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Meeting Information

All Meetings are held on the first Wednesday of the Month at 20:00 in Southover Grange, Southover High St, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 1TP. 

Meetings are scheduled for 1 hour. 

There is no meeting in January, July or August.

All are welcome. 

Members - £1  Non-members - £2.50  Membership is £10 for the year starting in September.

Tea and Coffee is available.

After the meeting, if the sky is clear, we go outside to the terrace for naked eye observing.

Meeting Schedule

5th September 2007 Bob Turner (Worthing Astronomy Society) - Why are stars so different?
3rd October 2007 Prof Andrew Liddle (Sussex University)
7th November 2007 Dr Isaac Roseboom (Sussex University) - Galloping Galaxies - the formation history of galaxy clusters
5th December 2007 Christmas Lecture by Marguerite Laporte FRAS with musical entertainment and refreshments - The Mystery of the Star of Bethlehem - was it an astronomical event or a miracle?
6th Feburary 2008 Robert Smith (Sussex University) - The Distant Future of the Earth
5th March 2008 Alan Drummond (Crawley Astronomy Society) - The Andromeda Galaxy
2nd April 2008 Norman Walker (Eastbourne Astronomical Society) - Cygnus X-1 - Black Hole or Not?
7th May 2008 Dr David Parkinson (Sussex University) - TBA
4th June 2008 AGM @ 19:45, followed by:
Gordon Taylor (Eastbourne Astronomical Society) - Occultations

Previous Meetings

6th June 2007 Short AGM @ 19:45, followed by:
Alan Smith (Horsham Astronomy Society): Observing the Deep Sky
2nd May 2007 Dr Jon Loveday (Sussex University) - Galaxy surveys
4th April 2007 Matthew Hepburn (Ponlaf) - Stars: How they form, and what they do
7th March 2007 John Stapleton (Basingstoke Astronomy Society) - How Long is a Piece of String?
7th Feburary 2007 Paul Roche (Faulkes Telescope) - The Faulkes Telescope
6th December 2006 Bob Turner (Worthing Astronomy Society) - "So you want to be an astronomer??"
1st November 2006 Prof. Bernard Pagel (Sussex University) - The metal-rich universe and planets
4th October 2006 Dr Robert Smith (Sussex University) - Stars that go bang in the night

7th June 2006

AGM followed by Alice Smol (Lewes Astronomers) - Richard Feynman - Quantum Gravity and Cosmology

3rd May 2006

Prof. Leon Mestel (Sussex University) - Arthur Stanley Eddington, Pioneer of Stellar Structure Theory

5th April 2006

Matthew Hepburn MA, FRAS (Ponlaf) - Another Look at the Ice Ages

1st March 2006

Philip Harris (Sussex University) - The Mystery of the Universe's Missing Antimatter

1st February 2006

Dave Harris (British & Irish Meteorite Society) - Talk on Meteorites

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Practical Observation Meeting Information

The Lewes Astronomers hold practical observing meetings for members throughout the year when the sky conditions allow it.  We have a dark site in South Chailey or Isfield, East Sussex for these meetings.  They are held on an ad-hoc basis, and if you add your name to the telephone list, please email richie@helkit.com