Wakefield and District Astronomical Society
Due to our usual 3rd Thursday of the month failing on St.Patrick's day, we're switching things up this month. Our next meeting is a social at the Waterloo Pub on Westgate, this Thursday (10th March) from 7.30pm. Parking on site.
Dr Marie van de Sande is an astrochemist with a particular interest in molecules and dust around evolved stars. Her research is focussed on developing chemical models for AGB outflows. These aim to explain the rich complexity in current observations and help guide future ones. Their goal is to unravel link between chemistry and dynamics …
Ever looked up at a star-lit sky and wished upon a ‘shooting star’? Well now is your chance to find out more about meteors! Join us for an evening being wowed by the Lyrid meteor shower, led by the Wakefield and District Astronomical Society. This session will give you opportunity to learn about when, how …
Everything around us is made up of chemical elements. But where do these elements come from? The answer: stars. The stars that we observe in the night sky undergo many different processes in order to produce the elements. This talk will give you a whistle stop tour of the different types of stars in the …
It took more than 4 decades to build an observatory that could detect the ripples in spacetime that Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity predicted. In this talk Dr Sue Bowler (University of Leeds) discuss how they do it, why it took quite so long and what the new field of gravitational wave astronomy has to …
Astronomer Chris Lintott explains how you could help astronomers sort through galaxies, explore the surface of Mars, or even discover a planet. This is the story of the Zooniverse, which has enlisted more than two million people in the search for cosmic truth. Using stories drawn from contemporary research, this talk describes their discoveries - …
Our usual 1st-Thursday-of-the-month meeting is a social at the Waterloo Pub on Westgate for society members only, from 7.30pm. Parking on site.
Our usual 1st-Thursday-of-the-month meeting is a social at the Waterloo Pub on Westgate for society members only, from 7.30pm. Parking on site.
Tonight is a meeting for members only to discuss matters around our venue (due to postponement of our planned speaker til June)
Prof Brad Gibson, Director of the E.A. Milne Centre for Astrophysics; The University of Hull, returns to WADAS to introduce us to Polar Astronomy. The harsh and equally stunning landscapes which define the polar regions of Earth are not immediately thought of as being ideal for conducting cutting-edge explorations of the cosmos. Despite the challenges that such …
Our usual Members-only social club night from 7.30pm
Our usual Members-only social club night from 7.30pm
Dr Katharine Johnston from the University of Leeds uses observations taken with radio telescopes such as ALMA in Chile and e-MERLIN based in the UK to understand how massive stars form by being fed material by their surrounding accretion discs Discs have long been theorised to exist around forming stars, but it is only in …
Our usual Members-only social club night from 7.30pm
Greg Cooke, University of Leeds, simulates terrestrial exoplanets and paleo climates and uses these simulations to predict possible future observations of terrestrial exoplanets. Some planets have very different chemical compositions to Earth. For example, some may have more methane and carbon dioxide. Others may have no oxygen, which likely means no ozone and therefore little …
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Ever looked up at a moonlit sky and wished you could see it in all its marvellous detail? Well, now is your chance to learn more about our nearest celestial neighbour; the Moon. Join us at RSPB St Aidan's for an evening discovering all things Lunar. Led by the Wakefield and District Astronomical Society, this …
Our usual Members-only social club night from 7.30pm
Ever looked up at a star-lit sky and wished you knew how to take fantastic pictures of it? Well, now is your chance to find out more about astrophotography! _______________________________________________________________________ This is a series of events making up a full course of astrophotography, with a certificate for completing all three sessions and a small prize …
Dr David Benoit, Senior Lecturer in Molecular Physics and Astrochemistry at Hull University, brings asks the question of ocean worlds: Could there be life under the ice?
