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Cotswold Astronomical Society, Founded 1982 Mercury Cotswold Astronomical Mercury Society Volume 18 Issue 1 - May 2002 Comet Ikeya Zhang, by Jack Newton 8/3/2002 (left), 11/3/2002 (right) Occultation of Sat- urn by the Moon on the 16th of April 2002. A great night in the Cotswolds, and many members will have witnessed this unusual event. Inside this issue … These images by John Fletcher. The First Ten Years (Part 2) 2 Celebration of the 45th Anniversary of “Sky at Night” 6 The Asteroid that never was … Was ? 7 Sir Patrick Moore at the Roses Theatre 8 Saturn Occultation Viewing at Whiteshill 8 AGM 2002 - Co-ordinators Annual Report 9 AGM 2002 - Summary of Treasurer and Membership Secretary’s Report 10 AGM Update 10 Dates For Your Diary 12 Mercury - The Newsletter of the Cotswold Astronomical Society, founded 1982 Mercury Editor’s Spot In June we had a visitor from afar, Muriel Enoch a member of the staff By Callum Potter of the Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria British Columbia who described the work of the premier Canadian Astronomy Centre which A much too brief Editor;s Spot this month, but with so much material boasts a 72" telescope, the world's largest for 6 months until the 100" to include superfluous waffle from me is the last thing you want to came on line in 1918. Also that month we had the devastating news read ! that one of our bravest members, Robin Townley, who had spent most Just a quick thought on the latest Space Tourist, Mark Shuttleworth. of his life in a wheel chair yet had managed to get to the most inacces- He spent something like £15million, on his ‘holiday’ in space. But this sible places in his pursuit of astronomy and sites of old aircraft amount of money could fund the research of many astronomers for crashes, had been killed in a road accident in Sussex, returning from many years, or allow us to join some exciting international projects. one of his expeditions around the UK. Robin was a source of inspira- The contribution of Dell Foulkes who has funded the Foulkes robotic tion to us all and it is fitting that he is remembered to this day by the telescopes in Hawaii and Australia for use by school children will annual award of the Robin Townley Trophy for the member who has surely be remembered as a more fitting legacy. made the most contribution to the Society, other than the Co-ordinator or Treasurer/Membership Secretary. So, on with this months great articles ! Another observatory was opened. Dick Warden's fine building com- Clear Skies, plete with C8 at Bredon. Chris and Ken Sheldon boosted the Messier league with a massive opening total of 89 sightings - WOW !! And on a rainy day in July 1987 Nick and Janet tied the knot. A very happy Callum occasion it was too. In fact the summer of 1987 was terrible for astro- ————————————————————————————– nomical observations, yet our numbers grew to over 40 with 8 active observatories. John Fletcher achieved world wide fame when his The First Ten Years (Part 2) photo of Comet Bradfield was published in The Times on November By Tony Ireland 18th; yet another scoop for our remarkable Gloucester Co-ordinator. Dick proudly announced that the Messier count had passed 1300 - and And so to 1987. Alan Wells got us off to a good start with a wonder- Tony had contributed at least six !! fully funny talk on how to observe occultations. One 'Don't' is to mut- ter into your tape recorder in the dark when there are policemen Early in 1988 ASTRONOMY NOW decided to get involved with around - you might get jumped on as a suspect burglar ! (Dick recalled amateur societies around the country by inaugurating the ASTRON- something similar when he and Dan Turton were trying to observe a OMY NOW quiz. We foolishly entered and were drawn away to grazing occultation from a Cotswold Churchyard. Locals reported Reading AS in February. With 20 supporters we set off down the M4 strange goings on and the police were called. They had great difficulty to be kindly received and royally entertained. Sadly we lost by 41 - in understanding that the unlucky pair were not practicing Black 36½. I recall not knowing the brightest Star in the Southern Hemi- Magic !!). sphere - Sirius.... As Bernard said afterwards to fellow grieving partici- pants, Dick, Peter and me, "They just had a bit more 'up there' than we At the 1987 AGM Dick finally relinquished the position of Co- did !". The victors went on to the semi-finals. ordinator to Bernard Abrams, but if we thought we could relax we were gravely mistaken. Bernard's enthusiasm was every bit as frantic