| Kuiper belt objects and other distant minor planets Zoom talk by Prof Dr Nik Whitehead |
3rd Apr 2025 |
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| Dr David Whitehouse; Zoom talk on 'Searching for life and what it means' |
20th Mar 2025 |
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| Dark Nebulae by Paul Howat |
20th Mar 2025 |
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| Dr Simon Helan (SAS) gave a live and Zoom talk on "Asteroids Harbingers of Death And Life" |
6th Feb 2025 |
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| Chris Followell gave a live and Zoom talk on Robotic telescopes |
23rd Jan 2025 |
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| Dr Andrew Mclean gave live and Zoom talk entitled A Pulsar Miscellany |
9th Jan 2025 |
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| Observing the Herschel 400 |
28th Nov 2024 |
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| Barry Fitzgerald gave a Zoom talk on 'Lunar Geology from the safety of your own home' |
14th Nov 2024 |
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| The Perils of Time Travel Zoom Philip Wallace (CAS) Zoom and live |
31st Oct 2024 |
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| Solar imaging in H-alpha |
9th Oct 2024 |
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| Exotic and Hypothetical stars. In person and Zoom talk by Dr Nik Whitehead |
3rd Oct 2024 |
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| Isaac Newton and the Surrey Pumas. Mike Frost (Director of the BAA Historical Section) gave a talk via Zoom on 'Isaac Newton and the Surrey Pumas' |
19th Sep 2024 |
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| Jenifer Millard - Galaxies and the Infrared: In person and Zoom talk |
27th Jun 2024 |
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| The Sun through a Gband filter |
20th Jun 2024 |
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| A Life in Astronomy and Space Research: Prof David Rees Zoom lecture |
13th Jun 2024 |
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| Roger Pittock gave a talk on Smart Telescopes- Introduction & Comparison |
30th May 2024 |
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| April 8th 2024 Total Eclipse of the Sun. |
16th May 2024 |
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| The Sun in H-alpha light |
5th May 2024 |
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| A Very British Meteorite Zoom only talk by Martin Lunn MBE FRAS |
2nd May 2024 |
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| Prehistoric Astronomers and the value of their legacies IQ Building Room 001 and on Zoom |
18th Apr 2024 |
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| Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena - Historical & Current Perspectives Alan Foster (Cardiff A.S.) IQ Building Room 001 and on Zoom |
4th Apr 2024 |
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| Open Star Clusters Live and Zoom talk by Howard Davies (Swansea Astronomical Society) |
21st Mar 2024 |
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| Live and Zoom lecture on Planetary nebulae |
11th Jan 2024 |
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| Accuracy, Innovation and the Advance of Astronomy 1923 - 2023 by Professor Mike Edmunds. |
16th Nov 2023 |
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| Time lapse, Uranus, The Witch head nebula and Jupiter |
16th Nov 2023 |
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| Neutrinos in Astronomy by Dr Andrew McLean |
2nd Nov 2023 |
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| A Stairway to Heaven (Space Elevators) Phil Wallace FRAS Thursday October 19th |
20th Oct 2023 |
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| The Lion nebula |
9th Oct 2023 |
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| Nebulae, Galaxies and Perseids |
11th Aug 2023 |
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| The Sun in White light with a bridge camera |
1st Aug 2023 |
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| Planetary Protection Live and Zoom lecture by Dr Nik Whitehead. |
29th Jun 2023 |
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| New feature release of AstroDMx Capture |
18th Apr 2023 |
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| Swansea Astronomical Society at Swansea’s National Waterfront Museum’s “Super Science Sunday” event on the 19th March |
21st Mar 2023 |
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| From Mars to the Multiverse Zoom lecture by the Astronomer Royal |
23rd Feb 2023 |
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| Members' viewing and imaging at the Brian Stokes Cygnus Observatory on the 13th February |
14th Feb 2023 |
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| Cracking Starlight's Hidden Code; Zoom lecture. |
9th Feb 2023 |
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| Closed Loop Life Support Systems |
26th Jan 2023 |
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| FRBs and ORCs: some recent ‘oddities’ in Radio Astronomy by Andrew McLean SAS |
12th Jan 2023 |
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| Apollo17 - the 50th anniversary of the last man on the Moon |
20th Dec 2022 |
