{"id":720,"date":"2018-01-05T13:37:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T13:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astronomyforall.co.uk\/?page_id=720"},"modified":"2020-02-06T14:06:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T14:06:00","slug":"upcoming-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/astronomyforall.co.uk\/?page_id=720","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">October 2020<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Level one astronomy course commences<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #bd1d7d;\"><strong>Rossall Speaker Series: Moon Watcher<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<em>Monday 24<sup>th<\/sup> February 2020, doors open 7.00pm for 7:30pm start<br \/>\n\u00a310 per person or \u00a325 for 3-lecture series<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Explore our beautiful, natural satellite, The Moon. This most majestic night sky object is often overlooked, yet is free to view for all of us. Through a history of observation and exploration, learn some surprising facts and map the Moon for yourself. This \u2018How? Why? When?\u2019 session on the Moon will see you leave knowing exactly what you\u2019re looking at and hopefully foster a greater appreciation for our neighbouring rock.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rossall.org.uk\/astronomy-lecture-series\/\">CLICK HERE TO BOOK<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #bd1d7d;\">May 2020<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #bd1d7d;\"><strong>Rossall Speaker Series: Star Trek: Fact or Fiction?<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<em>Monday 18th May 2020, doors open 7.00pm for 7:30pm start<br \/>\n\u00a310 per person or \u00a325 for 3-lecture series<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In the final lecture in our Astronomy series, we explore the ins and outs of space travel and delve into Gene Roddenberry\u2019s Star Trek universe. How much of the fictional adventures are actually fact? Can we really travel at \u2018Warp factor 10\u2019, and can we really have Scotty \u2018beam\u2019 us up, and if not, why not?<br \/>\nWhile the Starship Enterprise is still a work of fiction, find out how we\u2019d benefit from the technology in reality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rossall.org.uk\/astronomy-lecture-series\/\">CLICK HERE TO BOOK<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #bd1d7d;\">TBC<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #bd1d7d;\"><strong>The Sir Francis Graham-Smith Annual Lecture<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sir Francis is an Ex Astronomer Royal, and an Old Rossallian.<br \/>\nA wonderful link to Rossall&#8217;s heritage and that of Lawrence House, Sir Francis also formally opened the Astronomy Centre in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 2020 Level one astronomy course commences Rossall Speaker Series: Moon Watcher Monday 24th February 2020, doors open 7.00pm for 7:30pm start \u00a310 per person or \u00a325 for 3-lecture series Explore our beautiful, natural satellite, The Moon. This most majestic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astronomyforall.co.uk\/?page_id=720\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomyforall.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomyforall.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomyforall.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomyforall.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomyforall.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/astronomyforall.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":826,"href":"https:\/\/astronomyforall.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/720\/revisions\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomyforall.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}