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Our meetings are now both in person AND online using Zoom. The Zoom meeting details will automatically be sent out to members. Visitors are always welcome, either online or in person. If you would like to join an online meeting, and don't have the Zoom details, then please contact John Waller, the website administrator. If you would like to join us in person, there's no need to contact us in advance, just turn up!
Upcoming Meetings
 | Tuesday 5th December, 2023 at 7:30pm | – | "Astronomy in the fast lane: cosmic rays and other sources of fast pulses", by Dr Justin Bray. (in person & online) |
 | Tuesday 19th December, 2023 at 7:30pm | – | Club Night - observing topics, monthly sky notes, multimedia, astronomical chat and observing the skies (weather permitting). (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 2nd January, 2024 at 7:30pm | – | Club Night - observing topics, monthly sky notes, multimedia, astronomical chat and observing the skies (weather permitting). (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 16th January, 2024 at 7:30pm | – | "Comparing volcanic activity on the ancient moon and present day Io", by Prof Lionel Wilson. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 6th February, 2024 at 7:30pm | – | Club Night - observing topics, monthly sky notes, multimedia, astronomical chat and observing the skies (weather permitting). (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 20th February, 2024 at 7:30pm | Р| "Toxic Titan", by Dr Sarah H̦rst. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 5th March, 2024 at 7:30pm | – | Club Night - observing topics, monthly sky notes, multimedia, astronomical chat and observing the skies (weather permitting). (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 19th March, 2024 at 7:30pm | – | "Pulsars", by Rene Breton. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 2nd April, 2024 at 7:30pm | – | Club Night - observing topics, monthly sky notes, multimedia, astronomical chat and observing the skies (weather permitting). (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 16th April, 2024 at 7:30pm | – | "Exoplanets - could smaller stars host planets", by Daniel Bayliss. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 7th May, 2024 at 7:30pm | – | Club Night - observing topics, monthly sky notes, multimedia, astronomical chat and observing the skies (weather permitting). (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 21st May, 2024 at 7:30pm | – | A talk by a visiting speaker. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 4th June, 2024 at 7:30pm | – | Club Night - observing topics, monthly sky notes, multimedia, astronomical chat and observing the skies (weather permitting). (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 18th June, 2024 at 7:30pm | – | "Weird stars - a round up of the more unusual types of stars", by Adam McMaster. (in person & online) |
Recent Meetings
| Tuesday 21st November, 2023 at 7:30pm | – | "Warping Space and Time", by Dr Steve Barrett. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 7th November, 2023 at 7:30pm | – | Club Night. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 17th October, 2023 at 7:30pm | – | "Gaia, The Billion Star mapping machine", by Prof Robin Jeffries. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 3rd October, 2023 at 7:30pm | – | Club Night. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 19th September, 2023 at 7:30pm | – | "Planetary Defence: From large observatories to your own backyard", by Sam Jackson. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 5th September, 2023 at 7:30pm | – | Club Night. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 15th August, 2023 at 7:30pm | – | "The James Webb Space Telescope: From Launch to first science", by Dr Pamela Klaassen. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 1st August, 2023 at 7:30pm | – | Club Night. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 18th July, 2023 at 7:30pm | – | "Higgs Bosons to High-throughput Computing: A Journey through particle physics", by Professor Jonathan Hays. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 4th July, 2023 at 7:30pm | – | Club Night. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 20th June, 2023 at 7:30pm | – | "Fuzzy Blobs: A Guide for the Perplexed.", by Steve Tonkin. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 6th June, 2023 at 7:30pm | – | Club Night. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 16th May, 2023 at 7:30pm | – | "Hidden Side of the Universe - Distant Starburst", by Dr Julie Wardlow. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 2nd May, 2023 at 7:30pm | – | Club Night. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 18th April, 2023 at 7:30pm | – | "Asterisms and Lost Constellations", by Les Fry. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 4th April, 2023 at 7:30pm | – | Club Night. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 21st March, 2023 at 7:30pm | – | "Beautiful Physics at the LHC and and future colliders", by Prof Nigel Watson. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 7th March, 2023 at 7:30pm | – | Club Night. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 21st February, 2023 at 7:30pm | – | "The Astronomers and the birth of Atomic Physics", by Christopher Taylor. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 7th February, 2023 at 7:30pm | – | Club Night. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 17th January, 2023 at 7:30pm | – | "Our place in the Universe", by Steve Warbis. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 3rd January, 2023 at 7:30pm | – | Club Night. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 20th December, 2022 at 7:30pm | – | Club Night. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 6th December, 2022 at 7:30pm | – | "The Fermi Paradox - Drake and Seager equations and their modifications", by Dr Martin Braddock. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 15th November, 2022 at 7:30pm | – | "Sounding the solar cycle with BiSON: the solar-stellar connection", by Prof. Bill Chaplin. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 1st November, 2022 at 7:30pm | – | Club Night. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 18th October, 2022 at 7:30pm | – | "The Science of Palomar Observatory", by Steven B. Flanders. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 4th October, 2022 at 7:30pm | – | Club Night. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 20th September, 2022 at 7:30pm | – | "Planets, Life & Panspermia", by James Fradgley. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 6th September, 2022 at 7:30pm | – | Club Night. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 16th August, 2022 at 7:30pm | – | "Listening to the Underverse: Gravitational-Wave Astronomy", by Andy Briggs. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 2nd August, 2022 at 7:30pm | – | Club Night. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 19th July, 2022 at 7:30pm | – | "Space Weather - protecting the earth from the ravages of the sun", by Sam Walton. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 5th July, 2022 at 7:30pm | – | Club Night. (in person & online) |
 | Tuesday 21st June, 2022 at 7:30pm | – | Video Night - Dark Star: The Invisible Universe of Brown Dwarfs. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 7th June, 2022 at 7:30pm | – | Club Night. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 17th May, 2022 at 7:30pm | – | "The JUICE mission to Jupiter and Ganymede", by Dr. Chris Arridge. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 3rd May, 2022 at 7:30pm | – | Club Night. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 19th April, 2022 at 7:30pm | – | "Pioneering women of the BAA", by Mike Frost. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 5th April, 2022 at 7:30pm | – | Club Night. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 15th March, 2022 at 7:30pm | – | "NASA Shuttle Recovery Team", by Colonel Christopher J. Gunderson USAF. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 1st March, 2022 at 7:30pm | – | Club Night. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 15th February, 2022 at 7:30pm | – | "Gamma Ray Bursts - an astronomical detective story", by Prof Andrew Norton. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 1st February, 2022 at 7:30pm | – | Club Night. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 18th January, 2022 at 7:30pm | – | "Amateur spectroscopy", by Hugh Allen. (in person & online) |
| Tuesday 4th January, 2022 at 7:30pm | – | Club Night. (in person & online) |
Meetings history back to 1994.