{"id":1523,"date":"2018-08-22T08:48:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T08:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2018-08-22T09:07:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T09:07:55","slug":"fas-convention-22nd-september-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/fas-convention-22nd-september-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"FAS Convention &#8211; 22nd September 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"http:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/cropped-fas_logo.png\" width=\"153\" height=\"153\" \/>\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Federation of Astronomical Societies<\/a><\/strong> is holding it&#8217;s annual <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/2018-convention-agm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AGM and convention.<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong>Click on the white text above for more details.<\/p>\n<p>This year it is being held at <span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>The University of York<\/strong><\/span> on the <span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>22nd of September.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Starting at 9:00am after a short AGM, a whole day of astronomy goodness awaits.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a great line up of speakers for the day:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prof. Mike Cruise \u2013 The Gravitational Sky.<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Katherine Blundell OBE \u2013 Black holes and spin-offs.<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Brad Gibson \u2013 How the Universe will end\u2026<\/li>\n<li>Charles Barclay \u2013 Reaching for the Stars \u2013 Developing the British entry for the Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad.<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Ian Robson \u2013 The Changing Scene in Astronomy.<\/li>\n<li>Prof. John C. Brown OBE \u2013 Sun Plunging Comets (Hypersonic Snowballs in Hell).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There will also be a number of trade stands, including yours truly.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">So come along, say &#8220;Hi&#8221; and feel and sniff comet 67P.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tickets are \u00a36 for members of Affiliated Astronomical Societies, or \u00a38 if not.<\/p>\n<p>Book your tickets for the FAS Convention by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/convention-2018-booking-form\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clicking Here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federation of Astronomical Societies is holding it&#8217;s annual AGM and convention. Click on the white text above for more details. This year it is being held at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"FAS Convention - 22nd September 2018 - Star-Gazing","description":"The Federation of Astronomical Societies is holding it's annual AGM and convention. Click on the white text above for more details. This year it is being held a"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1527,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions\/1527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}