Next Meeting: Wednesday 25-Jan-2017

The next meeting will be the Society's 2017 Annual General meeting.  There will also be a talk on:  Astronomical Events of 2017. 

The AGM will be held on Wednesday 25-Jan-2017, as usual, at the Burley Hall, Waverton.

Please note the AGM date printed on the 2016 Membership Cards (27-Jan-2017) is incorrect.

Next Meeting: Friday 11-Nov-2016

The next meeting will be on Friday 11-Nov-2016.

Our guest speaker will be the renowned historian, Dr. Allan Chapman of Oxford university.  The title of his talk is:  Mary Somerville (1780-1872) and the World of Science. 

The meeting will be at the usual venue:  the Burley Memorial Hall, Waverton, CH3 7QN

Astromeet 2016

Leeds Astronomical Society will be holding Astromeet 2016 on Saturday 12th November

at the Clothworkers Hall in the School of Music, University of Leeds. Full details can be found at: http://www.astronomyleeds.org.uk/Astromeet.html.

Next Meeting: 26-Oct-16 The Appley Bridge Meteorite

The next Society meeting, on Wednesday 26-Oct-16, includes a talk on "The Appley Bridge Meteorite" by Russel Parry who has written a book on the subject.  This promises to be exciting and very interesting given the date it fell to earth and you might even get the chance to touch an object that, at 4,560 million years old, is one third the age of the universe.  You can view a flyer on the subject here:  161026.RussellParry.Poster.docx  [467 KB]

Please note that the meeting starts, as usual, at 7.30 PM, not as stated in the poster.

Rosetta's journey ends

The European Space Agency's historic Rosetta mission has concluded as planned, with the controlled impact onto Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko of the Rosetta spacecraft.  This does not mean the end of the mission as it will take years  to  analyse all the data it returned.  Read about it at the ESA website: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Mission_complete_Rosetta_s_journey_ends_in_daring_descent_to_comet