SEPTEMBER 2024 TALK
Our guest speaker for September was Paul Fellows, MA FIET FRAS who presented a talk in the Quarry on The Winchcombe Meteorite.
AUGUST 2024 TALK
Our August 2024 talk was a multi-member event and the last in our summer section of short member presentations. Bob Wickens spoke about Meteorites, Dawn Sexton presented Features in the Sky and Peter Hudson spoke about The Sun.
JULY 2024 TALK
July saw another of our summer members talks from Phil Schneider
30 inch UPDATE
UPDATE on the 30 inch … which has had its first light at its new home in La Palma. This weekend (July 6), it has afforded excellent views of M22, The Lagoon, Trifid and M57. But it now seems a taller ladder is required to get more of those higher objects !
JUNE 2024 TALK
Our June monthly talk saw not one but two specialists from the Open University. First, Dr Rachael Hamp spoke about the “Icy Moons of Saturn” then Dr Peter Peter Fawdon updated us on the “Exo Mars Mission“.
BBC SKY AT NIGHT RETURNS
Making a return to Bedford School for the first of two segments in the BBC Sky at Night, Pete Lawrence was recording at the observatory in May. Viewers in the UK can catch his piece at the end of June’s edition via this link : https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002053k/the-sky-at-night-cosmic-ghosts
MAY 2024 TALK
Continuing our Quarry Theatre talks, we welcomed Dr Peter Grimley who presented a talk on “The High Energy Universe”. Covering the scattering of energy by the atmosphere and the techniques for measuring the captures particles.
APRIL 2024 TALK
We are delighted to be able to hold some of our talks in the Quarry Theatre and the first of those saw Peter Goodhew present “Imaging Planetary Nebula“. With some stunning new images never before seen in the public domain, Peter explained how these were captured and the science contained in their colour. Peter’s talk […]
MARCH 2024 TALK
For the final talk in the Old Theatre at Bedford School, our own Phil Schneider talked about “Unistellar Telescopes & Citizen Science“. Phil kindly bought along his own Unistellar imaging telescope to allow us to see for ourselves this remarkable piece of equipment along with some stunning images he had taken with it.
FEBRUARY 2024 TALK
Professor James Hough talked on “Comets and the Rosetta Mission”. Focussing on the story of ESA’s Rosetta 10 year journey, which was the first to rendezvous with a comet, the first to follow a comet on its orbit around the Sun, and the first to deploy a lander to a comet’s surface with Philae lander. […]