Society Meetings – Regular Venue
SPA meetings are held on the last Saturday of January, April, July and October in the Khalili Lecture Theatre of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG. Members and their friends are welcome, and entry is free of charge. Members should please remember to bring their membership cards or a copy of Popular Astronomy.
When you enter the SOAS building, please sign in as a visitor to the university at the reception desk, where you will be given a visitor sticker which you should keep visible, adn go through the entry gate. The lecture theatre is downstairs – look for the SPA signs. We also have our own signing-in book before you enter the lecture theatre.
Meetings start at 2.00pm and last until 5.00pm, including a break for refreshments. The first section is generally taken up by a talk from a guest speaker, while the second has shorter items on current astronomical events, and reports from sections.
When you leave Russell Square station, turn left and cross the road straight away. SOAS is on the far corner of Russell Square. Use the entrance marked, which is opposite the Brunei Gallery. Meeting videos |
Forthcoming meetings
Saturday 28 April 2012, 2 pm
Khalili Lecture Theatre of the School of Oriental and African Studies. The main speaker will be Prof Mike Cruise (University of Birmingham) on How to Hear Black Holes.
Additional speakers will include Robin Scagell on the season's night skies and Tony Sizer on Transits of Venus, in readiness for the forthcoming event on 6 June.
Saturday 21 July 2012, 2 pm
Khalili Lecture Theatre of the School of Oriental and African Studies.
The main speaker will be Dr Paul Roche (University of Glamorgan) on The Universe in the Classroom: Robotic Astronomy in the 21st Century
Among additional speakers, Robin Scagell will talk about the coming season's highlights in the sky
Please note that this meeting is not on the usual last Saturday of the month, in order to avoid congestion as a result of the London Olympic Games.
Saturday 27 October 2012, 2 pm
Today's main speaker will be Dr Leigh Fletcher (University of Oxford) on Strange Weather! Exploring the Giant Planets of our Solar System.
As well as Robin Scagell's roundup of events to look forward to in the autumn skies, Ian Morison, the SPA's Instruments Adviser, will be discussing a perennial chestnut when choosing a telescope: Reflector or Refractor?
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