Speakers at meetings

 

 

 

Arbour, Ron

The struggle against light pollution (1995)

Driving CCDs (1996)

How I done it (1998)

Discoveries while you sleep (2003)

Commissioning telescopes (2008)

 

Arditti, David

Imaging with a 10-inch Dall–Cassegrain (2005)

 

Armstrong, Mark

The discovery of SN1996bo (1997)

The discovery of SN1998aq (1998)

 

Baxter, Andrew

Hanwell Observatory (2003)

 

Beare, Richard

Photometric projects using the

                        Faulkes Telescope (2004)

 

Bell, John

A memento of Grubb Parsons (2008)

 

Boles, Tom

Adaptive optics (1998)

A robotic mount (1999)

 

Boyd, David

It’s surprising what you can measure (2004)

Photometric data analysis template (2004)

 

Brazell, Owen

New equipment on the market (2004)

 

Briggs, David

Imaging of deep-sky objects (1999)

 

Chapman, Allan

The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (2008)

 

Cooper, Stuart

Eyepiece mounts and collimators (1999)

 

Crook, Lorraine

A visit to Birr (2003)

Practical mirror-making (2004)

 

Elliott, Andrew

Video techniques (1995)

An image intensifier video system (1999)

A remotely operated video telescope (2001)

Precision video timing of occultations

                        and meteors (2006)

 

Ellison, Doug

Thirty-three cameras: our eyes on Mars (2005)

Processing spacecraft images of Mars (2005)

The HiRISE camera on Mars Orbiter (2007)

 

Evans, Steve

Zeiss astrometry (1996)

What’s new in the realm of meteors? (1999)

 

Foulkes, Steve

An automatic supernova patrol system (1999)

Supernova searching (2001)

 

Gavin, Maurice

Building a focal plane spectroscope (1995)

CCD spectroscopy (1996)

CCD star colours (1997)

The spectrum of SN1998bu (1998)

The use of a relay lens in spectroscopy (1999)

A high-resolution stellar spectrograph (2001)

Spectroscopic miscellanea (2007)

 

Gavine, David

The jamjar magnetometer – a reprise (2006)

 

Hatfield, Henry

The Sevenoaks spectrohelioscope (2000)

 

Hewitt, Nick

The programme of the Deep Sky Section (1995)

The history of a Wray refractor (2000)

 

Holland, Karen

CCD basics (1996)

The CCD mentoring scheme and

                        CCD target list (2004)

Construction and use of a VLF receiver (2006)

Latest report on the VLF receiver (2007)

 

Hollis, Andy

Photoelectric photometry (1995)

A simple CCD system for

                        asteroid observation (2001)

 

Howarth, John

Astrometry with a measuring machine (1997)

Hurst, Guy

Supernova searching with a CCD (1999)

Reporting discoveries (2000)

Patrolling for novae with a CCD (2000)

 

Hysom, Jim

Problems in optics (1995)

The Cambridge 36-inch reflector (1999)

 

James, Nick

Telescope drives (1995)

CCD imaging of comet Hale–Bopp (1997)

The manufacture and workings of CCDs (1999)

Conder Brow robotic telescope (2003)

Cometary photometry (2004)

Remote telescopes (2007)

Refurbishment of the James observatory (2008)

 

Johnstone, Geoff

Photographic techniques (1996)

 

King, Ian

A sojourn on La Palma (1995)

 

Le Masson, Marcel

A simple observatory dome (1998)

 

Leadbeater, Robin

Modified webcams for scientific imaging (2007)

 

Mackey, John

CCD astrometry (1996)

 

Manning, Brian

Reflections from Moonrakers (1996)

 

Marriott, Bob

Classic instruments (1996)

Amateur telescope-making – a plea (1997)

BAA Instrument No.93 (1998)

Real telescopes (1999)

A weekend at Hardwick (2000)

A demonstration of spectroscopy (2001)

Director’s report (2003)

A visit to Birr (2003)

Director’s report (2004)

Director’s report and miscellanea (2005 [1])

Director’s report and miscellanea (2005 [2])

Lunar imaging with a webcam (2005)

