North Lincs astro meeting. 7th November 2016

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Around 25 attended the North Lincs astro meeting at Far ings on November 2016. Sadly the speaker was unable to attend, but we were rescued by Chris Roche filling the gap with an excellent 30 minute talk on Exo Planets. He gave us an excellent insight into the different ways they are detected and how we are even able to have an understanding on their composition, size and even wind speed.

Before the talk a few of us braved the cold conditions to have some excellent views of the Moon through Paul Cottons 9.25″ Celestron SCT and Nigel’s 25×100 Helios binoculars. We all commented on how good the seeing conditions were

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