Speaker: Hugh Allen

Hugh Allen will use his own images and spectroscopic observations to illustrate the impact of binary stars on the history and science of astronomy. Hugh Allen is an industrial chemist with a career in the printing ink industry, having studied Natural Sciences at Downing College, Cambridge. His interest in astronomy became a passion when his wife bought him a telescope in 2008. He started with visual observing and then astrophotography. Since 2013 spectroscopy has become his focus. Hugh is Chairman of the Wells & Mendip Astronomers and a member of the Herschel Society in Bath.

Please note later start time. This is a joint lecture with Wessex Astronomical Society (WAS).