Director’s report and miscellanea (2006)

The Libyan eclipse (2006)

Welcome and introduction (2007)

The early days of the telescope (2008)

A brief history of astrophotography

                        and imaging (2008)

 

Marsh, Glyn

The Mond astrograph (1995)

Large-format photography of

                        comet Hale–Bopp (1997)

 

Mason, John

Radio equipment for meteor observation (1995)

 

Maunder, Mike

Photographic emulsions (1995)

New photographic emulsions (1997)

A new afocal telescope (1998)

 

Miles, Patrick

Clear sky detection (1998)

 

Miles, Richard

CCD photometry (1995)

CCD photometry (1996)

An off-axis guidescope design (1997)

Recent developments in photometry (1999)

The IAPPP organisation (1999)

Simultaneous three-telescope photometry (2001)

Calibration of unfiltered photometry (2004)

Asteroid photometry (2004)

 

Moreton, Peter

A high-performance CCD camera (2001)

 

Naylor, Tim

Pro–am cooperation via CCD imaging (1995)

New CCD projects (2004)

 

Neville, Bob

CCD imaging (1995)

CCD versus emulsion (1996)

Progress and future of the Section (1997)

A method of tracking rapidly-

                        moving asteroids (1998)

A spreadsheet for mirror testing (1999)

A tracking device (2000)

 

Newton, Jack

Colour CCD imaging (1995)

 

Oksanen, Arto

Photometry projects of

                        Nyrölä Observatory (2004)

Parkinson, Steve

An observatory for photometry (2003)

 

Patrick, Tom

Telescopes remembered (1998)

 

Pickard, Roger

The Jack Ells APT (1998)

CCD photometry (1999)

A brief outline of VS Section initiatives (2004)

 

Platt, Terry

Developments in CCD technology (1997)

New developments in CCD technology (1999)

 

Poyner, Gary

The Bradford Robotic Telescope (2007)

 

Salmon, Graham

Concepts of photometry (1998)

CCD dark fields (1999)

 

Saxton, John

Photoelectric photometry with a Newtonian (1997)

A CCD linearity test device (2000)

A periodic error correction system (2000)

Photometric software (2001)

CCD photometry at Lymm Observatory (2004)

 

Shanklin, Jonathan

Instruments for cometary observation (1995)

 

Shayler, David J.

Repairing the Hubble Space Telescope (2000)

 

Shuttlewood, Cliff

A counterbalanced mount for binoculars (2007)

 

Sinden, David

A life in optics (1996)

 

Smith, Kevin

Solar imaging (2003)

 

Szymanek, Nik

A sojourn on La Palma (1995)

Imaging from La Palma (1998)

New images and imaging techniques (2004)

 

Tasselli, Andrea

Imaging Mars with a webcam (2005)

High-performance planetary imaging (2006)

 

Taylor, Christopher

Hanwell Observatory (2003)

 

Taylor, Martin

Imaging with a webcam (2003)

Planetary imaging with a webcam (2004)

Deep-sky imaging with a digital camera (2005 [1])

Planetary imaging with a webcam (2005 [2])

Deep-sky imaging with a digital camera (2005 [2])

 

Vannmunster, Tonny

CCD photometry of transient objects (2004)

Peranso analysis software (2004)

 

Walker, Norman

CCD photometry (1998)

Amateur photometry –

                        a strategy for survival (2004)

 

Wall, John

The construction of large reflectors (1995)

The making of a 30-inch OG (1998)

A home-made 30-inch refractor (2000)

The Crayford eyepiece mount (2003)

The Crayford eyepiece mount – a reprise (2004)

Dialytes beyond Schupmann (2005)

The life and times of a telescope maker (2006)

 

Waterman, Stan

[Title?] (2004)

 

Weightman, James

Photometric experiments

                        with a digital camera (2004)

 

Wheatley, Peter

Robotic telescopes (2004)

 

Whitehouse, David

Who really invented the telescope? (2008)

 

Wilson, Andrew

The BAA VSS CCD photometry database (2004)

 

Wise, Peter

A new telescope design (2003)

 

Youdale, Jack

An unknown Dall null test (1996)