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joined the Scottish branch of the BIS in 1962, at the same
time as Prof.
Nonweiler. He was on the
committee which drew up the-Constitution of ASTRA as an
independent society in 1963, and redrafted it as the
Memorandum and Articles of a Company Limited by Guarantee in
1974. He has been a Council member since December 1963 with
only two short breaks, and has been Treasurer, President,
Vice-P resident, Treasurer, President, Secretary and
President again during that time. He has been exhibition
organiser and on the publications committee since 1970,
editing ASTRA's publications in 1982 and 1992-96. Duncan is a full-time writer on
astronomy, space flight and science fiction; his books
include "Man and the Stars", "New Worlds for Old" and "Man
and the Planets", created as book projects within the
society, and he had guest chapters in the other two books
published with ASTRA participation, "Extraterrestrial
Encounter" by Chris Boyce and "The High Frontier" edited by
Bob Low. His current book project, "Children from the Sky",
was an ASTRA discussion project in 1994-95 and he will write
the text for the current project, Andy
Paterson's 'Millennium Book'
of space art. In 1978-79 he was Manager of the
Glasgow Parks Dept. Astronomy Project, which built the first
astronomically aligned stone circle in Britain for 5000
years, and among many other ASTRA conferences he organised
one on archaeoastronomy at the Third Eye Centre in 1978,
'Heresies in Archaeoastronomy' at the Edinburgh
International Science Festival in 1996 and its follow-up
events in Glasgow. He was Acting Curator of
Airdrie
Public Observatory in 1979-80
and was Assistant Curator between 1987 to 1997. Next
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