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SUMMARY:Dr Steve Barrett - The ABC of Stellar Evolution
DESCRIPTION: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 the way they do? \n\n\n\nNote: Dr Barrett will be presenting his talk remotely over Zoom
URL:https://wvtest.opuselite.com/event/2025-2026-season-talk-8-tba/
LOCATION:Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom (Speaker remote via Zoom)\, Room MA030\, Wulfruna Building\, Wulfruna Street\, Wolverhampton\, WV1 1LY\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260119T193000
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SUMMARY:Andrew Thornett - Getting Started in Radio Astronomy
DESCRIPTION: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 as effective as a Takahashi – cloud\, rain\, light pollution: it is enough to make you scream! How about the cost of all that astrophotography gear? Getting it delivered to work or a friend’s house\, and sneaking it in to your home when your partner is not looking…..Is there a way to go beyond all of this and revitalise your astronomy hobby? The answer is a spectacular YES! Radio astronomy is relatively CHEAP\, surprisingly EASY\, and will bring back the EXCITEMENT\, if you are feeling jaded. This talk will explain what you can observe using simple radio telescopes made with low-cost off the shelf equipment\, and show you how to get started. Come to this talk at your peril: Be Warned! You may find out how to enjoy the night sky in a completely new way. \n\n\n\nDR ANDREW MARTYN THORNETT\, M6THODr Andrew Thornett is a General Medical Practitioner in Birmingham with an eclectic interest and passion for all things astronomy. He is a member of the BAA Radio Astronomy Group and Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers in the USA\, and of Rosliston Astronomy Group in Derbyshire\, and the Astronomical Society of Penang in Malaysia.
URL:https://wvtest.opuselite.com/event/2025-2026-season-talk-9/
LOCATION:Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom\, Room MA030\, Wulfruna Building\, Wulfruna Street\, Wolverhampton\, WV1 1LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260202T193000
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SUMMARY:Gary Poyner - 'T Corona Borealis - The Jewel in the Crown
DESCRIPTION:T Corona Borealis\n\n\n\n‘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 observations in all wavelengths\, we eagerly await the next eruption.  This is the story of its discovery in 1866 and 1946\, and what we might expect to see in the next Nova event.’ \n\n\n\nGary Poyner \n\n\n\nFirst telescope for my 7th birthday in 1965\, and have been observing ever since – concentrating on Variable Stars (especially Cataclysmic stars) for the past 50 years.  BAA Variable Star Section Director from 1995-1999. Variable Star editor of ‘The Astronomer’ magazine for 18 years up to 2019. Served on the editorial board for the’ Open European Journal for Variable Stars’. Current BAAVSS Assistant Director\,  Circular editor and Cataclysmic Variable Star co-ordinator and web manager.  I run CVnet (Cataclysmic Variable Network)\, for distributing observations and alerts worldwide. AAVSO Directors award in 2003\,  BAA’s Steavensons award recipient in 2000 and Walter Goodacre award and medal recipient in 2020.  Visual observations from North Birmingham with a 0.5-m reflector\, and CCD photometry using AAVSOnetwork telescopes in Arizona and New Mexico\, Open University COAST and PIRATE telescopes in Tenerife\, and SLOOH telescopes in Tenerife\, Chile and Australia.    Current member of Heart of England AS and Bromsgrove AS\, past president of Wolverhampton AS.  Absolute highlight – appearing on Sky at night in 2012 and spending the weekend at Farthings!
URL:https://wvtest.opuselite.com/event/2025-2026-season-talk-10/
LOCATION:Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom\, Room MA030\, Wulfruna Building\, Wulfruna Street\, Wolverhampton\, WV1 1LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260216T193000
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SUMMARY:Kieron Nixon - Understanding Special Relativity (without the maths). 
DESCRIPTION: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 have noticed the faster you run\, the quicker you get there. Have you ever noticed the faster you run\, the closer the chemist gets? No? Maybe you need to run faster.Ask a goldfish about the curvature of the earth\, or a sloth’s opinion on the national speed limit and you hit the same problem as discussing relativity with humans – they just don’t understand the question. If goldfish holidayed in Marbella\, or sloths commuted down the M6\, the conversations might go differently. You don’t need a degree in maths to understand special relativity\, you just need to live like James Dean; faster. Special relativity kicks in at really high speeds – really high. If children ran around a hundred million times more quickly\, two things would change. Parents would be even more exhausted\, and children in primary school would be taught special relativity the moment they learned speed\, distance and time and they would understand it. \n\n\n\nThis is that lesson. \n\n\n\nKieron NixonKieron studied Astrophysics and Maths\, then worked in schools and colleges until moving to higher education in 2019. He is now a lecturer in Foundation Year Physics at Keele University and helps people get onto degrees in physics\, astrophysics and engineering. He is Director of the Blended Foundation Year Programme which offers mature students or those with barriers to higher education a more flexible way to study on the foundation year. He is also the editor and author of A level Physics Factsheets for Curriculum Press.