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| The Story of Jodrell Bank; Zoom lecture by Prof Ian Morrison |
27th Oct 2022 |
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| Imaging at the Brian Stokes Cygnus Observatory |
18th Oct 2022 |
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| 13 Oct 2022 - David Richards - 'Building and Operating a Dome Observatory' |
13th Oct 2022 |
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| Astronomical Sketching Workshop with Mary McIntyre |
20th Sep 2022 |
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| Deep Sky imaging |
10th Aug 2022 |
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| Seeing a Black Hole with the Africa Millimetre Telescope |
28th Jul 2022 |
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| June 30th Astrolabes and how to use them |
30th Jun 2022 |
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| Using AstroCrop software with solar data from a Panasonic Lumix DMCFZ72 Bridge camera fitted with a solar filter |
20th Apr 2022 |
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| Zoom talk on The Isaac Newton Telescope. |
20th Apr 2022 |
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| The James Webb Space Telescope Zoom lecture |
7th Apr 2022 |
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| Astronomy in the Mediterranean; Zoom talk |
24th Mar 2022 |
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| Zoom talk on Cosmic Multi-Messengers, Astrophysical Particles |
10th Mar 2022 |
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| Infrared Astronomy Zoom talk by Professor Matt Griffin |
20th Feb 2022 |
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| Incoming! Preventing Earth-Asteroid collisions |
20th Jan 2022 |
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| Active galaxies and Black Holes |
20th Dec 2021 |
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| Zoom talk on Observing planetary nebulae |
20th Dec 2021 |
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| Stellar Evolution Part-2 |
20th Nov 2021 |
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| Using Remote Telescopes. Zoom Talk |
4th Nov 2021 |
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| "Meteors: from comet to camera". Zoom talk by Dr Colin Steele. |
21st Oct 2021 |
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| Celestial Mechanics, Zoom lecture by Paul Spurr |
20th Oct 2021 |
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| Crazy interstallar rockets; Zoom talk by Dr Julian Onions |
9th Sep 2021 |
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| The Solar System from a backyard, talk by Howard Davies |
12th Aug 2021 |
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| Mary McIntyre FRAS Zoom lecture to the Swansea Astronomical Society: 'A History of Women in Astronomy'. |
15th Jul 2021 |
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| Zoom Meeting with Bob Mizon |
17th Jun 2021 |
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| Zoom Meeting of the SAS with Dr D.L. Clements giving a lecture on Phosphine Gas in the Cloud Decks of Venus. |
20th May 2021 |
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| Post Zoom Meeting observing at the Brian Stokes Cygnus Observatory at Fairwood |
7th May 2021 |
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| Zoom Meeting and AGM of the Swansea Astronomical Society |
6th May 2021 |
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| M53 with a smartphone |
20th Apr 2021 |
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| Zoom meeting of the Swansea Astronomical Society. Dr Nik Whitehead talked about Missions to Comets |
20th Apr 2021 |
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| Eclipse chasing: A Zoom talk by Chris Bowden (SAS) |
25th Mar 2021 |
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| Images with a mobile phone |
20th Mar 2021 |
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| Astronomical Cycles and Climate Change, Zoom Lecture |
20th Mar 2021 |
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| Obituary of John Thomas Swansea Astronomical Society member |
20th Feb 2021 |
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| Zoom meeting talk on Astrophysical Particles: Cosmic Multi-Messengers by Jeff Zorko |
12th Feb 2021 |
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| Professor Chris Lintott - A State of the Universe |
28th Jan 2021 |
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| Zoom talk on Double Stars by Howard Davies |
14th Jan 2021 |
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| Merry Christmas 2020 from the Swansea Astronomical Society! |
18th Dec 2020 |
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| The Star of Bethlehem by Stephen Tonkin, a Swansea Astronomical Society Zoom meeting. |
10th Dec 2020 |
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| SAS Zoom lecture by Dr Nik Whitehead |
27th Nov 2020 |
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| Society Talk: Review of Astro Imaging Techniques with Alan Jefferis |
20th Nov 2020 |
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| Stellar Evolution Part-1 (Society Talk - Via Zoom) |
22nd Oct 2020 |
