Talks
Events
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Mary McIntyre FRAS – A History of Women in Astronomy
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomMary McIntyre FRAS Mary is an Oxfordshire based amateur astronomer and astrophotographer who has had a life-long interest in Astronomy.Throughout history astronomy has been very male dominated. There have been […]
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Steve Warbis – Messier’s objects and how they map the Milky Way
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomAn outline of some key aspects of Messier’s life and achievements, an illustration and assessment of the nature, distribution and discovery of the various Messier objects in the sky, and […]
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Michael Barratt – Astronomy & Freemasonry
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomA talk on how astronomy has influenced Masonic Ritual, with an overview of Freemasonry, its history, structure and rituals, including astronomers and astronauts who were, or may have been, Freemasons.
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Martin Lunn – Astronomy in the Mediterranean
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomMany great civilisations flourished in the ancient Mediterranean. This talk takes us on an astronomical journey to Egypt, Greece, Mesopotamia and the empires of Byzantium and Arabia. We will also […]
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Andrew Newsam – Noisy Data: Listening to astronomical observations
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomNoisy Data: Listening to astronomical observations
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Andrew Lound – Space: The Fuel Cell Frontier
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomPaul Pope Memorial free public lecture. Space - The Fuel Cell Frontier.The story of the development of the Hydrogen fuel cell from the discovery of Hydrogen through to future prospects. […]
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Peter Jenkins – Imaging from Light Polluted Skies
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomPeter's talk 'Imaging from Light Polluted Cities' is a look at how to image from urban sky glow using a scope and specialist Astro camera. This will include the reasons […]
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Wolvas Member Talks: Binary Stars + Astronomical Navigation
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomAn evening of short talks presented by Wolvas members. Roger Metcalfe: Binary Stars. Duncan Willis: Astronomical Navigation - The history and application of astronomical co-ordinates.
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Mary McIntyre – A History of Women in Astronomy Part 2
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomFollowing on from part one, this talk looks at the trailblazing women working in astronomy after Caroline Herschel, through the Victorian era and into the modern day. It covers some […]
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Dr Julian Onions – Black Holes – are they really that bad?
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomBlack Holes - are they really that bad? Black holes have got a pretty bad rap from films and books, being looked on as terrifying objects that suck spaceships and […]
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Steve Wootton – David Harris Lecture: Celestial Catalogues
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomA potted history of Celestial Catalogues.
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Keaton Stone – Adventures in Space and Telly
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomDescription pending...
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AGM & Phil Barnard – Science Fact or Science Fiction
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom“Trust me, I’m a scientist!” Well we all make mistakes; perhaps through ignorance, a desire to hold on to a cherished theory or when the imagination is allowed to run […]
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Richard Goodrich – Comet Madness
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomIn 1705, Edmond Halley liberated humanity from the belief that comets were portents of doom; two centuries later, when Halley’s Comet returned to its perihelion, newspapers, misguided theorists, and shameless […]
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Members Talk: Wolvas Observing Weekends (WoW) events
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomA talk by Wolvas members covering the history and results of the seven WoW events. The What, Where, Why and Wow factor of these events.
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Martin Griffiths – Detecting Life on Exoplanets
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomAstronomers are moving closer and closer to detecting the signatures of life on other planets. with the advent of new technologies and the JWST we are on the threshold of […]
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Gary Palmer – The Sun: An Introduction to Solar Imaging
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomGary Palmer is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and Assistant Director of the Equipment and Technical Section of the British Astronomical Association. Gary has been interested in Astronomy […]
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Steve Barrett – End Of Everything
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom (Speaker remote via Zoom) Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomAlthough it took only three minutes to make our Universe (see 'Beginning of Everything' given to Wolvas in Jan 2021) it will take more than a trillion trillion years for […]
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Mark McIntyre – Meteors: An Observers Guide
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom (Speaker remote via Zoom) Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomMark will cover three areas, what they are, why we are interested in them, and how to observe visually, with a camera, by radio and by video, wrapping up with […]
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Paul Money – Wonders of Our Universe
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom (Speaker remote via Zoom) Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomTake a tour of what lies beyond our solar system in our Milky Way Galaxy and to the far reaches of our Universe. NOTE: The speaker will be presenting this […]