Author Archives: AstroSoc

Professor David Southwood  is the former director of science at the European Space Agency, and the current president of the Royal Aeronautical Society. He is a Senior Research investigator at Imperial College London and former Director of Science and Robotic Exploration … Continue reading →

Hi everyone, Unfortunately the decision has been made by the committee to cancel this evenings planned observation due to poor weather conditions. We are hoping to reschedule for when conditions are a little more favorable as we have two brand new telescopes and ten pairs of … Continue reading →

Hi again everyone, Unfortunately our guest speaker, Dr. Pritchard, has let us know that he is too ill to hold his lecture tomorrow however we will endeavor to try and reschedule this event as soon as possible so that as many people … Continue reading →

Hi Everyone! Dr. Jonathan Pritchard, a researcher and lecturer in cosmology at Imperial, will be giving a talk on his research entitled ‘Illuminating the cosmic dark ages with the square kilometre array’. Summary: Do you know when the first galaxies … Continue reading →

Hi everyone, Just to remind you of a few things we have planned for next week. (1) On Monday (11th) we have an observation planned! We will be looking at some of our nearest celestial neighbours during this months new moon. … Continue reading →

It pains us to have to do this but once again we have had no choice but to cancel this evenings planned lunar observation due to very low visibility. Don’t be down though, as Astrosoc will endeavor to organise more observations so … Continue reading →

I hope everyone enjoyed the trip to the Greenwich Royal Observatory yesterday! I just want to remind everyone of our Lunar/Planetary observation planned for tomorrow (28th Jan). The observation will begin at 7pm on the 8th floor terrace of the Blackett … Continue reading →

        Hi guys, just reminding you about a great trip we’ve got coming up that promises to be extremely interesting and a lot of fun! This Saturday (26th Jan) Astrosoc will be making a trip to the … Continue reading →