Talks
Events
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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 […]
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Paul Fellows – Quark Stars and Strange Matter
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomThe usual story told of the end stage of giant stars is that they either finish up as a neutron star or collapse completely to a black hole. However, in […]
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Zoom Chat Meeting
Online via ZoomTHE PLANNED TALK FOR THIS DATE HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO TECHNICAL ISSUES. PLEASE DO NOT TURN UP AT THE UNIVERISTY OF WOLVERHAMPTON - NOTHING IS TAKING PLACE THERE. There […]
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Steve Tonkin – Right Light At Night
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomLight Pollution was first identified as a problem by astronomers, but its consequences reach far wider. It is now widely recognised that artificial light at night, especially bright white light, […]
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Damian Hardwick – Sir Bernard Lovell & His Telescope
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomDuring his time as director of Jodrell Bank, Sir Bernhard Lovell turned a patch of Cheshire countryside into one of the worlds leading radio observatories. In this talk we take […]
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John Thatcher – The James Webb Space Telescope At Work
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomThe talk will provide a basic understanding of JWST and why it looks the way it does along with a look at some of the results obtained during the first […]
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Christine Rodrigue, Ph.D – Geography of Mars
Exploring the geography of Mars using Mental maps
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Professor Chris Lintott – Our Accidental Universe
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton Millennium City Building & Zoom Millennium City Building, via Rosalind Franklin Building entrance, Stafford Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomProfessor Chris Lintott, astrophysicist, author and broadcaster presents this years lecture held in memorial of former Wolvas president Paul Pope. Exploring a cosmos as vast as ours is bound to […]
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Don Pollacco – The Digital Telescope
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomThe Digital Telescope (DT) is a large array of small stationary telescopes which, in essence, produce a movie- like data stream of the entire visible sky.