{"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":"<p><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\" \/><\/p>\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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\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 The University of York on the 22nd of September. Starting at 9:00am after a short AGM, a whole day of astronomy goodness awaits. There&#8217;s a great line [&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}]}}