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LIVERPOOL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
LECTURE PROGRAM FOR THE SESSION 1999-2000.



Meetings and Lectures at the Pex Hill Observatory Click Here Please.


SUMMER LECTURES FOR 1999


  • JUNE 1999
      Venue/Dates/Speakers and Subjects to be confirmed.

  • JULY 1999
      28th: Dr Eric Jones - "Chasing The Moon's Shadow" - Special Ticket Only Public Lecture at Liverpool University.
  • AUGUST 1999
      Venue/Dates/Speakers and Subjects to be confirmed.
  • SEPTEMBER 1999
      : Venue/Dates/Speakers and Subjects to be confirmed.

    Society Monthly Meetings and Events for Session 1999/2000

    DATE

    EVENT & VENUE

    SPEAKER

    LECTURE TITLE

    1999

    Every Week on Thursday between 7pm - late.
    (No Meeting Between
    Christmas & New Year)

    Upstairs Meeting Room
    Ship & Mitre Public House.

    Details From Director of Observatory
    Mr Geoff Regan
    0151-292-7165.

    		Meetings continue at NMGM Liverpool Museum
    Until further notice.


    Friday September 17th

    Monthly Meeting and Cheese & Wine Reception
    Crypt Concert Room -
    The RC Metropolitan Catherdral
    Car Park Entrance, Mount Pleasant
    Liverpool
    at 7pm - 9pm

    Presidential Address
    Members of Society

    Eclipse'99 Reports

    William Lassell 1799 - 1880.


    Friday October 15th

    12th William LassellMemorial Lecture
    Crypt Concert Room -
    The RC Metropolitan Catherdral
    Car Park Entrance, Mount Pleasant.
    Liverpool
    at 7pm - 9pm

    Dr Allan Chapman, MA,D.Phil.,F.R.A.S.
    Wadham College, Oxford University.

    Isaac Roberts and the Origins of deep-sky Photography.


    Saturday October 16th

    400 Years of Astronomy on Merseyside
    One day History Conference.
    NMGM Liverpool Martime Museum.
    Albert Dock, Liverpool.
    9:30am - 5:30pm.

    Dr Allan Chapman, Dr Partick Moore,
    and many others.

    Astronomical History in Liverpool.


    Friday November 19th

    Monthly Meeting
    Crypt Concert Room -
    The RC Metroplitan Cathedral
    Car Park Entrance, Mount Pleasant
    Liverpool
    at 7pm - 9pm.

    Prof F.Richard Stephenson
    The University of Durham.

    Oriental Star Maps & Historical Supernovae.

    Wednesday December 8th
    NOT FRIDAY!

    Monthly meeting
    Members Short Papers Night
    Crypt Concert Room -
    The RC Metropolitan Catherdral
    Car Park Entrance, Mount Pleasant.
    Liverpool
    at 7pm - 9pm.

    Members of Liverpool A.S.

    Members Observations and Research Presentations.

    2000

    (© Manchester A.S.)

    FRIDAY January 21st

    Monthly meeting
    Crypt Concert Room -
    The RC Metroplitan Cathedral
    Car Park Entrance, Mount Pleasant
    Liverpool
    at 7pm - 9pm.

    Mr Kevin Kilburn
    Manchester Astronomical Society.

    The Uranographia Britannica Star Atlas


    SATURDAY 12th & SUNDAY 13th February

    WEEKEND ASTRONOMY STAR PARTY
    Croxteth Hall & Park

    DETAILS HERE.

    		*****

    FRIDAY February 18th

    Monthly meeting
    Crypt Concert Room - The RC Metroplitan Cathedral
    Car Park Entrance, Mount Pleasent, Liverpool.
    at 7pm - 9pm.

    Mr Rod Hine
    Bradford Astronomical Society.

    Let There be Light - The History of Optics.

    FRIDAY March 17th

    Monthly meeting
    Crypt Concert Room - The RC Metroplitan Cathedral
    Car Park Entrance, Mount Pleasent, Liverpool.
    at 7pm - 9pm

    Mr Phil Barker
    The British Interplanetary Society.

    The Russian Space Programme

    FRIDAY April 14th
    (2nd Friday)

    Monthly meeting
    Crypt Concert Room - The RC Metroplitan Cathedral
    Car Park Entrance, Mount Pleasent, Liverpool.
    at 7pm - 9pm.

    Mr Andy Salmon
    Birmingham Astronomical Society.

    Space Station ISS

    FRIDAY May 19th

    1999 - 2000 Annual General Meeting
    Crypt Concert Room - The RC Metroplitan Cathedral
    Car Park Entrance, Mount Pleasent, Liverpool.
    at 7pm - 9pm

    No formal Lecture

    AGM will be followed by LAS members observational images & reports.


    For more information on the Society please contact:

    Liverpool A.S. Hon Secretary
    Mr Ken Clarke
    31 Sandmount Drive, Wallasey
    Wirral, CH45 0LJ.

    Tel: 0151- 638 3270.


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