Our Chairman Mark Holmes will give June’s talk. His topic is “The furnace in which we were all forged – Stars, the creative engines of the Universe!”
A star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (image taken from Wikipedia)
Image taken by Mark on 27th May 2023 using 17mm eyepiece projection/Mylar through the mighty 60mm Nutellascope.
Richard Bullock from Altrincham & District Astronomical Society will give a talk on “The Outer Planets: Uranus and Neptune”.
Jamie Gilmore from the University of Manchester will give a talk on “Meteorites and the Early Solar System”
Jamie is Professor of Planetary Science at the University of Manchester. His personal research involves studying the composition of xenon gas trapped in extra-terrestrial material to understand the formation and evolution of the solar system and the bodies within it.
This talk will include an introduction to meteorites and some of the things that have been learned about the solar system by studying them
Dr. Steve Barrett from the University of Liverpool gave two short presentations:
Just a Second – What is a second, what can happen in one second, and why do we need leap seconds?
Ancient Light – The Universe is vast and ancient. Large telescopes have imaged galaxies that are billions of light-years distant. Is it possible to capture an image of one of these very remote objects without a telescope?