Author: nottinghamastro

The UK experienced a fabulous aurora display last night. Here is some video of the images captured by the Observatory All Sky Camera. You can also see this video on YouTube.

May’s talk will be “SMILE! Revolutionising our views of the Sun-Earth connection”, delivered by Dr Jennifer Carter,

This month our speaker is Professor Anne Green who will be discussing “The search for dark matter”.

Our speaker for March, Professor Nial Tanvir will be anwering “What re-ionised the Universe?”

Our next meeting will be on 01/02/2024. Professor Frazer Pearce will be Placing the Timelords on the Kardashev scale.

Please be aware that our meeting in November will be held at the Nottingham Emmanuel School. More information can be found in the Journal.

Mike Provost has captured this image of the recent nova V1405 Cas.

The nova is in Cassiopeia very close to the Bubble Nebula – NGC 7635. Here’s an image from Leigh Blake taken a few years prior.

Dr Steve Barrett of the University of Liverpool delivers an excellent talk on the Hubble Space Telescope.

We welcome our speaker for June Ian Morison, who will be delivering his talk on “Wonders of the Southern Sky”