Coinciding with the launch of the Flamsteed “History of Astronomy” group, we were delighted to welcome Dr Rebekah Higgitt who is Curator of History of Science and Technology at the Royal Observatory Greenwich & National Maritime Museum. Rebekah came to discuss the role of the Astronomer Royal in the early days of the Greenwich Observatory, […]
The Flamsteed were delighted to welcome Martin Siegert, who is Professor of Geosciences at the University of Bristol. Martin is a glaciologist, which may have left many attendees wondering why he was giving a lecture to an astronomy society! All became clear when Martin explained how he was the principal investigator of the Natural Environmental […]
The Flamsteed were delighted to welcome Dr Suzanne Aigrain, who is a lecturer in Astrophysics at the University of Oxford, and a fellow of All Souls College, specialising in the detection and characterisation of exoplanets. Suzanne first drew our attention to the famous picture of Earth rising over the Moon, taken by astronaut William Anders […]
Dr Francisco Diego is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at University College London. As a keen populariser of astronomy, he was one of the driving forces behind the formation of the Flamsteed Astronomy Society and presented the first lecture back in 1999. Francisco’s lecture showed how unlikely it was for […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
For our first lecture of the 2012/13 season, the Flamsteed were delighted to welcome Dr Radmila Topalovic of the Royal Observatory Greenwich. Though Radmila had never lectured to us before, she was well known to many Flamsteed members, both through her work at the ROG and as tutor of the GCSE Astronomy course. Radmila’s energetic […]
The last meeting of the season With Greenwich moving into Olympic mode, but at the same time, many exciting things taking place such as the Royal River exhibition in the National Maritime Museum, this was a special meeting with three talks given by Flamsteed members as follows:- The Great Melbourne Telescope by Mike Dryland […]
Stuart and Chris enjoy a joke during the debate In front of a packed audience, we were delighted to welcome back two old friends of the society, Dr Chris Lintott and Dr Stuart Clark, for a debate on Dark Matter. Dr Marek Kukula of the Royal Observatory Greenwich, in his second consecutive Flamsteed appearance, […]
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