See below for the full list of past lectures. For current lectures please follow this link.
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The Transient Universe.
18 Dec 2018 8:00 pm
Prof. Tim O'Brien (University of Manchester) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall.
Edmond Halley, Geophysicist, Royal Navy Explorer Sea Captain and Astronomer Royal
05 Jan 2019 8:00 pm
Dr Allan Chapman (Wadham College, Oxford) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Calvary Church Hall, Macclesfield
Winter Exhibition
26 Jan 2019 6:30 pm
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall
Winter Exhibition and Public Event
26 Jan 2019 6:30 pm
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall
Enceladus and other Icy Moons in the Solar System!
19 Feb 2019 8:00 pm
Rachael Hamp (Open University) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall
When Galaxies Collide!
19 Mar 2019 8:00 pm
Dr Megan Argo (University of Central Lancashire) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall
The challenges of the SKA project
16 Apr 2019 8:00 pm
Mathieu Isidro (SKA Organisation, Jodrell Bank) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall
Asteroids - Exploration and Exploitation
21 May 2019 8:00 pm
Dr Rhian Jones (University of Manchester) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall
It’s a Hot Big Bang Universe: the discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
18 Jun 2019 8:00 pm
Professor Ian Robson (STFC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall CW4 8PE
Current Trends in Astrobiology
16 Jul 2019 8:00 pm
Dr Mark Hadley (Macclesfield Astronomical Society) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall CW4 8PE
ANNUAL SUMMER EXHIBITION
20 Aug 2019 8:00 pm
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall CW4 8PE
Annual Summer Exhibition
20 Aug 2019 8:00 pm
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall
The Extremely Large Telescope Project
17 Sep 2019 8:00 pm
Professor Isobel Hook (University of Lancaster) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall CW4 8PE
AGM
15 Oct 2019 8:00 pm
Venue: Calvary Church, Macclesfield, SK11 8RH
AGM
22 Oct 2019 8:00 pm
Venue: Red Lion, Goostrey
Using remote access observatories for public education and access to off world data
19 Nov 2019 8:00 pm
Peter Williamson (FRAS, BBC Radio Shropshire Eye on the Sky) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall CW4 8PE
Water,Volcanoes and Robots on Mars
17 Dec 2019 8:00 pm
Dr Peter Fawdon (Open University) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall CW4 8PE
Sir Robert Stawell Ball (1840 - 1915) Astronomer, Writer and Populariser
04 Jan 2020 8:00 pm
Dr Allan Chapman (Wadham College, Oxford) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Calvary Church, Macclesfield, SK11 8RH
Winter Exhibition - Public Beginners Evening https://www.eventbrite.com/e/maccastrosoc-winter-exhibition-public-beginners-evening-2020-tickets-87828811339
01 Feb 2020 7:00 pm
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall
Weathering Solar Storms: Living with Space Weather
18 Feb 2020 8:00 pm
Professor Jim Wild (University of Lancaster) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall CW4 8PE
CANCELLED
17 Mar 2020 8:00 pm
Dr Julian Onions (CANCELLED) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall CW4 8PE
Galaxies - One Giga Year at a time
21 Apr 2020 8:00 pm
Dr Julian Onions (University of Nottingham) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: ONLINE
Variable Stars and Citizen Science
19 May 2020 8:00 pm
Heidi Theimann (Open University) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: ONLINE
Wonders of the Southern Sky
16 Jun 2020 8:00 pm
Professor Ian Morison (Macclesfield Astronomical Society) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: ONLINE
Extremophiles: Cold and Hungry
21 Jul 2020 8:00 pm
Tom McNally (Imperial College, London) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: ONLINE
ANNUAL SUMMER EXHIBITION
18 Aug 2020 8:00 pm
Venue: ONLINE
The Lost Meteorites of Antarctica (www.ukantarcticmeteorites.com)
15 Sep 2020 8:00 pm
Dr Geoffrey Evatt (University of Manchester) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: ONLINE
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING - Members only
20 Oct 2020 8:00 pm
Venue: ONLINE
Mercury and the BepiColombo mission
17 Nov 2020 8:00 pm
Professor David Rothery (Open University) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: ONLINE
The Frontiers of Astronomy
15 Dec 2020 8:00 pm
Dr Robin Catchpole (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: ONLINE
The 200th Anniversary of the RAS and The British Learned Society
09 Jan 2021 8:00 pm
Dr Allan Chapman (Wadham College, Oxford) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: ONLINE
The planet Venus
16 Feb 2021 8:00 pm
Dr Steve Hurley (Macclesfield Astronomical Society) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: ONLINE
Living near a star; new encounters with our Sun
16 Mar 2021 8:00 pm
Professor Robert Walsh (University of Central Lancashire) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: ONLINE
Gaia - the billion star mapping machine
20 Apr 2021 8:00 pm
Professor Rob Jeffries (Keele University) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: ONLINE
Herschel to Hawkwind – Music and Space, a symbiotic relationship
18 May 2021 8:00 pm
Peter Williamson FRAS (BBC Radio Shropshire, Eye on the Sky) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: ONLINE
From Apollo to the Space Shuttle - with a glimpse into the future of Spaceflight
15 Jun 2021 8:00 pm
Rod Woodcock (The British Interplanetary Society) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: ONLINE
Black holes: past, present and future
20 Jul 2021 8:00 pm
Dr Ziri Younsi (University College London) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: ONLINE
ANNUAL SUMMER EXHIBITION
17 Aug 2021 8:00 pm
Venue: TBC
“Supermassive Black Holes, Exoplanets, and other discoveries from your sofa”
21 Sep 2021 8:00 pm
Dr Brooke Simmons (University of Lancaster) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: ONLINE
'Our Place In The Universe - How Lucky Do You Feel Today?'
