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July 2019
Members’ Solar Observing at the Royal Observatory Greenwich – CONFIRMED ON
Solar Viewing THIS EVENT IS CONFIRMED ON We will be running an evening solar observing session for Flamsteed Members only at the Royal Observatory Greenwich on Tuesday 16th July from 6.30pm to 8.30pm. We will be setting up in the Meridian Courtyard. Members should book for this event in advance and meet by the General Wolfe statue in Greenwich Park at 6.30pm to gain entry to the Royal Observatory. As with all observing events, this session is weather permitting and…
Find out more »Members’ Solar Observing at the Royal Observatory Greenwich
Solar Viewing We will be running an evening solar observing session for Flamsteed Members only at the Royal Observatory Greenwich on Tuesday 30th July from 6.30pm to 8.30pm. We will be setting up in the Meridian Courtyard. Members should book for this event in advance and meet by the General Wolfe statue in Greenwich Park at 6.30pm to gain entry to the Royal Observatory. As with all observing events, this session is weather permitting and a ‘go/no-go’ message will be…
Find out more »September 2019
A Planet Not Our Own: The Strange Worlds of Exoplanets by Dr Elizabeth Tasker and Flamsteed AGM
We thought we understood the planets of our Solar System until we discovered new worlds beyond our own Sun. Planets the size of Jupiter with orbits completed in Earth days, planets with two suns in the sky and others with seas of tar or endless oceans. How did these worlds form, how did we find them and could any of these discoveries be at all like our own Earth? Elizabeth Tasker is an astrophysicist and science communicator at Japan’s space…
Find out more »Romney Observing Evening: 29 September 2019
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO POOR WEATHER
Find out more »October 2019
Catching Gravitational Waves and Light from Colliding Stars by Professor Ofer Lahav
Einstein’s gravitational waves and light produced by the same event – a pair of neutron stars – were detected for the first time in August 2017, an extraordinary moment in the history of physics. The lecture will explain what gravitational waves are, and how they were discovered by the LIGO collaboration, initially for systems of binary black holes. We will then describe how optical flashes were detected in the case of the binary neutron star merger by the Dark Energy…
Find out more »Curator-guided Tour of RMG’s The Moon Exhibition
The Royal Museum Greenwich exhibition The Moon has been attracting critical acclaim. It charts the cultural and scientific story of our relationship with the Moon, featuring more than 180 objects, including artefacts from Apollo 11. Flamsteed members have a unique opportunity to see this exhibition, guided by Louise Devoy, one of the RMG curators responsible for this excellent show. Places are limited and only open to Flamsteed members.
Find out more »Romney Observing Evening: 27 or 28 October 2019 – CANCELLED
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO POOR WEATHER
Find out more »November 2019
Viewing with the Great Equatorial Telescope
Flamsteed viewing session with the Great Equatorial Telescope at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. Bookings are restricted to members only. Depending on numbers, we may be able to accommodate guests but we won’t know until much nearer the date. These Flamsteed sessions are free to members but places are limited and advance booking is essential. If you would like a place, please contact us as soon as possible. Use of the telescope is of course weather-permitting. If we are unable to…
Find out more »Gaia – Mapping the Milky Way from Space, by Prof. Gerry Gilmore
Astrometry from space has unique advantages over ground-based observations: it offers all-sky coverage, while the relatively stable and temperature- and gravity-invariant operating environment delivers precision, accuracy and sample volume several orders of magnitude greater than ground-based results. Even more importantly, absolute astrometry is possible. The European Space Agency Cornerstone mission Gaia is delivering that promise. Gaia provides 5-D phase space measurements – 3 spatial coordinates and two space motions in the plane of the sky, for a representative sample of…
Find out more »Curator-guided Tour of RMG’s The Moon Exhibition
The Royal Museum Greenwich exhibition The Moon has been attracting critical acclaim. It charts the cultural and scientific story of our relationship with the Moon, featuring more than 180 objects, including artefacts from Apollo 11. Flamsteed members have a unique opportunity to see this exhibition, guided by one of the RMG curators responsible for this excellent show. Places are limited and only open to Flamsteed members.
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