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| Telescope for Sale in the Buy and Sell section of this website |
20th Oct 2020 |
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| Radio Astronomy with Paul Spurr (Society talk - via Zoom) |
8th Oct 2020 |
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| Zoom meeting with guest speaker James Fradgley |
24th Sep 2020 |
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| Live Zoom meeting from the SAS Fairwood Observatory |
20th Sep 2020 |
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| Zoom introductory meeting for SAS members |
20th Sep 2020 |
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| Timekeeping on Mars. A Zoom lecture by Dr Nik Whitehead |
4th Apr 2020 |
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| Star Party at the National Botanic Garden for Wales |
29th Feb 2020 |
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| Astronomical event at the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea, Saturday Jan 18th |
18th Jan 2020 |
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| What's that planet doing there? |
9th Jan 2020 |
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| Star party at the National Botanic Garden of Wales |
17th Nov 2019 |
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| Deep Sky Observing in Cassiopeia (Society Talk) |
24th Oct 2019 |
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| Saturn with a DFK 21AU04.AS camera, Linux and a bit of Python code |
25th Aug 2019 |
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| Mapping the Solar System from your Backyard |
26th Apr 2019 |
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| The Physics of the Impossible |
11th Apr 2019 |
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| Observing session after the SAS meeting |
29th Mar 2019 |
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| Testing the refurbished scope at the SAS observatory |
27th Mar 2019 |
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| Astronomy in an Age of Revolutions |
20th Mar 2019 |
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| The Faulkes Telescope |
20th Mar 2019 |
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| Gravitational Waves |
14th Feb 2019 |
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| Observing at the SAS Fairwood observatory Jan 28th |
28th Jan 2019 |
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| Celestron Sky Prodigy 130 computerised telescope for sale |
20th Jan 2019 |
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| Globular Clusters |
20th Jan 2019 |
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| Messier and the Messier Objects |
20th Jan 2019 |
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| New maintenance release of AstroDMx Capture for Linux, including the Raspberry Pi 3 version |
20th Jan 2019 |
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| Broadband, Narrowband, a talk by Nick Hart |
20th Dec 2018 |
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| Star Party at the National Botanic Garden for Wales |
20th Nov 2018 |
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| The Life and Work of Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin |
20th Nov 2018 |
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| New version of AstroDMx Capture for Linux (0.50.1) |
20th Nov 2018 |
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| Terraforming Venus |
20th Nov 2018 |
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| Astronomy at the National Waterfront Museum Swansea |
29th Oct 2018 |
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| Nov 24th Astronomical Event at Glyncorrwg Ponds Visitor Centre |
20th Oct 2018 |
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| 28 October 2018, 7pm Stargazing evening at the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea |
20th Oct 2018 |
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| Thursday October 25th Society Lecture by Dr Simon Helan of Swansea Astronomical Society |
20th Oct 2018 |
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| Furzehill Observatory |
11th Oct 2018 |
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| New Venue for the Swansea Astronomical Society. Trallwn Community Centre, Bethel Road, Llansamlet, Swansea SA7 9QP |
2nd Oct 2018 |
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| A solstice Sun in H-alpha with solar-minimum sunspots with AstroDMx Capture for Linux |
21st Jun 2018 |
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| The Night Sky in July 2018 |
20th Jun 2018 |
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| Variable Stars |
26th Apr 2018 |
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| Meteorite Falls In Wales |
12th Apr 2018 |
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| New release (0.10.2.0) of AstroDMx Capture for Linux |
20th Mar 2018 |
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| "What Has Astronomy Ever Done For Us?" |
20th Mar 2018 |
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| More tests with a Sweex WC035V2 VGA CMOS webcam costing less than £8 |
20th Mar 2018 |
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| Neutron Stars and other Extreme Matter |
20th Mar 2018 |
