RAS survey of community astronomy outreach

The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is carrying out a survey of outreach and public engagement work in schools, science centres and other community settings. This exercise is not intended to cover work carried out by professional scientists in higher education and government research facilities so astronomical societies are within the target audience for the survey. […]

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Member Societies Websites competition

Most of the astronomical societies in the FAS operate their own websites. So the FAS Council decided to review all the member societies websites and pick what it thought were the top 3 websites. We did not tell you about this in advance because we wanted to judge the websites as they currently are. The […]

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FAS Convention 2011

The 2011 FAS Convention will be held at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, on Saturday 15th October. Speakers include Carolin Crawford, Nick Hewitt, Nik Szymanek, Prof. Albert Zijlstra and Lord Martin Rees. Tickets are £5 and can be purchased on the door. More information on the convention pages.

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Follow us…

You can now follow the FAS on twitter – you will find daily updates of society events and any important FAS news on there – just follow @fedastro

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Society Renewal Information

For this year’s renewal we will be using our newly developed online system. All FAS member societies have been emailed (to the nominated society contact) the instructions to complete this. If you believe you are this contact please check with your society committee to ensure that you are the nominated person. If you believe you […]

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New Member Societies

The FAS would like to welcome a new member societies, Cockermouth Astronomical Society and William Herschel Society

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Change of name

Two of our member societies have had a change of name, these are: West Norfolk to Kings Lynn & Wigtownshire to Galloway Forest

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