Equipment

Special Guests

Here are some names of note who have visited the Centre.

 

GAC has welcomed individual members of the Dundee AS

over the years. This time we welcomed a group of seven

members - Pam, Dave, Mike, Ken, Phil, Steve & Allan

(who missed the picture). Four stayed at the Centre, the

others at a local B&B. Despite poor weekend weather

everyone enjoyed the sightseeing and the time to sit and

talk astronomy. We look forward to seeing them all again in

the future..

We were very pleased to welcome Claire Price - familiar to

many as DS Siobhan Clark in the TV series “Rebus”. Claire

enjoyed an evening observing the gems of the Autumn sky

and also a spectacular fireball. Then up earty to see Venus,

Mars and Saturn plus the Orion Nebula.

We welcomed Louise and Simon of the Star Centre,

brownies, guides and school children through the extensive

exhibition. Here they learn about science by undertaking

space missions or even driving a remote control rover

across a realistic Mars landscape.

Simon uses his radio amateur experience to receive live

weather satellite imagesor communicate with the ISS. With

clear skies each night they made the most of it observing

deep sky objects, watched the Shuttle launch, the passage

We were pleased to welcome Ian Morison, who is

Operations Engineer at Jodrell Bank Observatory and

Gresham College lecturer in Astronomy. He is very well

known to astronomical societies across the country.

Unusual in professional astronomy Ian owns several

telescopes and is an active observer, Ian very much

enjoyed his stay and using the Centre's 16 inch telescope.

Ian returned in 2009 while he was giving a lecture at the

Wigtownshire AS Astroday.

We have often worked with Dave Chalton and Dr Stewart

Lynn (right) of the Royal Observatory Edinburgh on

outreach projects. While booked for the Wigtownshire AS

Astroday both decided it was the perfect opportunity to

stay at the Centre. Dave was operating the Starlab an

inflatable planetarium which thrilled adults and children.

While Stewart gave a facinating lecture on whether or not

Dark Matter and Dark Engergy really exist.

We had a beautiful night for viewing DSOs with the 16”

telescope.