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You have found your way to a recently created blog for Salford Astronomical Society. Not a "Captain's Log" but rather a "Chairman's Blog". I hope this is a tradition with which future chairmen of the Society will choose to continue.
Through my postings here, I hope to record activities and events taking place within the Society and the wider astronomical community during 2006. I hope that members of the Society, other amateur astronomers in the UK and the public around the world will make a contribution in this blog via the “comment” option. Salford Astronomical Society is a small group of enthusiastic astronomers founded in 1971. Its spiritual home is the Observatory (housing an 18 inch Newtonian Telescope) in Chaseley Field located about a mile from the University of Salford.
I hope to upload at least one article every month. It will briefly cover the monthly lecture and a miscellany of other, I hope interesting or relevant, current affairs in the astronomical community. The blog will start off with January’s lecture but I would like to record here a few of the incidents from December 2005. On December 14th we had the usual excellent Christmas lecture by our honorary president Dr Allan Chapman who spoke as usual
without notes, eloquently and with clarity to inform charm and entertain the now traditional large attendance. In addition to the usual filming the session was also recorded in audio by Manchester Astronomical Society’s Mike Oates. Within a week he kindly sent a copy on two audio CDs which are now available for loan by any member of the Society.
On the afternoon of the following day, the 15th December, Allan formally unveiled a William Crabtree Plaque on the junction of Broughton Rd and The Priory. Unfortunately I was unable to attend but all the reports indicated a successful event which included tea and coffee (with biscuits) attended by the lord Mayor of Salford, other dignitaries and some members of the SAS.
Gurbir
You have found your way to a recently created blog for Salford Astronomical Society. Not a "Captain's Log" but rather a "Chairman's Blog". I hope this is a tradition with which future chairmen of the Society will choose to continue.
Through my postings here, I hope to record activities and events taking place within the Society and the wider astronomical community during 2006. I hope that members of the Society, other amateur astronomers in the UK and the public around the world will make a contribution in this blog via the “comment” option. Salford Astronomical Society is a small group of enthusiastic astronomers founded in 1971. Its spiritual home is the Observatory (housing an 18 inch Newtonian Telescope) in Chaseley Field located about a mile from the University of Salford.
I hope to upload at least one article every month. It will briefly cover the monthly lecture and a miscellany of other, I hope interesting or relevant, current affairs in the astronomical community. The blog will start off with January’s lecture but I would like to record here a few of the incidents from December 2005. On December 14th we had the usual excellent Christmas lecture by our honorary president Dr Allan Chapman who spoke as usual
without notes, eloquently and with clarity to inform charm and entertain the now traditional large attendance. In addition to the usual filming the session was also recorded in audio by Manchester Astronomical Society’s Mike Oates. Within a week he kindly sent a copy on two audio CDs which are now available for loan by any member of the Society.On the afternoon of the following day, the 15th December, Allan formally unveiled a William Crabtree Plaque on the junction of Broughton Rd and The Priory. Unfortunately I was unable to attend but all the reports indicated a successful event which included tea and coffee (with biscuits) attended by the lord Mayor of Salford, other dignitaries and some members of the SAS.
Gurbir
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Pleased to see the SAS has joined the 21st century :p
The street plaque June 2004 corner of Priory Grove/Lr. Broughton Road. The Crabtree Croft plaque designed by Lilian Fletcher, sited on Crabtree Croft. Perhaps the designer and the local residents association responsible should be acknowledged.
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