Somerset Levels Stargazers Virtual Meeting 31st March

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

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FAS April Online Convention

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. […]

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Somerset Levels Stargazers Online meeting 24th February

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 […]

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GoSpaceWatch Online Lecture 17th February 2021

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 […]

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New Dark-Sky Reserves in the UK

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

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RAS GCSE Astronomy poster competition

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

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GoSpaceWatch Online Lecture 16th Dec 2020

OSIRIS-REx: To Bennu and Back! by John Mclean FRAS About the Lecture The story of NASA’s mission to collect a sample of Asteroid Bennu and the reasons why this asteroid is so important. This talk will cover the mission from inception to completion and will feature previously unseen Hi-Res images of Asteroid Bennu as seen during the […]

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