Stuart found it very apt that he was delivering the Flamsteed’s first lecture of IYA2009, in the 150th anniversary year of the main events in his story, and in the very place which formed the centre of an important piece of the action. In 1859 a leading Victorian astronomer, Richard Carrington, was observing and sketching […]
On Monday 1st December, the dignified hallows of the Peter Harrison Planetarium lobby echoed to the happy sounds of some sixty members of the Flamsteed Society, together with distinguished guests from the Observatory, as they gathered to celebrate the Society’s 9th Christmas. The evening commenced with wine and nibbles served from tables groaning under the […]
Nik Szymanek talked to us about astro imaging. Nik is Britain’s leading amateur astrophotography expert. His images are fabulous. The great growth of interest in amateur astronomy owes much to the ‘shock and awe’ of images like those from the Hubble Space Telescope and the work of Nik and others. Nik spoke at length both […]
In the year 1900, after a storm, sponge divers found the wreck of an ancient ship off the island of Antikythera in the Mediterranean. The wreck was notable for its hoard of statues and other articles dated to 100BC. Much was salvaged in 1900-1. The ship may have been sailing from Rhodes to Italy. Found among the […]
Alan Longstaff is a fiercely clever polymath. (He says ‘Jack-of-all trades’ — too modest!). He’s well known to many Flamsteeders via his excellent astronomy GCSE adult classes at the ROG, and to a much wider readership from his ‘Ask Alan’ column in Astronomy Now. Alan is fluent in astronomy, biology, and geology to mention but three! And […]
