For the second year running, volunteers from the Flamsteed Astronomy Society helped to organise and run the premier London event for BBC Stargazing Live. This year, we were situated in the National Maritime Museum and had almost double the number of attendees in comparison to last year‘s event at Charlton House. Over 40 Flamsteed volunteers […]
Report by Mike Meynell. Pictures by Grey Lipley and Sumitra Sribhashyam On a freezing December evening, 9 hardy Flamsteed volunteers ran a highly successful stargazing session at the museum members Christmas party. We had been asked to set up a variety of telescopes just outside of the entrance to the Sammy Ofer Wing, so that […]
The Flamsteed had the great pleasure of welcoming Brendan Owens from the Royal Observatory Greenwich for our 2012 Christmas lecture. Flamsteed members enjoyed mince pies and chocolate biscuits with their tea and coffee on arrival, to get into a festive mood. We were also very grateful to the museum for arranging to open the museum […]
by Mike Meynell There are some fabulous objects and events to view in the sky this month: Mercury Venus, Mercury and the Crescent Moon Saturn Jupiter Orion and the Orion Nebula The Moon passing in front of open cluster M67 Geminids meteor shower peaking on 13 December The presentation is shown in the video below. […]
by Grey Lipley Mike Meynell and I have had our first meeting with the BBC to discover what they have planned for Stargazing Live at the NMM/ROG in 2013. The discussion was very informative and extremely positive. While we listened it became apparent that the proposed event is far larger than the one we organised […]
Two solar flares have been detected by the Flamsteed VLF receiver. – M1.7 on 20 November at 12:41UT and M3.5 on 21 November at 15:30UT. Both have been verified using data from the internet including stunning video footage. Both Mike and I were slightly concerned that we might not have enough to talk about at […]
The Flamsteed were treated to a packed evening of entertainment on an otherwise gloomy November evening. First up, Malcolm Porter gave us a quick overview of objects to view in the night sky this month, focusing on a few objects that are slightly more difficult to view in comparison to those presented at our last […]
by Mike Meynell At our lecture on 29 October 2012, we looked at a number of easier objects to view in the night sky: Jupiter Andromeda Galaxy (M31) Pleiades (M45) Double Cluster in Perseus All are still superb targets for binoculars or small telescopes. In this presentation, we will look at some slightly more challenging […]
Jon Butterworth is Professor of Physics at University College London, and a leading member of the High Energy Physics group on the ATLAS experiment at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research). Jon made his first visit to the Flamsteed to talk about the latest discoveries at CERN, focusing primarily on the latest update in the […]
by Mike Meynell At our lecture on 29 October 2012, we looked at a number of easy objects to view in the night sky: Jupiter Andromeda Galaxy (M31) Pleiades (M45) Double Cluster in Perseus All are superb targets for binoculars or small telescopes. The presentation is shown in the video below. Watch it full screen to […]
