Society monthly meeting recorded on 20260715 at The Briars Mount Martha Observatory.
Meeting introduction was by the President, Dr. Peter Skilton. Committee member, Dr. Guido Tack, presented the Sky for the Month. There was no Astrophotographic challenge this month, with the previous challenge being carried over to next month instead.
The main topic was a public lecture about “Decoding Our Universe Through Spectroscopy”, presented by Prof. Raghunathan Srianand, Cosmologist and Astrophysicist and Director of the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, on 13-Jul-2024, courtesy of IUCAA, Pune, Maharashtra, India. Decoding our Universe through Spectroscopy… , creative commons attribution licence reuse allowed.
An educational science video then followed: “Why Does Light Bend When It Enters Glass?” , presented by Dr. Don Lincoln of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, courtesy of The FermiLab channel that he hosts.
A musical closure followed, showing “Tangled Magnetospheres of Merging Neutron Stars”. The video is courtesy of NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre, using the Ames Pleiades Supercomputer. It is set to the audio of “Firestorm” by Cold Cinema, courtesy of the [No Copyright Music] channel.