Prof Melvin Hoare will present a talk entitled "Sequential star formation and H II regions in the spiral arms of Galaxies"

Tuesday 14 January 2014 19:30 to 21:30

Prof Melvin Hoare will present a talk entitled "Sequential star formation and H II regions in the spiral arms of Galaxies". Everyone is welcome to attend but please note that there is a visitors fee of £4 this evening as we have guest speaker, (accompanied family children are free). The talk will be in the small ballroom in the Carleton Center.

Ongoing efforts to map out where stars form in our Galaxy will be described. Recent work has shown that the Milky Way is a barred galaxy with two stellar arms. However, the massive star formation regions are distributed in four gaseous spiral arms. The various mechanisms that may trigger the formation of new stars will be described and how this might fit into a galaxy-wide picture of star formation.

Prof Philippa Browning of Jodrell Bank Centre will present a talk on "Our Active Sun"

Tuesday 18 March 2014 19:30 to 21:30

Guest Speaker Robin Taylor

Tuesday 15 April 2014 19:30 to 21:30

Tonight Robin Taylor will be presenting the second part in a series of talks on the subject  Historic Astronomers. Part 2   Tycho Brahe  .   Everyone is welcome to attend but please note that there is a visitors fee of £4 this evening as we have guest speaker, (accompanied family children are free). The talk will be in the small ballroom in the Carleton Center.

Guest speaker Colin Steele "Meteors, from Comet to camera"

Tuesday 20 May 2014 19:30 to 21:30