Society visit to Royal Observatory Greenwich, Sun. 6th Oct..

[Sue]

Sunday 6th October.A date for your diaries!
Society visit to the Royal Observatory Greenwich is being organised.
To include a semi-guided tour by our President Gilbert Satterthwaite FRAS and a presentation in the Planetarium during the afternoon.
More details to follow.

[Mike]

Great !

[Whitters]

Sue what time will that be, I will be coming back from the lakes that day and wondered if I could make it.

[Sue]

Paul, we were thinking of an afternoon visit, meeting for lunch ( at pub or museum restaurant) before hand as an option.

[Rick]

I'll be a bit too far away to get there on Sunday, but I hope you all have a good time.

[Sue]

Update, in case anyone is reading this but has missed details on main web page,we are meeting at 10:30, with planetarium presentation at 12:40.

[Greg]

Thanks for that Sue. I nearly forgot. Oh by the way, Gilbert has got permission to demonstrate the transit telescope!!

Excellent

[Sue]

Wonderful!

[Mike]

Forgive me for my ignorance, but what's a transit telescope ?

[Rick]

A transit telescope has only a declination axis, movement in RA being provided by the Earth's rotation, and is used for timing the meridian transits of objects.