Syllabus 2004-2005

September 23rd 2004
Dr. Ian Griffin
(Director of the Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester)
(Formerly: The Head of the Office of Public Outreach for NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope)
"Observing Solar System Objects with the Hubble Space telescope"

October 21st 2004
The Zdenek Kopal Memorial Lecture
Dr Philippa Browning
(Department of Physics, The University of Manchester)
"Our Active Sun"

November 18th 2004
Dr Richard de Grijs
(Lecturer in Astrophysics - Department of Physics and Astronomy,
The University of Sheffield)
"A Recipe For Galaxy Soup: When Galaxies Collide"

December 16th 2004
The Presidential Lecture
Graham Hodson, F.R.A.S.
"Impacts and Impact"
Held in the Godlee Observatory, Sackville Building, The University of Manchester [North Campus]

January 20th 2005
Dr. Myfanwy Bryce
(Jodrell Bank Observatory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Manchester)
"The Life of Stars"

February 17th 2005
David Strange
(Worth Hill Observatory, Dorset)
"Amateur Observations of Quasar Anomalies"

March 17th 2005
Phil Rosenberg
(Open University)
"The Cassini Mission"

28th April 2005 - 7.45 pm prompt
Annual General Meeting
Held in the Godlee Observatory, Sackville Building, The University of Manchester [North Campus]