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| The Geology of Mars with Bob Owens |
22nd Feb 2018 |
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| The Science of Solar Observing |
8th Feb 2018 |
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| Sweex WC035V2 webcam tested as a lunar imager |
7th Feb 2018 |
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| SKYWATCHER 250PDS 250mm Reflector and Synscan mount for sale |
30th Jan 2018 |
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| Star Party/Astronomical Exhibition Three-Society event at the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea |
20th Jan 2018 |
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| First light for a Raspberry Pi camera module with a Raspberry Pi 3 |
28th Dec 2017 |
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| Emergent Gravity, Dark Matter and Dark Energy. |
24th Nov 2017 |
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| Telescopes through the ages |
20th Nov 2017 |
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| Star Party at Swansea Airport |
28th Oct 2017 |
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| Following the SAROS with Nick Lewis FRAS FBIS |
12th Oct 2017 |
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| BAY TV and the Swansea Astronomical Society |
20th Sep 2017 |
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| The Yearbook of Astronomy 2018 available for pre-order |
13th Jul 2017 |
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| Swansea Astronomical Society talk to and present a telescope to the New Barry Astronomical Society. More power to astronomy in South Wales. |
13th Jun 2017 |
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| Yearbook of Astronomy 2017 reminder of your chance to get a copy |
20th May 2017 |
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| Binoculars |
28th Apr 2017 |
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| Altair Wave Series 130 F7 ED Triplet APO For sale |
20th Apr 2017 |
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| The Science of the Apollo landings |
20th Apr 2017 |
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| 'Under City Skies', Lecture by Nick Hart astrophotographer |
10th Mar 2017 |
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| Astronomy and Philosophy |
20th Feb 2017 |
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| The Event Horizon Telescope - Imaging the Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole |
20th Feb 2017 |
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| A sad loss to the Swansea Astronomical Society |
20th Jan 2017 |
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| Plants in Space, Solar observing and Star Party at the National Botanic Garden for Wales, Sat Nov 19th |
20th Nov 2016 |
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| Plants in Space at the National Botanic Garden for Wales. Sat Nov 19th |
20th Nov 2016 |
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| Correction: Plants in Space at the National Botanic Garden for Wales. Sat Nov 19th |
20th Nov 2016 |
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| Swansea's youngest Astronomer |
20th Nov 2016 |
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| First meeting of 2016/7 session |
20th Oct 2016 |
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| Star Party CANCELLED Friday October 7th |
20th Oct 2016 |
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| Sad news |
20th Aug 2016 |
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| AGM |
20th May 2016 |
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| Wooden Astrolabe by Silas Higgon |
20th May 2016 |
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| Maggie Collins talk |
20th Apr 2016 |
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| Jupiter and the GRS |
20th Apr 2016 |
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| Jupiter with Io, GRS just disappearing. |
31st Mar 2016 |
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| Seven Moons by Bob Mizon |
24th Mar 2016 |
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| Feb 25th "Looking at the Atmospheres of Extra-solar Planets" |
20th Feb 2016 |
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| A Horologium nocturnum, educational model of an ancient chronometer |
20th Feb 2016 |
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| Cosmology Lecture, Thursday January 28th |
29th Jan 2016 |
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| Comet Catalena binocular observation |
20th Jan 2016 |
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| Bradford Robotic telescope galaxy images |
20th Jan 2016 |
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| Article on Astrocrop, registering and precise cropping software |
20th Dec 2015 |
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| This Wonderful World and Universe |
26th Nov 2015 |
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| Lecture on Solar-Terrestrial interactions, and the Autumn Night Sky |
20th Nov 2015 |
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| Star Party at Glyncorrwg Ponds Mountain Bike Centre |
31st Oct 2015 |
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| Star Party at Glyncorrwg Ponds Visitor's centre, Dark Sky Discovery site on October 30th |