URL:https://wvtest.opuselite.com/event/2025-2026-season-talk-11/
LOCATION:Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom\, Room MA030\, Wulfruna Building\, Wulfruna Street\, Wolverhampton\, WV1 1LY\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Fran Bagenal- NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter
DESCRIPTION: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 planet. \n\n\n\nUnderneath its dense cloud cover\, Jupiter safeguards secrets to the fundamental processes and conditions that governed our solar system during its formation. As our primary example of a giant planet\, Jupiter can also provide critical knowledge for understanding the planetary systems being discovered around other stars. JUNO has a suite of science instruments to investigate Jupiter’s interior structure\, mapping the intense magnetic field\, measure the distribution of water and ammonia in the deep atmosphere\, also exploring the mysterious Great Red Spot.  As its orbit has evolved\, the spacecraft has also made flybys of the Galilean moons Ganymede\, Europa\, and Callisto. \n\n\n\nJUNO is also the first spacecraft to fly over Jupiter’s aurora and measure the energetic particles raining down on the planet and the bright “northern & southern lights” they excite. \n\n\n\nA huge bonus is the small public outreach camera that takes fantastic images of Jupiter’s beautiful clouds.  The images – some science\, some art – are processed and shared by the public worldwide. \n\n\n\nNote: Fran will be presenting her talk remotely from Colorado over Zoom
URL:https://wvtest.opuselite.com/event/2025-2026-season-talk-12/
LOCATION:Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom (Speaker remote via Zoom)\, Room MA030\, Wulfruna Building\, Wulfruna Street\, Wolverhampton\, WV1 1LY\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Simon Banton - The Astronomy of Stonehenge
DESCRIPTION: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 accurate? Was there really an eclipse prediction mechanism? \n\n\n\nThe Altar Stone has recently been found to have been sourced from somewhere in NE Scotland and this has profound implications for our appreciation of Stonehenge. Could it have been the monument’s founding stone? If so\, where was it placed and how does one possible position impact our analysis and understanding? \n\n\n\nSimon Banton B.Sc. A.R.C.S.Simon has been an amateur astronomer for 55 years and a Stonehenge geek for more than 30.His undergraduate degree is in physics and astronomy and in 2010 he abandoned a long career in software development to focus on archaeoastronomy research.He moved to a small village on Salisbury Plain\, took a job as a visitor guide at nearby Stonehenge and spent 6 years (ab)using his staff privileges to carry out careful observations of the monument’s theorised alignments.Simon has appeared on the BBC’s Sky at Night and Stargazing Live! programmes talking about the astronomy of Stonehenge and leads private tours of the site and its landscape.In his spare time he enjoys arguing with people online who believe Stonehenge was built by aliens or by Victorians in the 1950s\, and writes articles about his research interests on www.stonehengemonument.co.uk.
URL:https://wvtest.opuselite.com/event/2025-2026-season-talk-13/
LOCATION:Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom\, Room MA030\, Wulfruna Building\, Wulfruna Street\, Wolverhampton\, WV1 1LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260413T193000
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SUMMARY:Simon Holbeche: The Women who discovered what stars are made of.
DESCRIPTION: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 and shattered the contemporary view of stellar astronomy. The talk guides you through these 5 decades and the trials and tribulations for the women involved. \n\n\n\nPlease note that the speaker is presenting this talk remotely over Zoom.  \n\n\n\nAbout Simon:Simon Holbeche is the chair of Bath Astronomers and abnormally keen on astronomical and space outreach. A STEM Ambassador and visiting stargazer for Bath Preservation Trust\, Bath Abbey\, English Heritage and the National Trust.
URL:https://wvtest.opuselite.com/event/2025-2026-season-talk-14-tba/
LOCATION:Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom (Speaker remote via Zoom)\, Room MA030\, Wulfruna Building\, Wulfruna Street\, Wolverhampton\, WV1 1LY\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260511T193000
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SUMMARY:Jacco van Loon: Mysterious matter in interstellar space
DESCRIPTION:The light from stars is intercepted by molecules in deep space but we do not know what the majority of these particles are. They appear as absorption features in the spectra of stars and are therefore called “Diffuse Interstellar Bands”. They were first discovered by  Mary Lea Heger around 1920\, a find\, I would argue\, more significant than the tomb of Tutankhamun. I will tell you this century-old detective story. How we are using powerful telescopes to tease out new clues\, and why it all matters. Be prepared for audience participation – to solve the mystery\, you have to become the mystery!
URL:https://wvtest.opuselite.com/event/2025-2026-season-talk-15-tba/
LOCATION:Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom\, Room MA030\, Wulfruna Building\, Wulfruna Street\, Wolverhampton\, WV1 1LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260608T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260608T210000
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SUMMARY:Paul Fellows - Once around the moons of Pluto
DESCRIPTION:Screenshot\n\n\n\nPluto was recognised as a planet in 1930 but appeared to be alone until 1978. The discovery of a large moon\, Charon\, changed our perspective. With the flyby of the New Horizons probe more moons were discovered\, and along with them new mysteries and new clues about this interesting system of small worlds in the outer solar system.
URL:https://wvtest.opuselite.com/event/2025-2026-season-talk-16/
LOCATION:Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom\, Room MA030\, Wulfruna Building\, Wulfruna Street\, Wolverhampton\, WV1 1LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talks
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