space news feb meetup

Welcome

• Email group – brightonastro@googlegroups.com• Website: brightonastro.com• Twitter: @astrobrighton• Facebook: facebook.com/brightonastro• Flyers and posters• Spread the word!

Agenda

• Intro• Space News!• Astrophotography Talk – Gordon Laing• Try out VR• Pub / maybe telescopes

Announcements & Events

Brighton Astro Dates

• Usually – last Tuesday of the month• Tues 28th March - Gareth, Neutron Stars• Tues 25th April - Group astrophotography show&tell• Tues 30th May - Ciaran Fairhurst, "Detecting the most

distant galaxies"• Tues 27th June - Daniel Moinar, “galaxy evolution”• Tues 25th July - Unconfirmed

• Sept 5 – 9 2017

• Co hosted by Uni of Sussex & Brighton Uni

• Brighton Astro planning a “Beach hut astronomy” event

Clusters of Galaxies: The Shy Giants of the CosmosWednesday 8 March 18:30 until 20:00

Sussex University Talks

Directly Imaging Exoplanets

Event Horizon Telescope

NASA’s maiden Space Launch System rocket flightNow MAY be manned instead of unmanned. Original plan was for mission to loop around the moon, so chance could now be sending humans back around the moon for first time in about 40 years! As early as 2019.

Space X

JUNO’s troubles

JUNO’s troubles