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Hello fellow stargazers,
Our next monthly meeting on Friday 18th October is our annual AGM!
We will be providing Zoom access to the meeting for our members who can’t make it in person, see details below.
This is when we come together and discuss what we hope to do in the coming 12 months and select a new committee. It’s very important that as many of you as possible attend our AGM so you can have a voice in the planning for the coming year! It’s your Society/Club, not the committee’s!  The process is that the current committee will all step down and we are keen to see some new faces on the committee. So if anyone else would like to volunteer for any of the Society’s roles:
- Chair,
- Treasurer
- Secretary
- Outreach Secretary
- Programme Secretary
- Social Media and Webmaster
- Membership Secretary
… now is the time to say so!
I welcome ideas you may have for outreach to friends, family and the wider public, ways of increasing our membership, increasing attendance at our meetings and fund-raising!
The Speaker tonight is our very own Kabir Jami.
Kabir will be giving us two short talks about interstellar travel and Dyson Spheres.
Interstellar Travel
Interstellar travel is the travel of spacecraft between star systems. Due to the vast distances between the Sun and nearby stars, interstellar travel is not practicable with current propulsion technologies. Proposed future technologies varies from slow, uncrewed probes to fast, crewed missions. In this presentation we will explore some of the probable solutions.
Dyson Spheres
A Dyson sphere is a hypothetical megastructure that encompasses a star and captures a large percentage of its solar power output. The first modern imagining of such a structure was by Olaf Stapledon in his science fiction novel Star Maker. The concept was later explored by the physicist Freeman Dyson in his 1960 paper “Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation”. In this presentation we will explore the concept of a Dyson sphere and it’s possible use in finding other intelligent beings.
And as always, it’s an opportunity to discuss what’s on your mind astro-wise and chat to other members.
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