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email: Jan.16.
Duncan
Lunan at Hull
L5 Society to discuss their joining ASTRA as a branch,
thereby to share affiliation to NSS. Feb.26-28.
ASTRA poster exhibition at Lucon science fiction convention,
University of Leeds. Bob Shaw and Duncan
Lunan guest
of honour. Mar.4. Ian
Ridpath, 'Comets and Comet Halley', at Airdrie. Mar.11. Dr.
Fiona Vincent of Mills Observatory, Dundee, 'An Astronomer
in Africa', at Airdrie. ASTRA re-affiliates to Scottish
Astronomers Group. Mar.18.
Richard Robertson of Style Dials, Skye, formerly draughtsman
on Parks Astronomy Project, 'Making Sundials', at
Airdrie. Mar.19. Hull
L5 Society votes to become a branch of ASTRA. Membership
worldwide breaks 200 for the first time. May 13-14.
Major Waverider conference with Jim
Randolph of
JPL and Prof.
Nonweiler.
Technical all-day meeting at Glasgow University Union, room
4, on Friday, afternoon briefing hosted by James Howden
& Son on Saturday, followed by Annual Dinner and
Presidential toast to spaceflight at Miller St. Catering
Company, with record attendance of 34, followed by ceilidh
at the Riverside Club, Fox Street. Proceedings published in
July '88 Spacereport. May 21. AGM at
Miller St. Catering Co.. Stewart Liddell elected
Treasurer. June 11. Open
Day at Airdrie
Public Observatory
during Monklands Festival, with exhibition by Royal
Observatory, Edinburgh, and display of sundials by Richard
Robertson. June 15. ASTRA
team (Duncan
Lunan,
Willie
Fleming,
Janet Laurie) win £25 in L'Academie general knowledge
quiz. July. Truro
Space Frontier Society votes to become ASTRA branch, as
Space Association of Truro. July 29-Aug.1.
Albacon 88, with ASTRA 'Vikings and Mars' exhibition, and
programme events including Waverider
update; talk by John Bonsor on Gaia Hypothesis; panels on
Greenhouse Effect, life on Mars, terraforming Mars,
exploring Mars - all because of the close opposition and the
50th anniversary of the 'War of the Worlds' broadcast.
Waverider T-shirts on sale, designed by Gordon
Dick (now
known as Gordon Ross). Prof. Heinz Wolff one of the guests
of honour. Aug.6. 6-inch
reflector installed at Kelburn Country Centre. Aug.12-26.
Chris
O'Kane and
Lorna
Napier visit
Pat Jones in Big Bear Lake, and Big Bear Lake Solar
Observatory; Dr. Louis Friedman, Planetary Society, and
Dr.
Jim Randolph,
JPL, Pasadena; and Kennedy Space Centre. Aug.21.
Teddy-Bear rocket launch at Kelburn Country
Centre. Aug.26-29.
Scottish Rocket Weekend at Kelburn, with participation by
Largs and Airdrie members. August. ASTRA
exhibition at Giffnock Public Library. Sept.21-Oct.15.
Space & Astronomy Week Plus at Kelburn Country Centre,
with exhibition, talks and observing Mars at close
opposition. Sept. At
request of discoverer Eleanor Helin, asteroid 3817 is named
after Len
Carter of the
BIS. Oscar's turn will come... Oct.8. Council
meeting: Danny
Kane co-opted
to Council. Nov.18. Graham
Kerr of Glasgow University, 'Gravity Waves' at
Airdrie. Dec.2.
Anniversary dinner at Tudor Hotel, Airdrie, to commemorate
35 years of the society, 25 years of independence, and ten
years of Airdrie meetings. Dec.17.
Historical meeting hosted by James Howden & Son, by
courtesy of Peter
Jamieson.
Never to be forgotten because the first draft of this
history, the projector and all ASTRA's historical slides
were left in the taxi at the outset by a guest from Hatfield
Polytechnic, and not recovered for several weeks. Peter took
the company to see the Channel Tunnel drilling machines
instead. Followed by Anniversary dinner at the Gandhi
restaurant in Sauchiehall St.. 1989
1987
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