| Status: | Active, open to new members |
| Coordinator: |
Trevor Pitt
Tel: 07747033009
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| Group email: | Astronomy for Beginners group |
| When: | Monthly on Monday afternoons 2:00 pm-4:00 pm 2nd Monday each month |
| Venue: | Bersted Jubilee Hall |
| Cost: | £2:00 towards room hire cost and 50p for tea / coffee / biscuits |
New members welcome, just turn up and see how you get on. No knowledge of astronomy is necessary, however, any skills in the subject would always be useful. Drinks and biscuits are provided as there is a kitchen ( volunteers required).
The meeting subjects are based loosely on the present GCSE course, though there are no tests of course. Once the topics are completed then we go around the course again and / or introduce new topics.
In keeping with u3a ethos, course members should offer some input e.g. discuss a constellation or a latest development.
A link to all Messier Object images is here.
If the opportunity allows, such as a rare eclipse event, we will try viewing the event through telescopes.
Subjects include:
- Topic 1 – Planet Earth ●
- Topic 2 – The lunar disc ●
- Topic 3 – The Earth-Moon-Sun system ●
- Topic 4 – Time and the Earth-Moon-Sun cycles ●
- Topic 5 – Solar System observation
- Topic 6 – Celestial observation ●
- Topic 7 – Early models of the Solar System ●
- Topic 8 – Planetary motion and gravity
- Topic 9 – Exploring the Moon ●
- Topic 10 – Solar astronomy ●
- Topic 11 – Exploring the Solar System ●
- Topic 12 – Formation of planetary systems ●
- Topic 13 – Exploring starlight ●
- Topic 14 – Stellar evolution ●
- Topic 15 – Our place in the Galaxy ●
- Topic 16 – Cosmology
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