Speaker profile
Dr Jane Clark
MBA PhD CSci CEng FInstP FRAS
Available for booking
Caerphilly / Caerffili, Gwent, Wales
Will travel anywhere in the UK
Amateur Astronomer
Astrophotographer
Science Communicator
Summary
Dr Jane Clark is an experienced multilingual presenter.
Full biography
Retired engineering physicist
Amateur astronomer since 2006, published three books on amateur astronomy, with a fourth in the works.
Languages: English, French, Welsh, some German, Spanish & Hebrew.
Affiliations
Lectures
Measuring Solar System Orbits for Yourself
The Orbit of Mars
This presentation is suited to Student Societies
Astronomy History
For example, biographies of Tycho, Kepler and Newton
Where is the Universe?
This presentation is suitable for the general public and school children.
Photographing Galaxies: My learning Journey
For years I had been trying without success to produce good photos of galaxies from my light-polluted back yard. Eventually I worked out a method, which I have been successfully using ever since. This talk will tell you how I learned to do this.
Adventures in the Infrared
Professionals do infrared astronomy all the time, often with dedicated high-budget equipment. Yet infrared astronomy is not out of reach for amateurs. This talk will show how you can observe things in the infrared for yourself, and find things that are simply not detectable using visible light.
