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8 MEETINGS

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WAS meetings are held at the Pavilion Hall in the village of Seend near Melksham. 

Directions - The village is on the A361 between Devizes and Trowbridge. On entering Seend from Devizes the Village halls are signposted to the right of the main road, immediately after the playing fields, in the middle of the village. Alongside our regular meetings, we also hold regular observing sessions and occasional workshops 

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We meet every month from September to June; usually from 8pm. Talks are given by guest speakers on a wide variety of topics. Newcomers and visitors are always very welcome. The links below go to the various speakers websites where applicable.

If you choose to become a regular member, we ask a modest annual subscription of £15..Members then contribute £1 on the night toward club expenses. This entitles you to printed copies of tea, coffee and snacks at every meeting, and access to our loan telescopes, and very special discount rates to our additional events.

TALKS FOR SEASON 2011/2012
Date	Speaker	Subject.
Sept 6th	Dr Lucie Green	Unveiling the Sun
October 4th	Will Gater	The Cosmic Keyhole
November 1st	Dr Ben Richie	Supermassive Stars
December 6th	Damian Peach	Views of the Solar System
January 3rd (2012)	Prof. Mike Edmunds	Letters from Newton
Feb 7th	Mark Radice	Making & Optimising a Newtonian telescope
March 6th	Dr Helen Walker	Infrared Astronomy (seeing the invisible)
April 3rd	Dr Chris North	The Herschel Telescope
May 1st	Mark Thompson	The Peoples Astronomer
June 12th	Martin Griffiths	A History of ET, from Democritus to the Enlightenment
The talks generally last around 90 minutes followed by Q&A and refrreshments

  Wiltshire Astronomical Society