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This is a joint meeting with Thinktank: Birmingham Science Museum

Mark Edwards relates how a leading radio observatory developed by chance at Manchester University’s Jodrell Bank site.

About the Speaker

Mark Edwards is a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and studied radio astronomy at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in the 1970s before working as a software engineer at Marconi in Coventry where he helped to develop the System X local telephone exchanges for BT.

Now retired, Mark continues to follow his interest in astronomy by making daily observations of the ionosphere and presenting monthly skynotes at the Coventry and Warwickshire Astronomical Society.