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email: Jan.14. Start
of Duncan
Lunan
'History of Spaceflight' lectures. Jan.28. Start
of Paul Benson 'Basic Astronomy' lectures. Feb.15.
Glasgow lecture, Ian Ridpath, "21 Years of Spaceflight",
Stenhouse Building, University of Strathclyde. Mar.13. Start
of Glasgow Parks Department 'Astronomy in the Parks'
project, to build a working megalithic monument, under the
Jobs Creation programme. Duncan
Lunan
Manager, joined later in the year by John
Braithwaite
and Gavin
Roberts. Mar.22.
Glasgow lecture, Dr. Euan MacKie, 'Megalithic
Astronomy'. Apr. 1.
'Beneath the Exploded Hypothesis' by Erich von Heinekin,
alias Chris
Boyce. Apr.12. First
Annual Dinner, incorporating the Presidential toast, at The
Ubiquitous Chip, Ashton Lane, Glasgow, on the Gagarin
anniversary. Apr.17.
Ed
Buckley
stands down from Presidency. Apr.29. First
run of Chris
Boyce
Extraterrestrial Encounter simulation, part of his work for
his book "Extraterrestrial Encounter, a Personal
Perspective", 1979. May 6. AGM.
Duncan
Lunan becomes
President and Acting Treasurer; Paul Benson Ordinary
Member. June 10. ASTRA
exhibition at Rolls-Royce (Hillington). Open Day; note
worthy for the theft of NASA Apollo-Soyuz poster, for which
£25 compensation paid. This was important because it
set the scale for our insurance claim when a large number of
posters were stolen at the 1987 Worldcon. June 24. Large
ASTRA contingent on Astronomical Society of Glasgow tour of
standing stone sites in Argyllshire. Aug. 25 - Sept.
9. ASTRA exhibition on the three weekends of the
Edinburgh Festival, at Calton Hill Observatory, jointly with
the Astronomical Society of Edinburgh. Display boards of
photographs mounted by Gavin
Roberts.
Lectures by Duncan
Lunan ('The
Next Century in Space') and Dr. David Antia, Glasgow
University, ('The Resources of the Moon', Sept.
2nd). Sept. Second
issue of Asgard, including first half of Waverider
paper and an extract from "Lanark", by Alasdair Gray. After
this publication had to be stopped for lack of
funds. Sept.13. Visit
to H.M.S. Gannet Royal Navy helicopter station,
Prestwick. Oct. Jean
Coles becomes Astronomy Project Secretary. Oct. 2. 21st
Anniversary of Spaceflight week begins. Lectures to school
parties by Duncan
Lunan, Ian
Ridpath, Chris
Boyce and
John
Braithwaite,
at Cardonald and other Glasgow libraries, organised by
Glasgow Parks Astronomy Project for National Children's Book
Week. Oct. 4. ASTRA
exhibition at Airdrie Library; Airdrie
Public Observatory
reopened by Prof. Vincent Reddish, Astronomer Royal for
Scotland. Ian
Downie and
Paul Benson appointed curators, with quarterly honorarium
from Monklands District Council. Oct. 5. A
record 187 people, mostly children, came (voluntarily!) to a
planned observing session at Cardonald Library, even though
the weather was dreadful. The exhibition then went to
Cardonald, on Oct. 9th, and was on loan to the Astronomy
Project for most of the next year, until cut up for the
photos to be reused in the High Frontier
exhibition. Oct.29.
Astronomy Project symposium on megalithic astronomy at the
Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, now directed by Chris Carrel (see
1973), with whom the Project and ASTRA were now working on
the High Frontier exhibition. Speakers include Dr. Euan
MacKie, Dr. Archie Thom, John
Braithwaite,
Duncan
Lunan, Chris
Jennings. Nov.10.
Archie
Roy, 'The
Lamps of Atlantis', at Airdrie Library. Dec. 9. Start
of 'Colonisation Game' meetings for the High Frontier
exhibition. Dec.23. Draw
for fund-raising raffle organised by John
Braithwaite
with telescope prizes. At the year end, the
Astronomy Project became a much expanded' Astronomy and
Space Education' project, financed by the Manpower Services
Commission under the Special Temporary Employment Programme.
The staff was expanded to 10, including Bill Braithwaite,
Ian
Downie, Ann
Clark and Richard Robertson. 1979
1977
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