Welcome to the home website of the Gwynedd Astronomical Society. Meetings are held on the 1st Thursday of every month in the Brambell Building of Bangor University in Deiniol Road in Bangor at 7.30pm. Parking is available at the back of the building. Please do not park in ASDA's car park as you are liable to receive a parking fine.
Croeso i wefan Cymdeithas Seryddol Gwynedd. Cynhelir cyfarfodydd ar Nos Iau gyntaf pob mis yn adeilad Brambell Prifysgol Bangor yn Ffordd Deiniol, Bangor am 7.30. Mae llefydd parcio ar gael tu cefn i'r adeilad. Os gwelwch yn dda, peidiwch รข pharcio ym maes parcio ASDA oherwydd rydych yn debygol o dderbyn dirwy parcio ganddynt.
Contact us now! Davyth Fear, Brwynog, Ffordd yr Orsaf, Llanrug, Gwynedd LL55 4AG (01286) 672882
A member of the Society will be at the Main Entrance to guide you to the room.
Bydd aelod o'r Gymdeithas ger y Prif Fynedfa i'ch tywys i'r ystafell.
LECTURES 2018
Jan D Fear Names, stars and galaxies
Feb A Bant The post-processing of monochrome images
Mar meeting cancelled due to adverse weather
Apr N Ahmed Gravity without the Bullock
May D Froebrich HOYS-CAPS - A citizen science project for amateur astronomers
Jun D Jones How Spirit rover got to Mars - video
D Jones New evidence for stars formation 250 million years after the Big Bang
P Hayman A visit to the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona
C Morris Norman Lockyer and Sidmouth
N Ahmed NASA spots an asteroid on a crash course with Earth
N Ahmed An image of the Western Veil Nebula (Witch's Broom)
Jul D Fear [1] Future space telescopes
[2] Undae - dunes in the Solar System
Sep J Mithan Comet 21P/Giabocini-Zinner and comet naming
G Williams The chances of finding extra-terrestrial life
N Ahmed Delta IV rocket
C Morris reminiscences of past lectures
Oct R Wynn [1] NASA's master space technicians (Jerry Nelson and Joseph Schmitt)
[2] new results from Cassini regarding the history of Saturn's moons and rings
[3] the expanding scope of exoplanet investigations TESS and TRAPPIST-1
Nov D Fear Victor Anestin et al - Romanian astronomy
Dec C Morris A selection of old 35mm slides
2019
Jan J Mithan The transits of Venus 1761 and 1769
Feb N Ahmed Finding needles in a haystack - navigating the celestial sphere
Mar N Brown tba
Apr P Hayman Meteor Crater and cratering
May G Williams Gravity
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