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email: Feb.2.
Duncan
Lunan lecture
on Waverider
at Astronomical Society of Edinburgh, Calton Hill
Observatory (see 1978); ASTRA Shapeshifter lifeboat design
for International Space Station unveiled. Feb.23.
'Cosmology' by Dr. Derryck Case, Keele University, at
Airdrie; first of several speakers from Keele organised by
Greg
Beekman. Mar.20. Visit
to Glasgow Nautical College Planetarium. Apr.6-8.
Duncan
Lunan
lectures on Solar System, UFO's (the Truth about...) and
Green Children mystery, Edinburgh International Science
Festival. Apr.12.
Gagarin anniversary; 'The Megaliths of Powys' by Tony Crerar
(see 1980), Airdrie. Apr.16.
'Heresies in Archaeoastronomy' 2-day conference at Edinburgh
International Science Festival; speakers Archie
Roy, Tony
Crerar, Robert Bauval, Alan Evans, John
Braithwaite,
Duncan
Lunan,
Chris
O'Kane and
students from North Kelvinside Secondary School. Follow-up
meeting at Glasgow Nautical College planetarium,
May 23; second conference 1997 (see below); followed by
article in Analog, March 1998. May 4. AGM,
GCVS. Roddy
Chisholm
appointment ratified. Publications committee formed of
Dave
Allen,
Andy
Nimmo,
Duncan
Lunan; new
series of ASTRA leaflets produced, followed by an Airdrie
set produced by Nick Portwin. May 10.
Andy
Paterson and
Chris
Boyce launch
new discussion project based on Andy's space art,
Airdrie. May 24.
'Keeper of Genesis' lecture by Robert Bauval, Airdrie Arts
Centre. May 31.
'Proteins Structures, Hormones and Sunlight', talk by Prof.
Neil Isaacs, Chemistry Dept., University of Glasgow, at
Airdrie, later repeated at GCVS, Oct.26. June 8.
Airdrie
Public Observatory
Open Day. July. Death of
Dr.
Mary Dawson,
Airdrie member for ten years. July 26-29.
Albacon science fiction convention, Central Hotel, Glasgow;
ASTRA participation including space politics, the future of
human and artificial intelligence, mishaps in space,
Waverider
update, green children talk. Aug.2-3. NASA
unveils LO-FLYTE
Waverider
research vehicle at Oshkosh Air Show, Wisconsin. Aug.11.
Death
of Paul Grant,
Airdrie member for eight years. Sept.6-8.
Article on Green Children mystery in Analog;
Duncan
Lunan
represents ASTRA and lectures on Waverider
and Green Children at Horncastle Astronomy
Weekend. Sept.21-28.
National Astronomy Week. Star party at Drumpellier
Country Park Visitor Centre,
lecture on Green Children by Duncan
Lunan at
Renfrew & District Astronomy Society, discussion meeting
on Spaceguard (detecting impact hazards) at GCVS,
Andy
Paterson
exhibition at Dick Institute, Kilmarnock (not an ASTRA
event, but by an ASTRA member). Sept.30-Dec.7.
ASTRA photo exhibition at 'Surfing the Universe',
Strathclyde University Bicentenary Drama and Science
Festival, Ramshorn Theatre, Glasgow. Space art and science
fiction poetry discussion meeting, Sept.30, and Mars
presentation by Chris
O'Kane and
North Kelvinside students. Oct.4. Sputnik
1 anniversary and 18th anniversary of reopening of
Airdrie
Public Observatory
by Astronomer Royal for Scotland (see
1978).
Airdrie
Public Observatory
reopened by new Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Prof. John
Brown of Glasgow University, former ASTRA member, with
guests from Czechoslovakian Astronomical Institute; Prof.
Brown gave out Volunteers' Week certificates to ASTRA
members. Evening sponsored by Braithwaite
Telescopes. Oct.11.
Chris
O'Kane report
to Airdrie branch on his visit to Giza and Saqqara in Egypt
with Robert Bauval and Graham Hancock for panoramic
photography using the 'Vistamorph' system developed by
Richard McKelvie and himself. Nov.22. Paul
Money, Horncastle Astronomical Society, 'It Came from Mars',
Airdrie. Dec.13.
Anniversary Dinner, Airdrie Arts Centre. 1997
1995
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