Next Informal Meeting
2025-06-02 20:00 - 22:00, 2025-07-07 20:00 - 22:00, 2025-08-04 20:00 - 22:00, 2025-09-01 20:00 - 22:00, 2025-10-06 20:00 - 22:00, 2025-11-03 20:00 - 22:00, 2026-01-05 20:00 - 22:00, 2026-02-02 20:00 - 22:00 UTC and 6 more dates
Primarily an Observing Evening. If not clear then general discussion, help for those who require it.

Astronomy Workshops
2025-06-16 20:00 - 22:00
A series of Astronomy Workshop presentations on telescopes, astro-photography and image processing.

Ben Evans - 'Spacewalking: 60 years of Stepping Into the Void'
2025-07-21 20:00 - 22:00

Rob Januszewski “Amateur Astronomy- the Future”
2025-08-18 20:00 - 22:00

Mike Frost 'SouthWest Special - a Bluebonnet Eclipse'
2025-09-15 20:00 - 22:00

StarParty
2025-09-19 08:00 - 2025-09-21 23:30
This is a great event for members to get together and a chance to enjoy relatively dark skies with an opportunity to see the Milky Way. Please check your email for details on how to book.

Dr Ben Gompertz - Neutron Star Mergers: Nature's Gold Factories
2025-10-20 20:00 - 22:00

Gary Poyner - T CrB - The Jewel In The Crown
2025-11-17 20:00 - 22:00

Christmas Quiz at Court Leet
2025-12-01 19:30 - 22:00

'Christmas Crackers' Short Talks By Members
2025-12-15 20:00 - 22:00
Christmas Crackers
Sheila Derges – “A visit to CERN”
Sue Dipple – “The Thirty Metre Telescope”
Dr Steve Barrett – “The Science of Santa”

Dave Jones - Pluto
2026-01-19 20:00 - 22:00

Dr Steve Barrett - 'Gaia'
2026-02-16 20:00 - 22:00
The Gaia space telescope has spent a decade mapping the Milky Way by making three trillion observations of two billion stars. How did it do this and what will we learn when all the data is analysed?

Dr Steve Barrett - It's Not Rocket Science
2026-03-16 20:00 - 22:00
Rocket science is thought to be hard because the maths of orbital mechanics gets in the way. This talk skips over the maths and looks at orbits, how spacecraft travel between planets and how they can park at Lagrange points.

AGM & Dr Steve Barrett - Exploring The Solar System I
2026-04-20 20:00 - 22:00
Annual General Meeting

Dr Lean-Nani Alconcel - Space Sustainability And Space Domain Awareness
2026-05-18 20:00 - 22:00

Workshops - Short Presentations By Members. View The Sun With A Solar Telescope
2026-06-15 20:00 - 22:00

Jeni Millard - To The South Pole - Modern Day Lunar Exploration
2026-07-20 20:00 - 22:00
