16/06/2023 – 7:30pm – Speaker Professor David Bacon. Observational cosmology – an update Another opportunity to hear from one of our favourite speakers, Professor David Bacon from University of Portsmouth. David is Associate Director of the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation. His research interests include cosmology at radio wavelengths, gravitational lensing, theories of gravity. In this […]
09/12/2022 – Speaker Martin Ong on “The Dark Forest”. Considers the apparent conflict between our high estimates for the number of planets that could support life, both in the Milky Way and the Universe as a whole, but a total lack of clear, obvious evidence that such life exists. It raises the question as to
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Just before Christmas several members of the society installed the long-awaited observatory at Copthorne Prep School, next to the playing fields. Copthorne Prep is considering offering Astronomy at GCSE level and of course we are keen that they should. We are holding a joint meeting with the school next month to work out our longer-term
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