Meetings - Lectures
Stirling Astronomical Society meets from September to May during the year. Lectures are held generally on the second Friday in each month during that period, beginning at 7.30 p.m. The venue is the lecture room of the Smith Museum and Art Gallery, Dumbarton Road, Stirling.
These meetings are free and anyone with an interest in astronomy is welcome to attend, whether a Member of the Society or not. The current series of lectures is at an end for the summer break. Lectures will start again in September.
2009 / 2010 Public Lecture Syllabus
11th September 2009
Speaker - Alice-Amanda Kay, Clydesdale Astronomical Society
Title - "Volcanoes of the Solar System"
9th October 2009
Speaker - Mark Butterworth, Stirling Astronomical Society
Title - "Mapping the Moon"
13th November 2009
AGM and two short talks by Society members.
Alex Houston - Creating a presentation for future Society Events
John Moffat - "Spacesuits, fiction, fact & sexy!"
11th December 2009
Speaker - Derek Banks, Stirling Astronomical Society
Title - "Star trails - gimmick or potential for a new serious branch of amateur astronomy? - images please"
8th January 2010
Speaker - John Moffat, Stirling Astronomical Society
Title - "The Moon"
12th Febuary 2010
Speaker - Duncan Lunan, Author
Title - "Planetary Engineering and Terraforming"
12th March 2010
Speaker - Alan Cayless, Stirling Astronomical Society
Title - "Secrets of the Aurora"
9th April 2010
Speaker - Martin Hendry, University of Glasgow, Astronomy and Astrophysics Group
Title - "Einstein's cosmic laboratories: probing the universe with supermassive black holes"
14th May 2010
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