Wakefield and District Astronomical Society
Prof Brad Gibson returns once again to fill a void with another fascinating lecture... this time, the topic du jour will be Liquid Mirror Telescopes: The Wave of the Future …
Paul joins us from the University of Sheffield (where he wears the crown of HoD and Professor of Astrophysics) to give us an overview of massive stars, from the birth …
The Moon is a shy body, it only ever shows one sides of itself to the Earth. Before the space age, we had no idea what was on the far …
Dr Sergei Zharkov joins us from the E.A.Milne Centre for Astrophysics to talk about the Solar Interior... beginning with a general introduction to the Sun and solar activity, highlighting the links …
Paul L Money FRAS, FBIS, is well known for his extensive talks and is the reviews editor of the BBC Sky at Night magazine. He broadcasts occasionally on BBC Radio Lincolnshire …
President of Huddersfield Astronomical and Philosophical Society, and Director of the Huddersfield Observatory, Robert A Williams joins WADAS to deliver his talk entitled "Nucleosynthesis - crucible of the Elements", celebrating …
Find out why comets and asteroids are really more like big dusty snowballs and how they act as a "mobile chemistry lab" in space with with Dr. David Benoit (Senior …
As is traditional, quizmaster Soupy will present his annual Astronomical Christmas Quiz... with goodies to be won! Swot up on your SciFi Theme Tunes, Satellites, EV Silhouettes, Constellations, and AstroTrivia!
The WADAS Annual General Meeting, where committee posts are up for grabs...!! Rough agenda: Chair's Report Vote of thanks Committee elections Treasurer's Report Future Events AOB
The first thursday of the month is our Society Members-Only Club Night... a social gathering for the sharing of hints, tips & experiences.
Have we been visited before? Are they out there watching… listening… studying us? Brad Gibson (Head of Physics and Director of the E.A. Milne Centre for Astrophysics at the University …
The first thursday of the month is our Society Members-Only Club Night... a social gathering for the sharing of hints, tips & experiences.
Dr Richard Parker is an astrophysicist based at the University of Sheffield and since 2017 has held a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin research fellowship, following previous post-doctoral research positions at ETH …
The first thursday of the month is our Society Members-Only Club Night... a social gathering for the sharing of hints, tips & experiences.
**SOLD OUT - Sorry!** Ever looked up at a star-lit sky and wondered about the stories of the stars above? Well now is your chance to find out more! Join …
The first thursday of the month is our Society Members-Only Club Night... a social gathering for the sharing of hints, tips & experiences.
Gravitational waves are disturbances in the curvature of spacetime, generated by accelerated masses, that propagate as waves outward from their source at the speed of light. Now that humanity is …
The first thursday of the month is our Society Members-Only Club Night... a social gathering for the sharing of hints, tips & experiences.
Dr. Walsh and her colleagues make use of a relatively new technology called the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array, or ALMA for short, which uses the collective view of multiple powerful …
The first thursday of the month is our Society Members-Only Club Night... a social gathering for the sharing of hints, tips & experiences.
