Lest anyone is interested to know what talks I am currently offering, here is my description of options below - I have discovered that I need some a description to send out to clubs!

Options for talks as below – please let me know which one you prefer = each can be from 40-60 minutes in length, as needed by the audience – it is important that I am given notice if children under 16 are likely to be present, so that I can include age-relevant content to suit their needs as well as rest of the audience.

Talks are designed to suit a range of audience members’ knowledge and experience, from basic to reasonably advanced, with the intention of presenting something to interest everyone. However, if an audience is of a single knowledge/skill level, then please let me know so that I can ensure the talk matches that group’s needs as closely as possible.

Andy

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Radioastronomy talks

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*Introduction to radio astronomy for amateur astronomers*

*Mapping the Milky Way at 1420MHz hydrogen radio line, and how to do this at home* - this was talk given at International Astronomy Show and which is also being given at the Radio Society of Great Britain Convention on 13 October 2024.

*How to record meteors by radio meteor scatter and measure the exact peaks of meteor showers*

*Solar flares and sudden ionospheric disturbances*

*Detecting cosmic muons in your own house* - this was talk given at Astrofest 2024 in Kensington, London.

*Introduction to spectroscopy for amateur astronomers*

*3-D printing your own spectrometer and spectrohelioscope at home - Introduction to the Sol'Ex project*

*Other projects - listening to Jupiter, making your own cloud chamber, listening to radio conversations? between ISS and Earth, building a magnetometer*

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In addition, I can offer:

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*Photographing a boiling kettle: Taking and processing solar astrophotos and time-lapses*

*An idiot's guide to finding the way around the night sky: star-hopping for those with no sense of direction*

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I am on to thinking of others - but if you have any particular topics you want a talk on then that might stimulate me to write it for you!

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Andy