20th Oct 2015 |
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| M57 and M27 with a Celestron SCT 9.25 AVX and an Orion Starshoot G3 Colour CCD camera |
20th Aug 2015 |
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| A date for your diary |
20th Jul 2015 |
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| Two short talks tonight (Thursday, April 10th) |
20th Apr 2015 |
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| Gallery of Swansea Astronomical Society astronomical images on the South Wales Evening Post Website |
20th Apr 2015 |
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| Feature on Swansea Astronomical Society astronomical imaging in the South Wales Evening Post |
20th Apr 2015 |
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| Partial solar eclipse from the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea and an evening Star party |
20th Mar 2015 |
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| Ring around the 99% waxing, gibbous Moon |
20th Feb 2015 |
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| Mars/Venus conjunction |
20th Feb 2015 |
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| Venus, Mars, Moon conjunction |
20th Feb 2015 |
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| Buy and sell |
20th Feb 2015 |
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| Astronomy Day at the National Museum of Wales, |
20th Jan 2015 |
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| Sunspots and the weather |
20th Jan 2015 |
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| M42 with a 9.25" SCT and M99, M101, NGC 1514, NGC 1560 with the Bradford Robotic telescope |
20th Dec 2014 |
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| 65% waxing, gibbous Moon and some detail |
20th Nov 2014 |
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| Another look at Henry the Space Cadet children's stories |
20th Nov 2014 |
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| Star party that wasn't |
1st Nov 2014 |
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| The Sun in white light with a bridge camera |
20th Oct 2014 |
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| NLC, Venus rising, 29% waning crescent Moon and a Sun with very few spots |
20th Jul 2014 |
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| AR2021 with a bridge camera |
20th Apr 2014 |
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| The Moon and the Plough with a Bridge camera |
20th Apr 2014 |
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| Large sunspot rotating into view |
20th Jan 2014 |
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| Supernova SN 2014J in M82 |
20th Jan 2014 |
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| A 51% waxing, gibbous Moon |
20th Dec 2013 |
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| 72% and 74% Waxing, Gibbous Moon |
20th Dec 2013 |
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| 89% waxing,gibbous Moon with a Bridge camera |
20th Dec 2013 |
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| 95% waxing, gibbous Moon with a Bridge camera |
20th Dec 2013 |
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| Recording the Sun with a Bridge camera |
20th Dec 2013 |
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| 97% Moon with a Bridge camera |
20th Dec 2013 |
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| 95% waning, gibbous Moon with a difference |
20th Dec 2013 |
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| 90% waning gibbous Moon with a Bridge camera |
20th Nov 2013 |
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| 64% waning gibbous Moon with a Bridge camera |
20th Nov 2013 |
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| 55% waning, gibbous Moon with a Bridge camera |
20th Nov 2013 |
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| Giant Molecular clouds |
20th Nov 2013 |
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| Save the Sky at Night by complaining directly to the BBC as well as signing the online petition |
3rd Oct 2013 |
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| Keep the Sky at Night |
20th Sep 2013 |
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| 78%full, waning gibbous Moon with a QHY 5-11 CMOS camera |
2nd Sep 2013 |
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| Full Moon with a bridge camera |
20th Aug 2013 |
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| 89% waning, gibbous Moon |
20th Aug 2013 |
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| New Years 87% waning, gibbous Moon |
20th Jan 2013 |
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| Star Party at the National Botanic Garden of Wales |
20th Nov 2012 |
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| Star Party at Lliw Reservoir |
13th Oct 2012 |
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| Help get International Dark Sky Status for the Brecon Beacons |
6th Sep 2012 |
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| August 18 and 19, Solar Days at the Waterfront Museum Swansea |
19th Aug 2012 |
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| Of Broom Stars, Small Moons and Rings |
20th Mar 2012 |
