Orpington Astronomical Society

Society => Announcements, Meetings, Events => Topic started by: Mike on Jan 28, 2010, 23:59:26

Title: Tonights Speaker - Doug Ellison
Post by: Mike on Jan 28, 2010, 23:59:26
Personally, I think tonights talk by Doug Ellison was the best I have ever seen in the society. It was very well presented, interesting, humours and the information given was at our level.

I really enjoyed it and found the whole subject very interesting. Well done Doug.
Title: Re: Tonight Speaker - Doug Ellison
Post by: MarkS on Jan 29, 2010, 00:08:48
Agreed.  The best I've seen in my 2 years at OAS.

A knowledgeable and very enthusiastic presenter talking on a very interesting topic using excellent materials.

Excellent!

Mark
Title: Re: Tonight Speaker - Doug Ellison
Post by: mickw on Jan 29, 2010, 00:29:03
Yep, must agree.
Great talk, content and speaker.

Does anyone remember the websites mentioned  :oops:
Title: Re: Tonight Speaker - Doug Ellison
Post by: Ian on Jan 29, 2010, 00:31:23
you can start here

http://www.dougellison.com/
Title: Re: Tonight Speaker - Doug Ellison
Post by: Carole on Jan 29, 2010, 00:35:11
Excellent talk.

Carole
Title: Re: Tonight Speaker - Doug Ellison
Post by: Rick on Jan 29, 2010, 00:37:35
Have a couple of others:

http://unmannedspaceflight.com
http://planetary.org/blog
http://marsandme.blogspot.com

(Ok, so I can't count...)
Title: Re: Tonight Speaker - Doug Ellison
Post by: mickw on Jan 29, 2010, 00:52:10
Thanks Ian and Rick - More reasons to stay indoors  ;)
Title: Re: Tonight Speaker - Doug Ellison
Post by: Rick on Jan 29, 2010, 07:56:48
As if the weather wasn't reason enough... ;)
Title: Re: Tonight Speaker - Doug Ellison
Post by: Fay on Jan 29, 2010, 07:57:01
Wow, what a talk by, Doug, a man whose passion is Mars. Great presentation, such a lot of knowledge & enthusiasm.

He even paid us a compliment, saying we were the noisiest, & words to the effect that, we were the livliest, largest group he had ever spoken to, with a great meeting place. & we should be grateful for all of that. Most clubs he visited comprised of around 6 people in a cold hall with poor facilities.

I must say we all seemed to turn out last night, a good evening.
Title: Re: Tonight Speaker - Doug Ellison
Post by: RobertM on Jan 29, 2010, 08:00:00
What a bummer I missed it :(
Title: Re: Tonight Speaker - Doug Ellison
Post by: Mike on Jan 29, 2010, 08:35:53
Quote from: Fay on Jan 29, 2010, 07:57:01I must say we all seemed to turn out last night, a good evening.

I've never seen so many people at a meeting!!  :o
Title: Re: Tonight Speaker - Doug Ellison
Post by: mickw on Jan 29, 2010, 09:19:11
QuoteI've never seen so many people at a meeting!!

The heating must have packed up in the knitting club  :lol:
Title: Re: Tonights Speaker - Doug Ellison
Post by: Mac on Jan 29, 2010, 13:41:34
Thoroughly enjoyed the talk,
I agree its one of the best i've heard

Mac.
Title: Re: Tonights Speaker - Doug Ellison
Post by: Tony G on Jan 29, 2010, 14:02:34
A very, very good and informative talk, and one which even I understood. ;)
With talks like this drawing in more members, we may need to look at video conferencing into the next room, or take the dividing wall down.
Well done to whoever organised this talk, as by all accounts we were lucky to see Doug before he hot footed it across the pond.

Tony G
Title: Re: Tonights Speaker - Doug Ellison
Post by: The Thing on Jan 29, 2010, 18:35:09
Martian Doug was such an enthusiast and so knowledgeable. I really enjoyed his talk. Can we all go over to JPL and listen to him again?
Title: Re: Tonights Speaker - Doug Ellison
Post by: Ian on Jan 29, 2010, 19:10:59
while your saving your pennies to pay our airfare, a close approximation of the presentation he did last night is on youtube. The link is on his website :)
Title: Re: Tonights Speaker - Doug Ellison
Post by: doug on Jan 30, 2010, 09:25:21

     He even seemed to enjoy his beer in the Change afterwards ..... and his chat with us !!!!!!!

     Doug and Rose.
Title: Re: Tonights Speaker - Doug Ellison
Post by: Sue on Jan 30, 2010, 10:14:44
Yes, a superb talk. Thanks to Tony Sizer for organising Doug's visit.