Society monthly meeting recorded on 20241016 at The Briars Mount Martha Observatory.
Meeting introduction was by the President, Dr. Peter Skilton. Vice President, Chris Kostokanellis, presented the Astrophotographic challenge for the month remotely by Zoom. Committee member, Dr. Guido Tack, then presented the Sky for the Month.
The main topic was by Alyssa Pagan & Joe DePasquale, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, who spoke on the topic of “The Art and Science of Webb Imagery”.
This public talk about the Webb Space Telescope images and their processing was from 17-January-2023 and is courtesy of the Space Telescope Science Institute.
Science videos were then shown as follows:
- “Googol and Googolplex and the Size of the Universe” by Prof.Tony Padilla & Assoc.Prof. Ria Symonds, University of Nottingham, Numberphile channel, produced by Brady Haran.
- “Pi and the Size of the Universe by Dr. James Grime, Mathematics Communicator, Numberphile channel, produced by Brady Haran.
A musical closure followed, showing the “Starship Test Flight #5 and chopsticks-like capture on 13-Oct-2024”. The video footage is courtesy of SpaceX, and is set to the audio of “Sky Comes Falling Down” by Infraction from the No Copyright Music channel.