Talk:Royal Astronomical Society

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Help with this template Comments: edit – history – watch – refresh I have now added quite a lot of information to this article, but I wouldn't claim that it does not need work. Perhaps a long standing member could be persuaded to join our cause and help with the writing of this article. ought to turn out interesting, after all, it's astronomy! :-> Pulsar 22:13, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Well done, Rob! I've made a few changes to round out the entry a little further and to reflect the work of the RAS in the geophysical sciences. I've removed a slight inaccuracy in the previous version -- the Society's rules for award of medals are rather more complicated than "one medal for astronomy; one medal for geophysics", as implied there, but it certainly isn't worth going into the arcane details in a Wikipedia entry! It might be worth mentioning one or two of the geophysical eminences who have received the Gold Medal (Harold Jeffreys, for sure; Sidney Chapman must surely have received one, too). I'll come back to that later.

I've also inserted entries for one or two of the stubs that this edit has developed.

Russ Evans 26/12/03

[edit] Patrick Moore as President?

I rather doubt this. It's not mentioned in his Who's Who (UK) entry. --Runcorn 19:44, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Establishment category?

The RAS is currently in the cateogory '1831 establishments'. Should it be in '1820 establishments' instead? --Robminchin 00:03, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Astronomical Society of London is 1820. The Royal charter was in 1831. People looking in the 1820 category might expect to find the RAS. People looking in the 1831 category might also expect to find it. I think categorising the redirect will do. Carcharoth 17:12, 24 October 2007 (UTC)