Welcome
Welcome
• Email group – [email protected]• Website: brightonastro.com• Twitter: @astrobrighton• Facebook: facebook.com/brightonastro• Flyers and posters• Spread the word!
Agenda
• Intro• Space News!• Astrophotography Talk – Gordon Laing• Try out VR• Pub / maybe telescopes
Announcements & Events
Brighton Astro Dates
• Usually – last Tuesday of the month• Tues 28th March - Gareth, Neutron Stars• Tues 25th April - Group astrophotography show&tell• Tues 30th May - Ciaran Fairhurst, "Detecting the most
distant galaxies"• Tues 27th June - Daniel Moinar, “galaxy evolution”• Tues 25th July - Unconfirmed
• Sept 5 – 9 2017
• Co hosted by Uni of Sussex & Brighton Uni
• Brighton Astro planning a “Beach hut astronomy” event
Clusters of Galaxies: The Shy Giants of the CosmosWednesday 8 March 18:30 until 20:00
Sussex University Talks
Directly Imaging Exoplanets
Event Horizon Telescope
NASA’s maiden Space Launch System rocket flightNow MAY be manned instead of unmanned. Original plan was for mission to loop around the moon, so chance could now be sending humans back around the moon for first time in about 40 years! As early as 2019.
Space X
JUNO’s troubles
JUNO’s troubles