A talk given from the VLT on Paranal, what we do as a support astronomer working at the European Southern Observatory in Chile. Followed by a live showing of the […]

Gaia is a European Space Agency satellite that has been mapping individual stars in our Milky Way Galaxy since its launch in 2013. I will explain how its 3 trillion […]

Wolvas member Damian Hardwick presents a series of three short talks, titled:● Max Planck meeting the Chancellor.● Sending Humans to Mars● Comet Halley is coming the 40th anniversary.

With the recent launch of NASA's Europa Clipper mission, this presentation looks back at the history of spacecraft that have visited the mighty planet, the challenges they faced and the […]

Note: Dr Mason will be presenting this talk remotely via zoom The Sun has given us quite a few X class flares recently and even some beautiful displays of the […]

Dr Andrew Gascoyne from the University of Wolverhampton will give a talk on sunspots: Sunspots have long served as a window into the dynamic processes of our nearest star.  This […]

We take a trip down memory lane for a retrospective look at the steady state theory. Starting with its origins and how it compared to the big bang theory. The […]

Society member Linda Manas presents a talk on Trigonometry in Astronomy: Measuring the Earth and the Moon. Linda will discuss early trigonometrical methods of finding the Earth’s tilt, latitude and […]

Most of the UK population live either in a city or town, or near enough to one, that light pollution is a problem for both observers and imagers. Robin Scagell, […]

I am the ninth director of the British Astronomical Association's Historical Section. The first director was a solar astronomer called Mary Evershed (nee Orr). She was the editor of the […]

This talk will explore the Space Shuttle, from its origins, its missions, how it contributed to astronomy and on to current and future Shuttles.

A look at the birth, life and death of stars. What are the three factors (the ABC) that determine why stars are the way they are and why they evolve […]

Have you ever looked at the clouds and wanted to throw your expensive equipment in the bin? Here in the UK, much of the time, a cardboard tube would be […]

'Nova Corona Borealis 1866 was the first Nova to have its spectrum examined.  Eighty years later in 1946 the Nova erupted again, causing great excitement.  Now, after a further eighty years of […]

Special Relativity Without the Maths (or How to Fit a Metre Stick into a Matchbox)You might think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s. You might even […]

NASA’s JUNO mission was launched in August 2011 and has been in orbit over Jupiter’s poles since 4th July 2016, its mission to understand the origin and evolution of the […]

This talk will investigate the astronomical alignments at Stonehenge - both those that are academically accepted and also some others not generally known about. Do they all exist? Are they […]

101 years ago, a 24-year-old English woman had her astrophysics PhD published based on her work at Harvard College Observatory. It bought together 50 years of effort by Harvard’s computers […]