Wednesday 31st March at 7:30 BST Dr James Carpenter (Exploration Science and Research Coordinator for the European Space Agency’s Directorate of Human and Robotic Exploration):“The Once and Future Moon” A renaissance in lunar exploration is happening, with missions from around the world returning to the Moon to establish humanities first foothold beyond Earth and to […]

The Somerset Levels Stargazers next meeting is 31st March 2021 at 7:30PM This month their guest speaker is Bob Mizon FRAS, presenting Hours of the Night, Astronomical images through the years For a link to the meeting contact somersetlevelsstargazers@hotmail.com Their website is here

We are delighted to invite you to our Online Convention. Unfortunately it wasn’t possible to hold a physical event at the Institute of Astronomy in 2020, though we hope to be able to do so sometime this Autumn. In the meanwhile, we are holding an online Convention on Saturday, April 17, from noon until 4:30 pm. […]

Somerset Levels Stargazers have a zoom meeting coming up this week. Their club members Richard and Sue Horsham will be taking us back to Observatories of old with their talk Ancient Windows on the Skies, John Martin will be continuing his famous figure from Astronomy section with a talk on the Comet Hunter Charles Messier […]

Dark Skies on the Isle of Man by Howard L.G Parkin Wednesday 17th February 2021 at 19:30 About the Lecture: Recently dark sky initiatives have been set up throughout the world. This lecture is based on the Howards involvement in setting up 26 Isle of Man Dark skies Discovery sites, and looks at the way […]

Our Webinar will take place via zoom on the 9th January 2021 at 1:00pm Registration for obtaining the Zoom login link is via Eventbrite To register go to Eventbrite here For more information visit our website here

The International Dark-Sky Association have made The Yorkshire Dales and the North York Moors national parks Dark-Sky Reserves. BBC News The International Dark-Sky Association

The Royal Astronomical Society have launched an online GSCE Astronomy student poster competition. The competition is for GCSE Astronomy students who were supposed to take the 2020 summer exam. Please see the link for more information. The deadline is the 1st Feb 2021. GCSE Student competition