16 Nov 2021 8:00 pm
Steve Warbis (Macclesfield Astronomical Society) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall CW4 8PE
A hidden side to the Universe: unveiling distant starbursts
21 Dec 2021 8:00 pm
Dr Julie Wardlow (University of Lancaster) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall CW4 8PE
Our Island Universe - the Milky Way and its place in time and space.
08 Jan 2022 8:00 pm
Professor Ian Morison (Macclesfield Astronomical Society) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: ONLINE
PLEASE NOTE: This lecture takes place on a Saturday
Satellite Navigation - satellites and systems
15 Feb 2022 8:00 pm
Dr Steve Hurley (Macclesfield Astronomical Society) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
A Telescope or a Poem: A choice of Astronomies
12 Mar 2022 8:00 pm
David Levy (Jarnac Observatory, Vail, Arizona) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: ONLINE
Please note this Lecture is on a SATURDAY
The Forgotten Star Atlas
15 Mar 2022 8:00 pm
Kevin Kilburn (Manchester Astronomical Society/Society for the History of Astronomy) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
Mars and the Missions
19 Apr 2022 8:00 pm
Dr Manish Patel (Open University) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
New rocks for understanding the early Solar System: Meteorites and asteroid sample return
17 May 2022 8:00 pm
Dr Rhian Jones (University of Manchester) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
The Volcanic History of the Moon.
21 Jun 2022 8:00 pm
Marissa Lo (University of Manchester) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
Myth to Mars
19 Jul 2022 8:00 pm
Pete Williamson FRAS (BBC Radio Shropshire Eye on the Sky) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: POSTPONED
POSTPONED
SUMMER EXHIBITION
16 Aug 2022 8:00 pm
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
“A rocket’s eye view of our Sun – examining our closest star from space”
20 Sep 2022 8:00 pm
Professor Robert Walsh (University of Central Lancashire) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
Annual General Meeting
18 Oct 2022 8:00 pm
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall. CW4 8PE
Astronomy and Art: Universal Appeal?
15 Nov 2022 8:00 pm
Professor Andy Newsam (Liverpool John Moore University) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
Gravitational Waves: Einstein's Messengers
20 Dec 2022 8:00 pm
Professor Robin Jeffries (Keele University) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
The Goodwill Moon Rock
14 Jan 2023 8:00 pm
Dermot Gething (UK Youth Ambassador for Apollo 17 Mission) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Calvary Church, Macclesfield
Please note this lecture is on a SATURDAY
The Great Silence
21 Feb 2023 8:00 pm
Dr Steve Hurley (Macclesfield Astronomical Society) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
Spacecraft I have Known and Loved
21 Mar 2023 8:00 pm
Professor John Zarnecki (Emeritus Professor of Space Science - Open University) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall. CW4 8PE
How to Photograph a Black Hole
18 Apr 2023 8:00 pm
Andy Briggs (Manager of YouTube Channel, 'Space Oddities') will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: ONLINE
Please note this Lecture is ONLINE
The Search for Life on Mars
16 May 2023 8:00 pm
Dr Peter Grindrod (Natural History Museum, London) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall. CW4 8PE
The JUICE Mission to Jupiter and Ganymede
20 Jun 2023 8:00 pm
Dr Chris Arridge (University of Lancaster) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall. CW4 8PE
The Art of Astrophotography
18 Jul 2023 8:00 pm
Professor Ian Morison (Macclesfield Astronomical Society) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall. CW4 8PE
SUMMER EXHIBITION
15 Aug 2023 8:00 pm
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall. CW4 8PE
An Overview of the SKA project
19 Sep 2023 8:00 pm
Ray Brederode (SKA Jodrell Bank Observatory) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall. CW4 8PE
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
17 Oct 2023 8:00 pm
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall. CW4 8PE
Scouts from a long way away - what interstellar objects can tell us
21 Nov 2023 8:00 pm
Professor Chris Lintott (University of Oxford) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall. CW4 8PE
George Gibbs FRAS, Curator and Designer of the Jeremy Horrocks Observatory and Inventor of the Heliochronometer
19 Dec 2023 8:00 pm
Graham Mcloughlin (Preston Astronomical Society) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall. CW4 8PE
Disaster! Space weather on the big screen
16 Jan 2024 8:00 pm
Professor Jim Wild (Lancaster University) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
The Search for Dark Matter
20 Feb 2024 8:00 pm
Dr Steve Hurley (Macclesfield Astronomical Society) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
Exploring Titan, Earth's True Sister 'Planet'
19 Mar 2024 8:00 pm
Professor Louis Mayo (Marymount University, USA) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: ONLINE
