TA AGM 2003

A weekend meeting at Alston Hall near Preston - 2003 October 10 - 12

Friday evening

17:00 Attendees begin to arrive and settle in. For those travelling north up the M6 it would be prudent to allow plenty of time to travel as there are usually significant hold ups on Friday afternoons. Members can check in at Alston Hall any time during the afternoon.

19:00 Dinner

20:30 Introduction to the weekend: D.G.Buczynski

20:40 Dr John Mason (BAA) "Lectures to Astronomical Societies: Personal Experiences"

21:40 Free time discussions in the bar

Saturday morning

08:30 Breakfast

09:30 Guy Hurst (TA editor) "The 2003 TA annual review"

10:15 TA team Mastermind Quiz (1)

11:00 Morning coffee

11:45 Dr Petr Pravec (Ondrejov Observatory Czech Republic) "Asteroid Photometry - from lightcurve measurements to physical parameters"

13:00 Lunch

Saturday afternoon

14:30 Dr Petr Pravec workshop and discussion of his work on Asteroid dimension modelling

15:30 TA team Mastermind Quiz (2)

16:00 Afternoon tea

16:30 Dr Donald Kurtz (University of Central Lancashire) "Asteroseismology: the real music of the spheres"

17:30 Free time /visit University of Central Lancashire''s Observatories and teaching labs

19:30 Dinner

20:30 David Ratledge (Bolton AS) "CCD imaging of unusual galaxies and galaxy groups"

21:30 Free time more discussions in the bar

Sunday morning

09:15 Breakfast

10:15 TA team Mastermind Quiz (3)

10:45 Tom Boles (BAA President elect) " The UK Supernova patrol: 100 up"

11:30 Morning coffee

12:00 Martin Mobberley (TA and BAA) " Webcam imaging of the Planets: Mars and others"

13:00 Lunch

Sunday afternoon

14:15 TA team Mastermind (4)

14:45 Professor Lionel Wilson (University of Lancaster) "The search for water on Mars"

15:45 Afternoon tea

Weekend closes

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