BAA Autumn Meeting

We will be holding our Autumn meeting from Friday 22nd to Sunday 24th September 2023 in Leicester. The event is designed to help people of all abilities to get more out of astronomy. There will be talks and advice on planetary imaging, telescopes, setting up meteor cameras and many other aspects of observational astronomy.

You can access the 25% BAA member discount code by logging in to the BAA website and following this link. You enter it as a promo code on the screen where you provide your details. The SPA will be providing a discount code for their members.

Optional Accommodation

Unfortunately all the university accommodation has now been booked up by others, so if you are coming and need to stay you will need to look at booking a room at one of the Premier Inns or B&B at one of the other hotels of guest houses in Leicester.

At the time of reporting this there are rooms available in the Leicester City Centre Premier Inn - Costs for Fri until Sun morning on a standard is £187.50 plus breakfast.

Speakers

Prof Leigh Fletcher – JUICE: ESA’s Mission to Explore the Icy Worlds of Jupiter
Pete Lawrence – Imaging the Planets
Richard Fleet – Video Meteor Observing
Sandra Brantingham – Aurora, NCL & STEVE
Nick James – Observing Comets
David Arditti – Tools for the job – deciding on the best telescope for your needs

Paul Abel is hoping to arrange a visit to the university observatory on Sunday morning.

A detailed set of directions to College Court Conference Centre are provided in this pdf file.

Our thanks go to the Leicester Astronomical Society who are hosting this meeting.

Meeting organiser: Hazel Collett