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  • Members Talk: Wolvas Observing Weekends (WoW) events

    Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

    A talk by Wolvas members covering the history and results of the seven WoW events. The What, Where, Why and Wow factor of these events.

  • Martin Griffiths – Detecting Life on Exoplanets 

    Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

    Astronomers 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 […]

  • An image of the sun showing surface activity and other features

    Gary Palmer – The Sun: An Introduction to Solar Imaging 

    Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

    Gary 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 […]

  • An image depicting the end of everything

    Steve Barrett – End Of Everything

    Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom (Speaker remote via Zoom) Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

    Although 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 […]

  • Mark McIntyre – Meteors: An Observers Guide 

    Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom (Speaker remote via Zoom) Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

    Mark 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 […]

  • Wonders of Our universe

    Paul Money – Wonders of Our Universe

    Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom (Speaker remote via Zoom) Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

    Take 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 […]

  • Paul Fellows – Quark Stars and Strange Matter

    Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

    The 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 […]

  • Zoom Chat Meeting

    Online via Zoom

    THE 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 […]

  • Steve Tonkin – Right Light At Night

    Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

    Light 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, […]

  • A black and white photo of Sir Bernard Lovell standing in front of the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank, Cheshire

    Damian Hardwick – Sir Bernard Lovell & His Telescope

    Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

    During 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 […]

  • John Thatcher – The James Webb Space Telescope At Work

    Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

    The 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 […]

  • 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 Kingdom

    Professor 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 […]

  • Prof Don Pollacco - PLATO Mission

    Don Pollacco – The Digital Telescope

    Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

    The 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.

  • Keith Moseley – Astronomical Bits and Pieces

    Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom (Speaker remote via Zoom) Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

    A selection of short talks, some of which are audience participation via little quizzes.Note: The speaker will be presenting this remotely via zoom. - Meteorites and Craters- Astronomical Rogues- Bigger, […]

  • Gary Gilbert – The Drake Equation

    Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

    A summary of all the elements of the Drake Equation. What are their effects on the solution to the Equation.Simply put, What are the chances of life elsewhere in the […]

  • Belinda Wilkes – Tour X-ray Universe with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory

    Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton Millennium City Building & Zoom Millennium City Building, via Rosalind Franklin Building entrance, Stafford Street, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

    NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched on 23 July 1999 by the Space Shuttle Columbia. Now in its 25th year of operations, Chandra continues to be an indispensable tool for […]

  • title card for Mark Hardaker's talk on Wadar Meteorite craters of Saudi Arabia

    Mark Hardaker – My Visit to The Wabar Meteorite Craters of  Saudi Arabia

    Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

    Mark presents a talk on his visit to the Wabar Meteorite craters of Saudi Arabia. Bio: I have been an active amateur astronomer for many years. Originally from Keighley, West […]