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| Star Party at the National Botanic Garden for Wales |
20th Feb 2012 |
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| Advanced notice of a Star Party at Craig-y-nos country park on Friday January 27th |
20th Dec 2011 |
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| Astronomy Course in Swansea Starts Jan 11, 2012 |
6th Dec 2011 |
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| SAS Meet and Greet at Waterstones in Swansea |
20th Nov 2011 |
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| A wireless PA system for the Swansea Astronomical Society |
1st Oct 2011 |
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| Astronomy Course in Swansea Starts Oct 5 |
16th Sep 2011 |
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| SAS representatives attend the opening of the Usk Astronomical Society new observatory |
20th May 2011 |
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| Saturn and the Seeliger effect |
20th Apr 2011 |
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| Star Party at Swansea Airport Friday March 11th |
12th Mar 2011 |
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| Star Party Despite the rain |
13th Feb 2011 |
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| Some aspects of Particle Physics talk |
20th Jan 2011 |
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| Heads up. More items on the SAS buy & sell page |
20th Jan 2011 |
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| Open Evening at Swansea Airport in association with BBC Stargazing Live |
15th Jan 2011 |
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| Meeting the public at Waterstone's Swansea |
8th Jan 2011 |
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| Andrew Sprott's astronomical software in 2010 |
20th Dec 2010 |
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| The Christmas Lecture of the Swansea Astronomical Society |
20th Dec 2010 |
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| Sir Isaac Remembers. A one man play starring Prof Mike Edmunds |
20th Dec 2010 |
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| The Ghost of a once great Observatory |
3rd Nov 2010 |
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| Gower Golf Club |
20th Jun 2010 |
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| Prominences and a tiny sunspot |
21st May 2010 |
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| Neptune, a calculated guess |
20th May 2010 |
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| The Moon 23/04/10 |
20th Apr 2010 |
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| An update on what's going on at CERN |
20th Apr 2010 |
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| Fine Solar Prominence and Saturn |
12th Apr 2010 |
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| Globular cluster and Saturn |
9th Apr 2010 |
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| Solar Image with a 1/2" Chip Monochrome Mintron and an afocal image with a compact camera |
8th Apr 2010 |
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| Solar Activity on April 7 |
7th Apr 2010 |
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| Saturn with an Omega 1/2 inch chip colour Mintron video camera |
1st Apr 2010 |
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| My first attempts to image Mars |
20th Mar 2010 |
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| Saturn |
20th Mar 2010 |
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| In Search of the Northern Lights |
20th Mar 2010 |
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| Weekend observing at the Fairwood Observatory |
8th Mar 2010 |
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| Planetary Images from last night |
2nd Mar 2010 |
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| Leaving Marina Towers |
27th Feb 2010 |
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| Mars |
20th Feb 2010 |
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| BBC website |
20th Feb 2010 |
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| More Mars |
20th Feb 2010 |
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| Saturn Images |
12th Feb 2010 |
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| Assorted astrophotography |
10th Feb 2010 |
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| Sunspots |
6th Feb 2010 |
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| Fairwood 29th Jan |
1st Feb 2010 |
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| White Light sunspot images |
28th Jan 2010 |
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| Sunspots |
24th Jan 2010 |
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| Star Party at National Botanic Garden of Wales |
23rd Jan 2010 |
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| Images from 7th January 2010 |
20th Jan 2010 |
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| Developing a colour camera for deep sky Astrovideography |
20th Jan 2010 |
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| The Copernican Revolution |
20th Jan 2010 |
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| Mars and the Moon |
2nd Jan 2010 |
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