John Fletcher went even further afield up to Scotland to spend a week- as Dick's as we aspired to even greater triumphs. For starters Fred end with Andy Packer at St. Andrews University. Andy had already Watkins held a memorable party to celebrate the opening of Grace- come top of his class. John had a fantastic time with their huge refrac- lands Observatory in Charlton Kings, an amazing construction with tor taking his chance with both eyes. It was also about this time that I walls that moved, containing a new Fullersopes 8¾" F 7.3 telescope. began to forge links with a certain Mr. Jack Newton, Astrophotogra- pher supreme, and his wife Alice whom we had met on a visit to Vic- The Cotswold AS was well represented that year again at the BAA toria BC Canada the previous autumn. The links are still there and we weekend where Dick obtained a world exclusive interview with enjoy them greatly. Heather Couper who bewailed the deficiencies of that creaking organi- sation. The dilemma of science versus the needs of amateurs within one Association was discussed at some length. My own memory of that weekend is of the hair-raising journey by car to Winchester in galeforce cross winds. Boy were we glad when we arrived in one piece ! In March 1987 we welcomed a new Astronomy magazine ASTRON- OMY NOW. Even now hardly an edition doesn't go out without a photo or a contribution or mention by a CAS member. In May we scooped more photographic prizes at the FAS AGM returning hot foot from Coventry to 8 Merestones Drive to hear a fascinating talk by wily Brian Manning on astrophotography with almost 30 people crammed into our lounge - minus all doors - and Hilary closing her eyes as he demonstrated liquid developing techniques over our new carpet ! John Fletcher, dissatisfied with his 14½" scope and anxious to com- mence a supernova patrol decided to replace it with a 10" uttering Jack Newton with his 500mm telescope at his Observatory in Victo- those immortal words -" There's no place like ' Dome". Maybe they'll ria British Columbia Canada. It weighed over a ton !! Circa 1990. put that on his tombstone in 40 years time !! John nearly didn't make it back from Fullerscopes in London with the new scope. On the motor- way he was overtaken by a wheel - ONE OF HIS OWN !!! With Schumaker skill he survived and so did the scope. Volume 18, Issue 1 - May 2002 Page 2 Mercury It was at this point we realised that we really could no longer meet in right from the beginning, yet even better editions lay ahead as Ken each other's houses due to increasing numbers at our Cheltenham made use of sophisticated equipment, though Dick continued with the meetings. So we found a most suitable venue at Church House, Pains- actual printing of MERCURY. It was a magazine to be proud of. We wick Road complete with off stage kitchen, a curtained wallscreen, introduced the two trophies mentioned above in memory of Robin and and room for up to 50 people. Everyone seemed pleased with this ar- Dan. Our photographic efforts won yet more awards at the 1989 FAS rangement. Hilary, my wife, was cajoled into providing refreshments convention where we scooped First Prize in the Spaceprints Competi- at each meeting, something she endured for the next 11 years. Peter tion and walked off with £75 to boost our morale and our bank bal- Cadogan started our library which soon grew into a very respectable ance. We recruited a distinguished new member Eric Dodson, star of collection, including magazines and videos. He also took over respon- Stage, Screen, TV (Porridge) and Radio who wrote a fascinating arti- sibility for our Star Atlas. By now we had been joined by the duo of cle on James Bradley, his and our 'local' Astronomer Royal. (I found Derek and Ian Birrell, two members who were to contribute a great out recently that Eric, who was an occasional attending member for deal to the Society in the coming years. But poor Ian's initial talk on about six years until illness forced him to resign, had died after a long Saturn will long be remembered for the chaos of my recalcitrant illness in January 2000. Eric was very appreciative of our Society and (Irish - need we say more) projector which defied all logic in showing the fact we never made a fuss of his fame, and treated him as 'one of his slides in the wrong order, upside down, back to front and occasion- us'. He is another member sadly missed ). ally not all. It was a memorable evening for all the wrong reasons. However, it was 'You know who' who hit the headlines yet again na- Late in 1988 we suffered yet another blow.
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