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.

Christmas Crackers Sheila Derges - "A visit to CERN" Sue Dipple - "The Thirty Metre Telescope" Dr Steve Barrett - "The Science of Santa"

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?