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email: Jan. Abridged
version of Duncan
Lunan
Waverider paper published in 'Journal of the British
Interplanetary Society'. Jan.28.
Gordon
Dick (now
known as Gordon Ross) and John Bonsor submit plan to ASTRA
for Waverider Aerodynamic Study Programme, at 'The Shape of
Waveriders to Come', Ayrshire Branch Meeting, hosted by Ron
Williams at 7a Silverdale Gdns., Largs. Feb.27.
Duncan
Lunan, 'The
Moons of Saturn', at High Frontier, Baird Institute, Cumnock
(postponed from Feb. 6). Mar.6. John
Boyes, 'The New Soviet Space Museum', at High Frontier,
Uddingston Library. Exhibition continued until March 20 with
talks by Duncan
Lunan,
Ian
Downie and
Robert
Law. Apr.17. 'An
ASTRONOMICAL LECTURE, by J.BRAITHWAITE,
Gent., accompanied by lantern slides featuring the LATE
COMET of 1862'. May 1. AGM.
Linda Lunan leaves ASTRA Council. John Bonsor co-opted to
Council as Ayrshire Branch representative. Ian Chalmers
later co-opted as new Treasurer. May 25.
Ayrshire Branch founds its own astronomy section. May 29-June 5.
High Frontier at Old Court Room, Airdrie, with lectures by
Duncan
Lunan, John
Bonsor, Robert
Law and
John
Boyes. Oscar
and I produced a High Frontier special issue of Spacereport,
but ironically the exhibition was now to cease touring and
with Linda, David
Proffitt and
Jean Coles no longer on the publications committee,
Spacereport was also suspended. June 18.
Kit
Weinrichter
represents ASTRA at STS-7 Space Shuttle launch, and
afterwards (November) at STS-9 landing, Edwards Air Force
Base. No reports published because Spacereport not in
production. July 20.
Ayrshire Branch public observing session of partial solar
eclipse. Aug.22.
Oscar
Schwiglhofer
at Unispace 82 United Nations conference in Vienna. This was
when Oscar discovered that unknown to him, his old
university had awarded him an honorary professorship in
1948, for translation of mining laws from Hungarian to
replace those of the Nazi occupation. Sept.
Following the resignation of Paul Benson,
Oscar
Schwiglhofer
and Robert
Law appointed
Airdrie
Public Observatory
Curators. Oct.2. ASTRA
hosts Scottish Astronomers' Group annual meeting at Hamilton
rooms, on the theme 'Scottish amateur involvement in
Halley's Comet'. Due to a sharp rise in fares and petrol
costs, this was to be the last well attended meeting in
Hamilton. Dec.21. Having
lost the annual appeal against rent and rates increases, we
were forced to give up the Hamilton rooms. During the move,
Oscar and I took an hour off to go into Glasgow and see the
midwinter sunset over my megalith, which had never been
observed before. ASTRA's best furniture, library and photo
collection went to Largs to be housed by John Bonsor; the
rest of the furniture was left to the Hamilton Sub-Aqua
Club, with whom we had negotiated unsuccessfully to share
premises. 1983
1981
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