Deadline 4th November “The BAAO (BPhO) is running an online competition on Astronomy for schools for students from Year 9 -11. A cross between pub quiz and a small amount of knowledge of the night sky, it is intended to get students looking at the sky and to build upon some of the astronomy knowledge […]
The Vera C Rubin Observatory On Wednesday 11th November at 7:30 pm UK time. The Amazing Rubin Observatory Telescope boasts an 8.4 m mirror coupled with a 3200 megapixel camera taking 1000 pairs of exposures, each image the size of 40 full moons, recording 20 Terabytes of data – every night of its Ten Year […]
Are you curious about Life on Mars? Then this could be for you: The GoSpaceWatch National Astronomy Week Online Lecture. Open to All. Saturday 14 November 2020 at 7:00 pm: “The Clearest View” by Nicholas Booth chronicles Mankind’s search for life on Mars. For the first time in forty years, the world’s space agencies are […]
“My Journey into Astrophotography” by Roger Hyman. 21st October 2020 Roger will be giving his insight on how to start with some basic equipment using a tripod, camera and tracker. Setting up the equipment and producing photographs, time lapses and putting still images into a presentation to show others your work. Full details are on the Eventbrite […]
Persephone: Pluto System Orbiter and Kuiper Belt Explorer Wednesday 7 October 2020 at 7:30 pm UK Time By Dr Carly Howett: Assistant Director of the Department of Space Studies, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado, USA About the Lecture: Persephone is a NASA-funded concept mission study to investigate the feasibility of sending a mission to orbit […]
A virtual Festival this year, and runs from the 4th to the 9th September 2020 Their website The Astronomy programme runs as follows September 4 → 7:30 pm ─ 8:30 pm FINDING PLANETS AROUND OTHER STARS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9aONYE3beM&feature=youtu.be Moray’s astronomy club SIGMA hosts a visit from Prof. Ken Rice of the Royal Observatory Edinburgh and welcome you to […]
The very word ‘society’ implies a social connection between its members. We meet up for lectures, outreach and observing or astro-chats with friends over coffee & biscuits at home or a drink & crisps in the pub. The virus has put strict limits on most of those activities: Group meetings for lectures are impractical for […]
Wednesday 19th August 2020 19:30 – 21:30 BST “The Art of Remote Observing: Social Distancing at its Best!” By Pete Williamson FRAS. Remote Telescopes for Public and Educational use. How to gain access to telescopes and observatories across the globe for private use and for teachers / STEM Ambassadors to use in the classroom. The […]