The aims of the Oxford University Space and Astronomical Society are to promote and encourage an interest in astronomy, astrophysics and space science throughout the University. http://users.ox.ac.uk/~space/ Sat, 26 Feb 2011 21:30 Sat, 26 Feb 2011 21:30 images/logo-big.png http://users.ox.ac.uk/~space/ It's my pleasure to announce the new OUSAS committee, elected last week at our AGM: President: Sara Lukic Secretary: Gareth Wilkes Treasurer: Zartasha Naeem Obs Officer: Sara Lukic Rocketry Officer: Robert Bell Access Officer: Robert Bell Publicity Officer: Ridhi Kantelal Website Officer: Simon Rowe Fundraising coordinator: Zartasha Naeem Social activities coordinator: John Lees & Ridhi Kantelal Hilary Term 2011 * 2nd Week 24th Jan. Colin Jack: "Cheap space travel: forever beyond our reach?" * 3rd Week 31st Feb. Dr. Suzanne Aigrain (Oxford): "Getting up close and personal with exoplanets" * 4th Week 7th Feb. Rocketry * 5th Week 14th Feb. Dr. Dave Clements (Imperial): "The Herschel mission" * 6th Week 21st Feb. Members' talks, with AGM afterwards for committee elections * 7th Week 28th Feb. Prof. F.W. Taylor (Oxford): "The scientific exploration of Mars" * 8th Week 7th Mar. Prof. John Miller (SISSA/Trieste & Oxford): "Gravitational-Wave Astronomy - An update" Talks and Rocketry Mondays, 8:30 pm in the Denys Wilkinson Building on Keble road _Week 1 - David Wilkinson, "The Milky Way’s Missing Satellite Galaxies" _Week 2 - Fraser Clarke: "Extremely Large Telescopes: the next generation of ground-based _telescopes", followed by observations using the Wetton Telescope _Week 3 - Duncan Law-Green, "A Ticket to Ride into Space? The Coming Age of Commercial _Spaceflight" _Week 4 - Subir Sakar, "Dark matter or modified gravity?" _Week 5 - Rocketry _Week 6 - Elisa Carboni, "Satellite observation of volcanic emission in atmosphere" _Week 7 - Mihran Vardanyan, "Armenian Stonehenge: Qarahunge" _Week 8 - Tim Sumner, on recent searches for dark matter http://users.ox.ac.uk/~space/index.html Sun, 10 Oct 2010 20:57 id_01 The new Rocketry videos have been uploaded and have there own page on the site so please follow the link for some good laughs. http://users.ox.ac.uk/~space/rocketmoz.html Sun, 9 May 2010 19:38 id_01 Due to the longer days the meeting time for observations has been moved to 10:30pm http://users.ox.ac.uk/~space/ Sun, 9 May 2010 19:38 id_01 The talk on week three will be: Arfon Smith - Galaxy Zoo to the Zooniverse - The rise of the citizen scientist. If you haven't heard of Galaxy Zoo before, I recommend you follow this link. http://www.galaxyzoo.org/ Sun, 2 Apr 2010 22:19 id_01 Week 1 - rocketry, Week 2 - Mark Hurn: Sir Arthur Eddington, Man Myth and Mystic, Week 3 - tbc, Week 4 - Mihran Vardanyan: Armenian Stonehenge - Qarahunge (this is the title of the talk he was going to give earlier but cancelled). http://users.ox.ac.uk/~space/ Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:50 id_01 A new committee has been elected. President- Ridhi Kantelal. Secretary- Liam Shaw. Treasurer- Mark Raymond. Obs Officer- Krzysztof Suberlak. Rocketry Officer- Mark Raymond. Access Officer- Maryam Ahmed. Publicity Officer- Harry Desmond. Website Officer- Simon Rowe. Senior Member- Prof Eland. http://users.ox.ac.uk/~space/ Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:03 id_01 A new Year. A new committee. A new website. I hope you like it. http://users.ox.ac.uk/~space/ Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:03 id_01 This was the first obs sesion conducted by Krzysztof. He introduced the party to Spectroscopy using a filter which split the light of the observed stars into the visable light spectrum. Please follow the link for detailed information on Spectroscopy. http://brahms.phy.vanderbilt.edu/a103/labs/tl_spectro.shtml Mon, 1 Mar 2010 23:33 id_01