Beehive Cluster
Naked eye astronomy events
Brian Davidson posts a monthly blog on our Blog Page explaining how to find your way around the sky
External resources and events
TED talk and online articles Chris Starr, the founder of Wells & Mendip Astronomers, has suggested a fascinating TED talk by Dr. Marc Rayman of JPL, who led the Dawn Mission to Ceres and Vesta. Chris met him a couple of times at Spacefest and had a chance to interview him in depth. Dr Rayman is a wonderful advocate for science and exploration, and has recently done a TED Talk on this for which he gave Chris the following link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0PbFp-y6Dc
Related to Dr Rayman's talk Chris published a couple of interesting RocketSTEM articles on the Dawn mission which are well worth a read:
https://www.rocketstem.org/2015/03/01/exploring-the-dawn-of-the-solar-system/
https://www.rocketstem.org/2017/01/03/dawns-rich-harvest-as-ceres-gives-up-secrets/
Space Detectives is running regular online events for families https://spacedetectives.com/
British Astronomical Association webinars, on occasional Wednesday evenings 19:00 BST https://britastro.org/node/21142
On Wednesday 6th May 2020, Hugh Allen gave the BAA's Wednesday Webinar on hunting for molecules with a spectroscope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6x1wuwKK20 British Astronomical Association video archive is also now publicly available https://britastro.org/node/21026
British Interplanetary Society are streaming previous lectures and live Q&A sessions https://www.bis-space.com/2020/04/06/24452/streaming-bis-lectures
The Virtual Astronomy Club - online get togethers https://www.star-gazing.co.uk/WebPage/virtual-astro-club/
Cambridge Institute of Astronomy - pre-recorded and live online talks https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa7e55mYI2xQAoV_0hRmL-g
Astrobites - daily summaries by students of the latest astronomy research https://astrobites.org
Greenway Talks Online from the Palomar Observatory in California - a fortnightly lecture series delivered by experts in their field of astronomy. The lectures are recorded and can be found at Observatory’s YouTube
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please follow this link to our shop where you can pay online and we will then contact you for further details if needed.
Or contact us at wellsmendipastro@gmail.com
The membership year runs from 1st April - 31st March
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