Please note this is an ONLINE lecture
The New Liverpool Telescope. The World's Largest Fully Robotic Telescope,
16 Apr 2024 8:00 pm
Dr Joao Da Silva Bento (Liverpool John Moores University) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
”Lad from Sandbach does good”
21 May 2024 8:00 pm
Nicholas Booth will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
Elliptical and Lenticular Galaxies - Their Stars and Interstellar Medium
18 Jun 2024 8:00 pm
Dr Anne Sansom (The University of Central Lancashire) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
When Giants collide: Gravitational Wave Astronomy
16 Jul 2024 8:00 pm
Andy Briggs (Space Oddities) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: ONLINE
Please note this is an ONLINE lecture
SUMMER EXHIBITION
20 Aug 2024 8:00 pm
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
The James Webb Telescope: Mission Highlights and Recent Discoveries
17 Sep 2024 8:00 pm
Thomas Harvey FRAS (The University of Manchester) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
15 Oct 2024 8:00 pm
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
The Music of the Stars
19 Nov 2024 8:00 pm
Dr Anne-Marie Broomhall (University of Warwick) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
Legacy of lunar sample return missions
17 Dec 2024 8:00 pm
Divya Ravy (University of Manchester) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex Mission
21 Jan 2025 8:00 pm
Dr Sarah Crowther (University of Manchester) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
The Anthropic Principle
18 Feb 2025 8:00 pm
Dr Steve Hurley (Macclesfield Astronomical Society) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
The planet next door
18 Mar 2025 8:00 pm
Nicholas Booth will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
“The remarkable nova GK Persei”
15 Apr 2025 8:00 pm
Professor Tim O'Brien (Jodrell Bank Observatory, University of Manchester) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
The Professor Ian Morison Memorial Lecture: 'Big Cats'
20 May 2025 8:00 pm
Christopher Rose (Founder of Macclesfield Astronomical Society) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
What temperature is the surface of the Moon and why should I care?
17 Jun 2025 8:00 pm
Professor Neil Bowles (University of Oxford) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
Solar flares – the most powerful explosions in the solar system.
15 Jul 2025 8:00 pm
Professor Philippa Browning (University of Manchester) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
SUMMER EXHIBITION
19 Aug 2025 8:00 pm
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
State of the art numerical simulations of galaxies and their star clusters.
16 Sep 2025 8:00 pm
Professor Robert Crain (Liverpool John Moores University) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
21 Oct 2025 8:00 pm
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
Our Place in the Universe (How Lucky Do You Feel Today?)
18 Nov 2025 8:00 pm
Steve Warbis (Macclesfield Astronomical Society) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
‘Small steps to giant leaps: laying the scientific groundwork for the first human missions to Mars.’
16 Dec 2025 8:00 pm
Dr Frances Butcher FRAS (University of Sheffield) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
“Building rocky planets – in our own Solar System and beyond”
20 Jan 2026 8:00 pm
Professor Rhian Jones (University of Manchester) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
“Gently, Down the Stream: Monitoring Satellites with Neuromorphic Cameras”
17 Feb 2026 8:00 pm
Dr James Blake (University of Warwick) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
The Ultimate Fate of the Universe
17 Mar 2026 8:00 pm
Dr Steve Hurley (Macclesfield Astronomical Society) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
Forecasting the weather on extrasolar worlds.
21 Apr 2026 8:00 pm
Dr Vatsal Panwar (University of Warwick) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
The Professor Ian Morison Memorial Lecture - Things that go bump in the night
19 May 2026 8:00 pm
Dr Megan Argo (University of Lancashire) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
The Secret Metronome of Solar and Stellar Flares.
16 Jun 2026 8:00 pm
Dr Dmitrii Kolotkov (University of Warwick) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
Exoplanets: Searching and Characterising
21 Jul 2026 8:00 pm
Gary Gilbert will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
SUMMER EXHIBITION
18 Aug 2026 8:00 pm
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
How we detect and understand planets outside our Solar system
15 Sep 2026 8:00 pm
Professor Thomas Wilson (University of Warwick) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
20 Oct 2026 8:00 pm
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
TBC
17 Nov 2026 8:00 pm
Steve Warbis (Macclesfield Astronomical Society) will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE
Variable stars, models and the Manhattan Project
15 Dec 2026 8:00 pm
Dr Philip Masding will be presenting the lecture.
Venue: Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE