FASLAS

Furness and South Lakeland Astronomical Society

Programme for season 2025/2026

The venue for meetings will be:
Abbey Road Baptist Church, corner of Abbey Road and Park Drive,
Barrow-in-Furness, LA13 9BD.
Now meeting in the upper room (up the stairs on the right, inside the door)

Date of meeting All meetings at 7:30pm
Please return to this page regularly to see any updates.
5th September 2025 Dr Mark Norris - UCLAN
Our Cosmic Origins
10th September 2025 Dr. Robin Catchpole - Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
The making of the elements
7:30pm at Barrow Town Hall, Duke Street, Barrow-in-Furness
organised by IMechE, PESC and IET
Free entry - all welcome
3rd October 2025 Peter Wade - Lecturer in Popular Astronomy
An A-Z of Astronomy
27th October 2025 Observing evening with Cumbria Wildlife Trust
8pm at The Red Hut, Sandscale Haws (Roanhead)
nb if weather causes a postponement the event will be rescheduled for another evening
during this week (27 October to 2nd November 2025).
7th November 2025 George Greenyer and Joe Kinrade - Lancaster University
tba
12th November 2025 Dame Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell - University of Oxford
The Discovery of Pulsars
7:30pm at Barrow Town Hall, Duke Street, Barrow-in-Furness
organised by IMechE, PESC and IET
Free entry - all welcome
5th December 2025 Alaric Thompson - Member FSLAS
Turning Points in Astronomy - the most powerful dicoveries throughout history
9th January 2026 Ian Palmer - visitor to FSLAS
Gravity - Serious Science
nb one week later than normal due to Bank Holiday
6th February 2026 Alexia Marie Lopez - UCLAN
'Ultra-Large Scale Structures in Cosmology: the Gaint Arc and the Big Ring'
6th March 2026 Prof. Victor Debattista - UCLAN
tba
10th April 2026 Quiz Night
Visitor Neil Alldridge will qyuiz us for our astro' knowledge nb one week later than normal due to Bank Holiday
8th May 2026 Lionel Wilson - Lancaster University
(recorded video talk)
Moon Update
nb one week later than normal due to Bank Holiday

No meetings will be held during June, July or August 2026.