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Managed to bag Venus this evening about eight minutes before it was due to set, probably the earliest I have seen this planet after superior conjunction (31 days ago)? Peter

Wiltshire AS speaker for May 4th will be Martin Griffiths giving a talk about 'The Big Bang, Evidence & Establishment' The meeting will be done by Zoom with a start time of 20:00, if you are interested in watching to this presentation you will need to contact Andy Burns (club chairperson) at anglesburn@hotmail.com to get access info? Peter Chappell

Wiltshire AS speaker for April 6th will be Paul Money giving a talk about 'Triumph's of Voyager (pt 2) - Where no probe has gone before' The meeting will be done by Zoom with a start time of 20:00, if you are interested in watching to this presentation you will need to contact Andy Burns (club chairperson) at anglesburn@hotmail.com to get access info? Peter Chappell

Excellent video Mark, sounds very temping to go out there sometime? Peter

Wiltshire AS speaker for March 2nd will be Pete Williamson giving a talk about 'The Moon & Moons of the Solar System' The meeting will be done by Zoom with a start time of 20:00, if you are interested in watching to this presentation you will need to contact Andy Burns (club chairperson) at anglesburn@hotmail.com to get access info? Peter Chappell

Wiltshire AS speaker for February 2nd will be Professor David Southwood giving a talk about 'Moon & Mars: Next giant step' The meeting will be done by Zoom with a start time of 20:00, if you are interested in watching to this presentation you will need to contact Andy Burns (club chairperson) at anglesburn@hotmail.com to get access info? Peter Chappell

Wiltshire AS speaker for January 5th will be Paul Money giving a talk about 'Triumph's of Voyager (part 2): Where no probe has gone before' The meeting will be done by Zoom with a start time of 20:00, if you are interested in watching this presentation you will need to contact Andy Burns (club chairperson) at anglesburn@hotmail.com to get access info? Peter Chappell

Wiltshire AS speaker for December 1st will be Dr Lilian Hobbs giving a talk about 'Eisa Eisinga: The Planetarium in the Bedroom' The meeting will be done by Zoom with a start time of 20:00, if you are interested in watching to this presentation you will need to contact Andy Burns (club chairperson) at anglesburn@hotmail.com to get access info? Peter Chappell

Wiltshire AS speaker for November 3rd will be Andrew Lound giving a presentation about 'A Jupiter Odyssey' The meeting will be done by Zoom with a start time of 20:00, if you are interested in watching to this presentation you will need to contact Andy Burns (club chairperson) at anglesburn@hotmail.com to get access info? Peter Chappell

Wiltshire AS speaker for October 6th will be Martin Griffiths talking about 'The Big Bang, Evidence & Establishment' The meeting will be done by Zoom with a start time of 20:00, if you are interested in listening to this talk you will need to contact Andy Burns (club chairperson) at anglesburn@hotmail.com to get access info? Peter Chappell

Wiltshire AS speaker for September 1st will be Nick Howes talking about 'How do you solve a problem like Debris - Ahh? The meeting will be done by Zoom with a start time of 20:00, if you are interested in listening to this talk you will need to contact Andy Burns (club chairperson) at anglesburn@hotmail.com to get access info? Peter Chappell

We were due to have Pete Williamson talking about Moon's of the Solar System on 7th of April but unfortunately with Covid-19 on the loose, the meeting has been cancelled and now put back until early 2021? Peter

Our speaker for March 3rd will be Dr Lilian Hobbs talking about 'Armchair Messier Marathon' the meeting will be held at the Pavilion, Rusty Lane, Seend Nr Melksham SN12 6NS with a start time of 20:00. At end of the meeting there will be tea/coffee and biscuits, all welcome. More details are at www.wasnet.co.uk Peter

Our speaker for February 4th will be Jon Gale (aka AstroNinja on SGL) talking about 'Observing the Herschel 400' the meeting will be held at the Pavilion, Rusty Lane, Seend Nr Melksham SN12 6NS with a start time of 20:00. At end of the meeting there will be tea/coffee and biscuits, all welcome. More details are at www.wasnet.co.uk Peter PS It took me about five years to observe all 400 on the list, some were hard to locate?

Our speaker for December 3rd will be Dr Dirk Froebrich talking about 'Making Stars & Planets - The HOYS-CAPS Citizen Science Project' the meeting will be held at the Pavilion, Rusty Lane, Seend Nr Melksham SN12 6NS with a start time of 20:00. At end of the meeting there will be tea/coffee and biscuits, all welcome. More details are at www.wasnet.co.uk Peter

Our speaker for November 5th will be Andrew Lound giving a presentation about 'Uranus - George's Planet' the meeting will be held at the Pavilion, Rusty Lane, Seend Nr Melksham SN12 6NS with a start time of 20:00. At end of the meeting there will be tea/coffee and biscuits, all welcome. More details are www.wasnet,co,uk Peter

Hello and welcome to SGL, All new scopes come with a free 'Box of Clouds', they escape when box is opened! Peter

Our speaker for October 1st will be Dr Chris Pearson talking about 'Ariel & Alien Worlds: Enabling planetary science across light years', the meeting will be held at the Pavilion, Rusty Lane, Seend Nr Melksham SN12 6NS with a start time of 20:00. At end of the meeting there will be tea/coffee and biscuits, all welcome. More details are www.wasnet,co,uk Peter

I was also at the same place, great views of the eclipse and the weather was very clear. Notice the temperature dropped pretty quickly when the sun got near the horizon? Peter

Our first speaker of the new season will be Steve Tonkin talking about 'Time & Calandars', the meeting will be held at the Pavilion, Rusty Lane, Seend Nr Melksham SN12 6NS with a start time of 20:00. At the end of Steve's talk tell will be a short AGM followed by tea/coffee and biscults, all welocome. More details are www.wasnet,co,uk Peter

Thank you the comments folks and the long answer to my problem Sandy. As you might guess I am not that great with computer software but will go thru your suggestions one step at a time and see what happens, will report back later. Peter

Hi Sandy, Thank you for the link, which drivers would I need to download, using Windows 7 currently? Peter

We do have a meeting in December each year since I have been the speaker person for this club?

Hello SGL, Tonight I uploaded Stellarium 0.19 version, every time I try to open it it seems to crash after coming up with a warning (picture below), could somebody explain this statement to me in simple English (if possible please?) and how i can over come it. I have tried it in 32 and 64 bit version but have same problem. Thank you for looking. Peter

Wiltshire AS speaker for June will be SGL's Owen Brazell talking about 'Observing Planetary Nebula', the meeting will be held at the Pavilion, Rusty Lane, Seend nr Melksham SN12 6NS with a start time of 20:00 on the 4th. All welcome. Peter