Open University Astronomy Club

Date/Venue	Speaker/Topic	Sky News	Sky Notes
8 January 2019 Robert Hooke Seminar Room	Speaker: Nick Hewitt Title: The Local Group	Michael Held	Peter Hudson
5 February 2019 Robert Hooke Seminar Room	Speaker: Owen Brazell, Oxford Owen is the assistant director of the BAA's Deep Sky Section and regular contributor to Astronomy Now Title: Astrophotography (not electronic imaging)	Michael Held	Peter Hudson
5 March 2019 Robert Hooke Seminar Room	Speaker: No speaker as it's the AGM. Members invited to give short presentations.	Michael Held	Peter Hudson
2 April 2019 Robert Hooke Seminar Room	Speaker: David Pegg Title: Mercury: the Number one Planet - An overview of what we know about the planet and some of explosive (volcanically) new research	Michael Held	Peter Hudson
7 May 2019 Robert Hooke Seminar Room	Speaker: Darren Jehan Title: Automated Observatories	Michael Held	Peter Hudson
4 June 2019 Robert Hooke Seminar Room	Speaker: Ben Dryer - an academic at the OU under Andrew Norton Title: The GAIA Astrometric observatory: characterization and repair on-board CCD sensors Note: There's a good write-up of the spacecraft at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_(spacecraft) for further information.	Michael Held	Peter Hudson

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