Prof Paul Crowther – Massive Stars

The Malt House Bennett Avenue, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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 in rich star forming regions such as the Orion Nebula and the Tarantula Nebula, through their relatively short lifetimes, initially as luminous blue stars through

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Dr Julian Onions: The Far side of the moon

The Malt House Bennett Avenue, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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 side of the Moon. This has led to a number of conspiracy theories that it is a haven for aliens. In this talk, we'll chart

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Dr Sergei Zharkov: Understanding & Predicting the Solar Activity Cycle

The Malt House Bennett Avenue, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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 to space weather. We’ll then delve into our understandings of how such activity is driven, through to our ability to observe and measure processes below

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Paul Money: Vikings at Barsoom (Pt2)

The Malt House Bennett Avenue, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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 and Lincoln City Radio. and has published a night sky guide called Nightscenes since 2000 and more recently has become a novelist with a Ghost Mysteries

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Nucleosynthesis – crucible of the Elements

The Malt House Bennett Avenue, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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 2019 as the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements. This talk covers... A ramble through the elements of the Periodic table showing

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Dr David Benoit – Comets: The Chemistry Lab of the Universe

The Malt House Bennett Avenue, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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 Lecturer in Molecular Physics and Astrochemistry at the E.A. Milne Centre for Astrophysics, University of Hull)... Could our water come from outer-space and has life started by

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Soupy’s Xmas Quiz

The Malt House Bennett Avenue, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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!

WADAS AGM

The Malt House Bennett Avenue, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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

Society Club Night

The Malt House Bennett Avenue, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

The first thursday of the month is our Society Members-Only Club Night... a social gathering for the sharing of hints, tips & experiences.

Are We Alone in the Universe? – Pr Brad Gibson

The Malt House Bennett Avenue, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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 of Hull) will examine the evidence for and against the existence of extraterrestrial life, and walk you through the associated good, bad, and ugly corners

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Society Club Night

The Malt House Bennett Avenue, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

The first thursday of the month is our Society Members-Only Club Night... a social gathering for the sharing of hints, tips & experiences.

[CANCELLED] Dr Richard Parker – Binary Stars and their Influence on Planetary Systems

The Malt House Bennett Avenue, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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 Zurich, Switzerland, and Liverpool John Moores University. His main research interests are in the fields of star and planet formation and he uses computer simulations

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[CANCELLED] Society Club Night

The Malt House Bennett Avenue, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

The first thursday of the month is our Society Members-Only Club Night... a social gathering for the sharing of hints, tips & experiences.

[CANCELLED] Introduction to Astronomy – RSPB St.Aidan’s

RSPB St Aidan's Nature Park Astley Lane, Great Preston, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

**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 us at RSPB St Aidan's for an introduction to astronomy, led by the Wakefield and District Astronomical Society. This beginner's guide will help you learn

[CANCELLED] Society Club Night

The Malt House Bennett Avenue, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

The first thursday of the month is our Society Members-Only Club Night... a social gathering for the sharing of hints, tips & experiences.

[CANCELLED] Dr Sue Bowler – The Promise of Gravitational Waves

The Malt House Bennett Avenue, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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 able to detect these disturbances, what do they tell us about black holes, neutron stars, dark energy, and the fundamental nature of the universe? Dr

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[CANCELLED] Society Club Night

The Malt House Bennett Avenue, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

The first thursday of the month is our Society Members-Only Club Night... a social gathering for the sharing of hints, tips & experiences.

[CANCELLED] ALMA Update – Dr Catherine Walsh

The Malt House Bennett Avenue, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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 telescopes. "It’s a huge instrument. The way that we do this is instead of just one telescope, which has a particular field of view, we

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[CANCELLED] Society Club Night

The Malt House Bennett Avenue, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

The first thursday of the month is our Society Members-Only Club Night... a social gathering for the sharing of hints, tips & experiences.

[CANCELLED] Claire Cashmore – How the Environment Shapes the Evolution of Galaxies

The Malt House Bennett Avenue, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Galaxies come in many shapes and sizes, but the consideration of environment on how these galaxies evolved has often been ignored. Environment is a difficult concept to quantify and the methods used to describe it vary greatly, but the density of a galaxy's surrounding environment can significantly influence the properties of that galaxy. Claire Cashmore,

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