Online talks for astro soc

[SteveWolves]

Does anybody have experience of hosting online talks during this Covid lockdown? I am a member of Wolverhampton A.S. and I am looking into the practicalities of talks & meetings online until face to face talks can be resumed.

[John]

Bristol AS are having one on Friday. Our scheduled speaker has agreed to present "live" using Zoom. This will be the 3rd virtual meeting we will have had. The other 2 (also using zoom) comprised of a short period of chat followed by pre-recorded presentations which we all watched "together" as it were.

Lowell Observatory have been putting out some good presentations under their "Cosmic Coffee" programme:

https://lowell.edu/event/streaming-cosmic-coffee-houston-weve-got-a-breccia-apollo-13-in-northern-arizona/

I've particularly enjoyed those because I was lucky enough to visit the place last September

Our Chair has proved very good at coordinating these things.

I'll let you know how the Friday session goes.

 

[SteveWolves]

Thanks for that John, yes please let me know how it goes.

Cheers Steve

[Tomatobro]

My wife has regular choir sessions using zoom. The choir organiser holds the account and the record is 29 individuals who have logged in.

The BAA also hold regular zoom and Youtube "webinars" (if that is what they are called) and the Youtube ones are open to all. On the youtube ones about 30 or so folks log in to watch live but they can be watched anytime.

I think the "free" zoom sessions are limited to 40 mins. Zoom seems to run on any vintage machine starting with Win XP.