As a service to our community, Sky & Telescope lists astronomy-related events, including star parties, observatory public nights, astronomy talks, and more. Star parties offer dark skies and astronomical fellowship and often cater to families and feature special activities for kids. Public nights give the general public a chance to view the sky through large telescopes, and public talks are a great place to learn the fundamentals of the science and the craft.
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This is your chance to discuss how the Society operates and to make suggestions about future activities, to approve the annual accounts and to elect the Committee for the forthcoming […]
With the many recent developments in this field Nik will enlighten us and illustrate his talk with many new images.
Hunting Out bursting Young Stars citizen science project. The Hunting Out bursting Young Stars (HOYS) citizen science project collects amateur astronomy data of nearby (<1 kpc), young (<10 Myr) star forming regions to conduct long term multi-filter photometric monitoring. The project aims to obtain one image per filter per region every day. Since the project […]
The Story of the Winchcombe Meteorite Fall The Winchcombe meteorite is the first 'rock from another world' to be recovered in the UK for 30 years. Guided by videos from the UK's meteor and fireball camera networks, the main mass was found on a driveway in Gloucestershire only 12 hours after landing. Over 500 g […]
The Promise of Gravitational Waves Over the past 5 years, a new type of astronomy has found a surprising number of otherwise undetected black holes and an unexpected range of masses. But why did it take 4 decades to detect gravitational waves? And what does the new detector technology offer for the future?
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